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14 flours. 140 recipes. 0 glutens. ALL DESSERT.
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Alternative Baker isn’t just another gluten-free cookbook.
While most gluten-free recipes try to replicate all-purpose flour with refined starches and sketchy gums, Alternative Baker celebrates the unique tastes and textures of 14 gluten-free flours, from buckwheat flour to almond flour to sorghum and coconut.
Have you indulged in a golden corn flour biscuit that tastes like sunshine, or experienced the earthy sweetness of chestnut flour? Did you know teff flour smells of malted chocolate milk, and mesquite flour of freshly-baked gingerbread? Set aside your bland all-purpose flour to celebrate the compelling flavors of a wide array of nut- and grain-based alternative flours that are packed with flavor and are good for you, too; from peak-of-season fruit pies nestled in an irresistibly crunchy crust, to cookies that positively melt in your mouth.
Alternative Baker: Reinventing Dessert with Gluten-Free Grains and Flours – 100+ recipes featuring corn, oat, chestnut, almond, buckwheat, sorghum, and other gluten-free flours will fill your kitchen with sweet treats that burst with flavor every month of the year.
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- Amazon U.S., UK, Canada , and Australia
- Barnes and Noble
- Indie Bound
- Books-a-Million
- Powell’s
- GFF: Gluten-Free Forever Magazine (signed copy!)
- anywhere books are sold
What you’ll find in Alternative Baker:
- Recipes for every baking level, from “flour child” to “grainiac”
- 92 beautifully photographed base recipes, many with seasonal variations, for a total of 140 recipes
- 95% brand-new recipes, with a few favorites adapted and reshot from The Bojon Gourmet
- All-natural, from-scratch gluten-free recipes for a wide variety of diets, including vegan, nut-free, and dairy-free; no gums ever
- US (cups, teaspoons) and Metric (grams, milliliters) measurements
- Everything you want to know about gluten-free whole-grain and nut-based flours including shopping and storage tips, nutritional information, and flavor profiles
- Tips and tricks on how to bake like a boss
Chapters include:
- Breakfast Desserts
- Cakes
- Tarts
- Pie
- Rustic Fruit Desserts
- Cookies and Bars
- Custards, Puddings and Spoon Desserts
Foodies are loving Alternative Baker:
“Alanna has rescued gluten-free baking from the pasty, gritty clutches of white rice flour! Her recipes have a pastry chef ’s sensibility, but they overflow with the generosity and warmth of home baking. This book will make you run to the pantry to see what you can bake first, whether you happen to be gluten free or not.”
―Megan Scott and John Becker, bestselling authors of Joy of Cooking and JoyOfCooking.com
“Alanna is such a gifted baker, recipe writer and food photographer. For gluten-free eaters who love to bake, this cookbook is a must.”
―Dana Shultz, author of Minimalist Baker’s Everyday Cooking and MinimalistBaker.com
“I want to eat everything in Alanna Taylor-Tobin’s beautiful book, Alternative Baker. And the best news? With these gorgeous gluten-free recipes created by a former pastry chef, I can! I’ll be baking these treats with delight.”
―Shauna James Ahern, author of Gluten-Free Girl Every Day and GlutenFreeGirl.com
“Like alternative baking pioneers Kim Boyce and Alice Medrich, Alanna Taylor-Tobin shows that treats baked with off-the-beaten-path flours aren’t just a boon for the gluten free, but taste richer, more distinctive and often just plain better, too.”
―Kristen Miglore, author of Food52 Genius Recipes and Creative Director of Food52.com
Press:
- No-Bake Cookie Bars with Chocolate, Cherries and Chia Seeds| FoodieCrush
- Can Gluten-Free Mean More, Not Less? | Edible East Bay
- Cookbook Review: Discover Alternative Flours and Grains | Tampa Bay Times
- 19 Cookbooks We Can’t Wait to Cook From This Fall | Mind Body Green
- Buckwheat Orange Double Chocolate Cookies | fix feast flair
- These Cherry + Chocolate Oat Bars Are The Perfect Dessert/Breakfast Hybrid | mindbodygreen
- Triple Coconut Tres Leches Cake with Honey-Vanilla Summer Fruit | The Pig and Quill
- Ginger Goat Cheese Cheesecake with Honey Roasted Figs & Hazelnuts + Alternative Baker Cookbook | Snixy Kitchen
- Coconut Vanilla Chiffon Cake – Alternative Baker
- Triple Coconut “Tres Leches” Cake with Mango & Lime | Vegetarian ‘Ventures
- Teff Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies | Salted Plains
- Strawberry Raspberry Rhubarb Cutout Pie | Good on Paper
- No-Bake Oat Bars with Sour Cherries, Hemp & Chocolate | The First Mess
- Tart Cherry, Chocolate & Hempseed No-Bake Oat Bars | Kale and Caramel
- Lemon Ricotta Shortcakes with Peaches and Mascarpone Cream | HonestlyYum
- Salted Grapefruit Double Chocolate Buckwheat Cookies | The Briny
- Buckwheat Double Chocolate Cookies | Cookie + Kate
- Buckwheat Double Chocolate Cookies | Apt. 2B Baking
