Baked to Perfection: Winner of the Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards 2022

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tsp xanthan gum (If your gluten free flour blend already contains xanthan gum, reduce the amount of added xanthan gum to ¾ tsp.) If your pie dough (and therefore the butter in the dough) gets too warm, the butter will melt and mix with the rest of the ingredients while you’re handling and rolling it – that is, before the pie crust actually enters the oven. This will result in a greasy, oily, hard baked pie crust with no flakiness in sight.

The book actually gives you the option to use either: I’ve tested most of the recipes both with popular store-bought blends available in the UK *and* with two custom DIY blends you can mix from individual gluten-free flours. Add the cornmeal, sugar, salt, baking powder to a medium size bowl and whisk together. Add the egg, butter, and buttermilk and whisk well. Stir in the creamed corn and the green chiles. Do you use store-bought gluten-free flour blends or do you mix your own? Will I need lost of different gluten-free flours to make the recipes?While baked goods can be healthy, goods that use quality ingredients are definitely a better choice than the alternative. If you’re looking for the kind of baked goods you can feel good about, why not stop by our bakery? You’ll be able to eat something made with fresh ingredients. Our Baked Goods Are Affordable Tip 2: The amount of water listed in the recipe works perfectly for a wide range of shop-bought gluten free flour blends, as well as for the DIY blend that you can mix yourself recommended in this recipe. If you use a very different blend (with a very different composition), you might need to adjust the amount of water. Yes! You can make the pie dough ahead of time (including the lamination) and then wrap it tightly in cling film and keep in the the fridge or freezer until needed. tbsp caster/superfine or granulated sugar (If you want to use the pie crust in a savoury recipe, you can reduce the sugar to 1 tsp.)

And because I’m a huge science nerd (with a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry, that’s rather to be expected!), I’ve also included simple scientific explanations for WHY the recipes actually work. I find the science of baking, and especially gluten free baking, endlessly fascinating – and I hope you’ll love those sciency tidbits as much as I loved writing (and illustrating) them.

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Treating yourself to baked goods shouldn’t be all that expensive. You should be able to find baked goods that you can afford. We are very careful about the prices that we use at our bakery. We want to make sure that everyone that visits us can afford to try something. Couldn’t possibly guess that it’s gluten free! I know I’m repeating this constantly when it comes to my gluten free recipes, but you truly can’t tell that this pie crust is gluten free. In fact, I’d go even further and say that it’s BETTER than a wheat-based pie crust because you don’t need to worry about developing the gluten, so the pie crust comes out of the oven more tender and crisper than the gluten-containing counterpart. Then, rotate the dough by 90 degrees so that the “open ends” are closest and farthest from you and repeat the letter fold. Baked to Perfection contains all the recipes and scientific understanding you need to bake anything gluten-free, and for it to work perfectly every time. Katarina has produced a beautiful and inspiring book that makes me want to head for the kitchen and switch on the oven! A magnificent achievement -- Juliet Sear, author of The Cake Decorating Bible