Gluten-free Baking (Honeybuns): The no-fuss gluten cookbook: with muffins, brownies, cakes and traybakes

8 reviews for Gluten-free Baking (Honeybuns): The no-fuss gluten cookbook: with muffins, brownies, cakes and traybakes

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   Ula – 21 September 2024

   Best gluten free cakes I’ve ever had!
   I gave up gluten some time ago and I thought I’d have to give up baking, because no recipes seemed to come close to the gluten versions. This book was just another one in a string of purchases and initially I didn’t think it was a good one.The recipes are overwhelming and intimidating, I had a cupboard of various nut and other non-gluten flours, so I thought I was well stocked, but after scanning a few recipes I realized I can’t do a single one because I don’t even know what the ingredients are (although if you know what sorghum is you may be better off than me!). It was put on a shelf and forgotten for a long while until I had to come up with a nice cake to serve to family who don’t necessarily know what gluten is and would not appreciate my less-than-impressive gluten free baking repertoire. I went back to the book and found a recipe that didn’t call for so many odd ingredients and with a bit of tweaking pulled off a cake everyone wanted the recipe for – the best carrot cake I’ve ever had, gluten free or not.Since then I’ve tried several recipes and bought several odd and occassionally expensive ingredients, but I think it was worth it. The initial investment pays off with beautiful, rich and impressive cakes (and muffins and tarts). I have not used a different book for baking since that first carrot cake and have hardly even felt the need to browse for anything new to add to my vast cookbook collection. The ingredients are well laid out, the decriptions are clear and you even get additional tips on serving for most recipes.If what may initially look like complexity – at the end of the day everything proves easy to make – and the need for specialty shopping do not put you off, buy this book!

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   An Amazon Customer – 21 September 2024

   A very useful book
   This is a very useful book with lots of tempting recipes and helpful guidance on ingredients and where to obtain them. A must for those on a gluten free diet or for a baker just wanting to try something different.

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   pixie – 21 September 2024

   Really good recipes
   Bought this as my sister has Gluten intolerance and I think this could be very useful. The recipes are very straight forward and family friendly. It can’t be much fun feeling excluded from the family treats! These will appeal to everyone.Very good if you cook for a School bake sale or village hall as there are so many people now suffering from gluten intolerance.The price was very good, the photographs in the book are mouthwatering. A nice book to add to your collection…you never know when you may need it!

4. 

   Elizabeth – 21 September 2024

   Honeybuns gluten free baking
   Excellent recipes in a well presented format. Illustrated with full page photographs which is always helpful in order to know how a bake should look. Some photographs though seem to be for enhancing the aesthetics of the book and padding, eg. teapot spouts and cups, a page that would have been better utilized in showing a recipe whose end bake has not been illustrated eg.Toffee topped almond and rhubarb cake or Bumble Barrow fruit cake. Overall having baked the courgette cake which had no illustration as how it should present, the end result was indeed very tasty and with a comprehensive range of bakes included in this book, it does gently persuade you into trying another recipe. I would recommend this book.

5. 

   Mrs Vincent – 21 September 2024

   Depends how much you bake
   I’m an occasional GF baker for my mother and i bought this book to expand on the other GF recipes i have. the book itself seems well written, though i would personally like an illustration for each recipe otherwise i just can’t picture what it’s meant to look like.Before you buy this book, how much baking are you going to be doing?If you’re going to be doing a lot and very frequently then it will be a super addition to your kitchen as you will be buying a lot of ingredients that are not cheap nor easy to find (depending on where you live in the UK). so if you will be baking lots then you will use the ingredients up.If like me you are more of an infrequent baker maybe once or twice a month then I would think twice.While there are explanations about what you can substitute and how, for me, i just want to pick up a book and bake.I also dont want a cupboard full of ingredients that I will only ever use in recipes from this book – sourghum flour, ground flax seed and many more. I just dont see these sorts of ingredients in other GF baking books, so i dont think i will be baking anything from this book as the ingredients will hardly get used, which is an expensive waste.If you’ll be baking loads then i’m sure you will love this book as there is a recipe for every taste and preference!Good book but just not practical for me.If you want a practical book for occasional GF baking try The Gluten Free Baker by Hannah Miles (standard GF flour used for all recipes!)

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   Mrs. Helen M. Williams – 21 September 2024

   What a success Gluten Free Baking with delicious light cake
   Ordered this book as i am making a wedding cake for a bride who has requested that one tier of a 4 tier cake would be Gluten Free Lime & Coconut. What a success, wonderful recipe. Having never baked anything gluten free before i think i was expecting a heavy sponge. How wrong was i? its wonderful. Will need a third layer for height for the wedding cake, but otherwise perfect. I purchased the sorghum flour from an asian supermarket everything else was readily available at my local health food store. Thankful to have found this lovely recipe cant wait to try some of the other recipes

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   TedMilne – 21 September 2024

   More pictures of Me required.
   Lovely book. Emma really does have a natural flair for writing. Together with her Husband Matt, they make a great team – proven by the fact that they have been able to run a successful bakery in the heart of Rural Dorset for a decade now. What a lovely book.On the downside, there are no pictures of me in it. I was expecting at least 3 with some sort of write up on how awesome I am. Imagine my disappointment when I found out there weren’t any. No mention of my incredible athletic ability back in the late 80’s / early 90’s – no mention of how good I am on Bobs air rifle either. Really looking forward to at least 3 photos and a mention in the Savory book!!!!

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   Annie – 21 September 2024

   There are some very good recipes in the book but I was disappointed that there weren’t very many savoury baked items to make. Loved the bread recipes.