- Gluten-Free Buckwheat Chocolate Cookies | Healthy Seasonal Recipes
- Sorghum Pear Oven Pancake | Naturally Ella
- Pistachio, Lime & Matcha Snowballs | Emma K. Morris
- Cherry Chestnut Chocolate Chip Cookies | Tending the Table
- Chestnut Brownies | Chocolate + Marrow
- Pumpkin Cranberry Nut + Seed Loaf | Dishing Up the Dirt
- Vanilla Bourbon Cake | The Vanilla Bean Blog
- Strawberry Swirl Biscuits | The Pancake Princess
- Pumpkin Cranberry Nut Loaf | Foolproof Living
- Chocolate Cranberry Pecan Tart | Floating Kitchen
- Teff Oatmeal Cookies with Whiskey Currants | Vanilla and Bean
- Baked Grits with Sweet Corn and Fall Fruit | Brooklyn Supper
- Apple + Marionberry Marzipan Crumble | Hungry Girl Por Vida
- Alanna’s Scrumptious Chestnut Brownies | The Clever Carrot
- Heartbeet Kitchen | Life-Changing GF Biscuits
- Chocolate Zucchini Cake with Matcha Frosting | Foodness Gracious
- Maple Orange Amaranth Granola | Hummingbird High
- Matcha Lime Snowballs | Dessert for Two
- Fig and Olive Oil Cake {vegan} | Harmony Kitchen
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Have a question about the book? Shoot me an email: agoodie@gmail.com!
Happy alternative baking, from my kitchen to yours!
Me and all my friends that have my creation love your recipe “maple bourbon pecan pie”. I add 6 oz Scharffen Berger 62% Cacao Semi-Sweet Baking Chunks and bake only to an internal temp of low 150s degrees F so it remains somewhat liquidy.
I’m looking to try the “nibby chocolate chip oatmeal cookies”, and wondered about the baking sheets. Should I purchase something like these?
https://www.nordicware.com/catalog/product/view/id/2242/s/baker-s-half-sheet/category/48/
https://smile.amazon.com/Nordic-Ware-Natural-Aluminum-Commercial/dp/B0049C2S32/ref=sr_1_1?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1545840461&sr=1-1&keywords=baking+sheet&refinements=p_89%3ANordic+Ware#customerReviews
I’m thinking about adding more nuts (a toasted mix of almonds, pecans and walnuts) and doubling the dark chocolate and nibs. What do you think?
Again, I love your recipes!
Kris
So glad you’re liking my recipes! For cookies, it’s nice to have rimless cookie sheets, but those half sheet pans will work too – they’re very versatile! Feel free to play around with the cookie recipe and let me know what you try. :)
I would love to recreate them all! I’m really excited to make the desserts. It’s so kind of you to post this.
I love to buy cookbooks because I love cooking for my family so much. My niece loves to bake so I will share this to her too.
Alanna, thank you so much for this cookbook. I’ve probably bought twenty gluten free baking books, and yours is the first that helps me produce baked goods I’m proud to serve. I finally feel like I’ve regained my baking life. You are the best!
Aw I’m so glad you’re enjoying the book! Thanks very much for the sweet words. If you felt like popping that review onto Amazon it would be so helpful to other bakers looking for a GF cookbook. Either way, thanks very much for taking the time to write!
Your pie crust is the first gluten-free recipe that doesn’t feel and taste like I make a cookie instead of a pie crust! It is utterly delicious and easier to make than actual pie dough!
I did substitute butter with vegan butter because of dietary needs (used Miyoko’s vegan butter) and vinegar instead of buttermilk. It turned out spectacular!
I love Miyoko’s butter! So glad it worked well here and that you loved the crust. Thanks a bunch for the note!
Made the blackberry crisp frozen yogurt today but used Jeni Britton Bauer’s vanilla ice cream recipe instead. I purchased blackberries yesterday at farmers market that were almost the size of my thumb so I put them to good use in this recipe ;-) It was so good my husband says it needs to be in the regular recipe rotation! We enjoyed the lemon in the recipe – it added a brightness to it. Maybe peaches would work well too? Am thoroughly enjoying your cookbook!
That sounds delicious! Love the idea of peach crisp fro yo / ice cream. DO IT!
I’m excited to try your dessert recipes. I thought I saw somewhere on your site that we could grind rolled oats to make oat flour. Would this change the final product since rolled oats are steamed prior to rolling while oat groats for oat flour are kiln toasted but not steamed? My co-op sometimes doesn’t carry oat flour in the bulk section and I’d like to reduce my plastic (I re-use containers for bulk purchases) and not buy a package of oat flour and was hoping to grind rolled oats for oat flour. Thanks!
Kudos to you for trying to reduce plastic waste! That is so admirable. Grinding your own flour might change the recipes a bit for the reason you noted, or due to differences in the fineness of the grind compared with the flour I used to develop the recipe. But I think it should work well enough for most recipes. Cookies would be the hardest since they’re so sensitive to slight changes. Please let me know if you experiment!