To help you succeed with gluten-free baking, here are some tips from our book Morning Glory’s Farm Food: Stories from the Fields, Recipes from the Kitchen.

• Bring all ingredients to room temperature before mixing.
• Make sure your batter isn’t cold when it goes into the oven.
• If batter is cooler than room temperature, allow it to rest next to the preheating oven to come up to room temperature.
• Too much moisture can make for a gummy product. If tea breads and cakes are coming out gummy, or falling after baking:
  • Check the oven temperature. Some ovens never quite reach the proper temperature.  If this is the case, bake the items for longer or increase the temperature setting.
  • If oven temperature is not the issue, try reducing the liquid in batters by a tablespoon or two.
  • When making gluten-free zucchini bread, pressing out the moisture prevents the loaf from becoming gummy in the center.
• Humidity can cause flours to absorb moisture from the air.

Photo by Alison Shaw.