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Why Nicole’s Best Multipurpose Gluten Free Flour?

Nicole’s Best Multipurpose is a premium gluten free flour blend from best-selling gluten free author, blogger, and baker Nicole Hunn, creator of Gluten Free on a Shoestring blog and cookbooks.

Created for precision gluten free baking, Nicole's Best is a flexible blend with countless applications in baking and cooking. Use it to make everything from the most delicate pastries and crepes to the heartiest yeast bread, and everything in between.

Back in 2004, when Nicole’s son was diagnosed, all the gluten free recipes available were fussy and hard to follow, and made foods that were “good, for gluten free.” When she discovered you could use a high-quality gluten free flour blend to make baked goods that even gluten-eaters would enjoy, she was inspired to develop her own recipes.

Nearly 20 years later, Nicole’s Best was born.

About Our Gluten Free Flour

Our blend has the highest quality ingredients, with truly superfinely ground and sifted flours in a tested and perfected a proprietary blend of 6 gluten free ingredients in ideal proportions.

Unlike other blends of its kind, Nicole’s Best is flexible enough to use in simple, delicate recipes like pancakes and hearty enough to use in yeast bread recipes that need extra binders.

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Package of Nicole's Best gluten-free multipurpose flour blend

Nicole's Best Usage Guide for using xanthan gum with gluten-free flour: For best results, add the following amounts of xanthan gum to your recipes when using Nicole's Best. (Amount per cup) Muffins and quick breads: 1/2tsp, drop cookies: 1/4tsp, yeast bread: 1tsp, cookies (rolled and cut out) 3/8tsp, rolled dough (fresh pasta etc): 5/8tsp, cake/cupcakes: heaping 1/4tsp, pastry: heaping 1/2 tsp, pancakes: 1/4 tsp, pizza: 1/2 tsp, rolled cakes (pumpkin roll, swiss roll) 1 1/8tsp

Xanthan Gum and Gluten Free Baking

Unless you are making a recipe that is meant to be made without any binders, you will need to add xanthan gum to the recipe, since Nicole's Best does not contain any. This allows precision in baking, which leads to the highest quality baked goods.

Please use the Nicole's Best Usage Table as a guide. You can purchase enough xanthan gum for a 5 pound bag of Nicole's Best here individually, or as a bundle with the bag of flour. Here is a downloadable link of the Nicole's Best Usage Guide for your convenience. It will open in a new window on your device, and you can download it from there and save it.

When To Use Nicole’s Best

Because Nicole will always be a recipe developer at heart, she will never claim that any multi- or all-purpose gluten free flour blend can perform well in conventional recipes as a 1 to 1 replacement for conventional wheat flour.

Great gluten free baking calls for recipes developed from the ground-up for the special needs of even an ideal gluten free flour blend such as Nicole’s Best.

Nicole has tested this blend in every single category of recipe on the Gluten Free on a Shoestring blog. With it, she’s been able to turn out gluten free baked goods that are indistinguishable from their gluten-containing counterparts, like:

Cake and cupcakes
Breads: biscuits, bagels, buns etc.
Pizza and Pasta
Pie Crusts
Cookies
Breakfasts like quiche, pancakes, crepes
Dinners: breaded chicken, pasta, dumplings
As a thickener in sauces and gravies
Vegan dishes

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Nicole’s Best Gluten Free Multipurpose Flour

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Gluten Free Baking Essentials

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Nicole’s Best is a gluten free flour that can be used in breads, pastries, sauces and pancakes. It is best when paired with Xanthan Gum, a thickening agent and stabilizer essential for optimal results in gluten free baking.

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