Honestly, I haven’t done the math to see how much cheaper this is than Pamela’s. I buy my flours in bulk on Amazon.com using Subscribe & Save to get even better deals. Surely it has to be cheaper.
Better yet, it doesn’t have any baking soda/powder, dry buttermilk powder, salt, or anything else that an all-purpose flour blend wouldn’t have.
And the best of all: It tastes amazing. I’m not a fan of Bob’s Red Mill’s use of garbanzo bean flour, as healthy as I’m sure it is compared to all the starches in Pamela’s. But Pamela’s just tastes better. And I don’t use this flour much. So when I do, I want it to taste better. 🙂
This mix makes 12 cups. I whisk it all together in a huge bowl and store it in a big plasic (yes, I know purists only use glass) air tight container.
Fake Pamela’s Gluten Free All-Purpose Flour Mix
- 2 1/2 cups brown rice flour
- 3 1/2 cups white rice flour
- 2 cups almond meal or almond flour
- 1 1/2 cups tapioca starch
- 1 1/2 cups sweet rice flour
- 1 cup potato starch
- 2 TBS Xanthum or guar gum
- 1 1/3 cup cultured buttermilk (or dry/powdered milk)
- 1/3 cup baking powder
- 1/4 cup baking soda
- 2 tablespoons sea salt
I’m recently gf and really excited to try this out! I’ve looked everywhere for sweet rice flour around here, but maybe i need to check amazon. I’m off to check out your other gf recipes!
If not for bread, what types of recipes do you make with this flour?
I should say not to use it in yeast breads. Non-yeast recipes are perfect. Banana bread, cookies, muffins, pancakes… Those are just some of what I use this flour blend in.
I buy my gluten free flours on amazon in bulk using subscribe and save. Easier than going to all the different stores to try to find them all!
Do you use almond meal or almond flour? And do you buy that on Amazon as well, or make your own? We buy our almond flour at Honeyville Grains, and it’s still very pricey (though much better than other sources). Thanks for the recipe, going to try it out! We love Pamela’s, but it is just SO expensive!! I’m going to try your Amazon idea as well. 🙂
One more question! Do you have any brands to recommend when you purchase on Amazon? I’m trying to figure out how to use the method you recommended – there are lots of choices! 🙂
Most of what I get off Amazon is Bob’s Red Mill. You can usually find that brand with subscribe and save. 🙂
I’m not quite sure what(if any) the difference is, but what I use says almond meal. It is one of the more expensive ingredients in the mix, that’s for sure! But it’s also a really healthy one, unlike all the starches. 🙂
Almond meal is whole ground almonds (with skins), almond flour is blanches almonds (skins removed) that are ground. Almond flour produced a better quality baked gluten/grain free product, rather than just almond meal.
I’ve been looking for a ‘copy cat’ recipe of Pamela’s baking mix and found your blog. I added it all up using products from amazon.com using subscribe and save, using Bob’s Red mill products for everything but the buttermilk powder (I used the saco brand from amazon) and the sea salt (I used redmonds brand), and this is what I got….your mix including the ingredients to make it into a baking mix equals 14 cups which comes to $14.72 or 15.77 for 15 cups of mix. Pamela’s baking mix in the 4lb bags from amazon on subscribe and save is 15 cups per bag and comes to $15.25. It is actually cheaper to buy the Pamela’s baking mix than making your own. Now….if you are grinding your own flour (which is easy to do in a blender like a vitamix) the cost would be MUCH cheaper. And sourcing your almond flour from HoneyVille in 25lb quantities would take an additional $2 off per batch of mix. By grinding your own brown rice, white rice, and sweet rice flours and buying Honeyville almond flour, you could get the price down to about $10 per batch. But if you are only buying the flours off of amazon, then it would be cheaper just to buy the premade mix.
You are the BEST, how on earth did you come up with this? Really, did you just guess, I was so happy to find this, because I was seriously going to start trying to make my own. I just tried Pamela’s pancake mix & was SO thrilled with the texture and taste … even my hubby liked it (finally a GF recipe I can make for the whole family – I usually have to do two different ones.) I haven’t tried it for muffins or cookies, but so excited to. I’m so like you, the Garbanzo flour/BRM mix… don’t care how healthy, it was just gross, I thought I’d just have to be stuck with that, but since finding Pamela’s and now this (which I’m sure really is much more economical). I just can’t thank you enough – really! THANK YOU. How did you figure it out? I am new to all this. 🙂
I have been using Pamela’s for almost a year now. We LOVE it! SO I can’t wait to try this and see if it saves me money. I have used her Bread mix, and it makes great bread and rolls etc.. is this recipe based off the pancake mix>?
I am so excited to try this recipe. I love Pamelas mixes, not the price. I don’t know the difference between the regular mix and the baking mix. For example, which mix would I use to make pizza crust? I’m thinking the first . Thanks!
I am so glad to have found this I made a great cake with Pamela’s baking mix but then my whole family complained about stomach problems. I didn’t know if it was the mix but I tried it again with her peanut butter cookie recipe and a danish recipe online and everyone was complaining about an upset stomach. It performs great but something in it does not agree with my family. I like to try the flour combo without the buttermilk culture and xanthan gum. I hope that will cure the stomach problem. I have used xanthan gum in baking but alway try to half the amount in most recipes. It is considered a laxative so that could be the culprit but I have never used buttermilk culture only the fresh kind so maybe that will make a difference. I love that it has almond meal to boost the protein. Thanks for posting
You can find it very inexpensively at Asian food markets sold as glutinous rice flour (really, glutinous is a translation, there is not gluten). I buy 12 oz bags for about $1.30 each.
Thank you for posting the copy-cat Pamela’s baking mix! I get my flours in bulk and save a lot by using http://www.azurestandard.com. I have used the mix a couple of times and find I have a strong taste of baking powder (salty) and baking soda (salty/metallic taste). I have even omitted the salt and still have the same problem. Has anyone else found this? If so, has anyone resolved this problem without lessening the leavening ingredients? Just curious. Thanks!!
Thanks for posting this ! I wanted to know how to
Make this mixture for my husband and I since we first tried Pamela’s.
Hi! I so glad that I found you! I wanted to know if this flour is best for baking bread? There are two kinds of flour one is baking flour and artisan flour. I need your input. Many thanks!
I was not only pleased with this recipe and the raves of the pancakes, but that I had all of the ingredients in my cabinet. 🙂 Thank you so much for posting this! I was a hero this morning after having forgotten to pick up the much desired “P’s Pancake and Baking mix.” I prefer this recipe and think I will do this from now on.