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Easy Homemade Gluten-Free Cake Mix

August 12, 2013 By Elise New 9 Comments This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy for more info.

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You know what I miss about cooking with wheat? Cake mix. I know, I know, not healthy. But it’s so handy! Cake mix makes whipping up a quick desert easy. We need an alternative for gluten-free recipes, right?

easy gluten-free cake mix 

As always, pre-packaged, gluten-free cake mixes are out of my budget, but I finally got fed up with missing out on all the great desserts that can be made by dumping cake mix in with something (like butter ). All the cake mix recipes in my cook books called for things like powdered vanilla and egg substitutes. Who has that kind of thing in their pantry? Well, I don’t. 

Finally, I decided to do some tweaking and made a cake mix using nothing but stuff that ordinary people (or at least people like me) have on hand. I’ve been really happy with it. I used it for those chocolate waffles I mentioned earlier, a peach cake, and a few other things. They all turned out great! 

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Easy Homemade Gluten-Free Cake Mix

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Ingredients

  • 5 1/4 cups GF flour mix
  • 4 t. baking powder
  • 1 t. baking soda
  • 2 t. salt 
  • 2 2/3 cup sugar
  • 2 1/2 t. guar gum

Instructions

  1. Mix all ingredients together and store in a tight-lidded container. 
  2. Need a few recipes to help you a feel for your cake mix? here a go!

Fool-proof Yellow Cake: 2 cups cake mix, 2 eggs, 1/3 cup mayonnaise, 2/3 cup sour cream, and 2 t. vanilla. Beat together for 2 minutes. Turn into 8×8 pan (or equivalent) and bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes

Chocolate cake: add 1/3 cup cocoa, and 1/4 cup milk (more or less – the cocoa makes the batter thicker) to above recipe. 

 

More Recipes using this cake mix:

Fruit crumble

Chocolate Cake

Chocolate Mug Cake

Lemon Cake

Enjoy!

 

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  1. Jen says

    January 28, 2019 at 5:26 pm

    Wow! Fantastic! I’m so impressed! And it’s so cost effective! I can’t tell you how much I appreciate this (my kids too 😉 ) Thank you!

    ★★★★★

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    • Elise says

      January 31, 2019 at 3:38 pm

      So glad you liked it!

      Reply
  2. Michelle says

    August 31, 2019 at 1:07 pm

    Is there a replacement if we don’t want to use mayo?

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  3. lee snell says

    January 22, 2015 at 3:41 pm

    how long will this stay fresh?

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  4. Elise says

    January 22, 2015 at 3:46 pm

    I’ve stored it in an air-tight container for a couple months at a time, but if you want to keep it very long, I’d suggest keeping it in the freezer.

    Reply

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