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Flour Blend
Melanie Lynn’s Flour Blend Recipe
Measuring Flour for Fabulous Texture

Only 4 ingredients!
No gums, soy or nuts or modified ingredients

Recipes
Banana Bread - bake it as Banana Muffins too!
Best Ever Gluten-Free Pancakes

Resources
Links to instructional videos, tools I use, and where I buy
flour.

 Melanie Lynn’s Flour
Blend Recipe
4 cups brown rice flour
1 cup potato starch
½ cup sweet rice flour
2 Tablespoons coconut flour

The easiest way to mix this flour blend is to mix

the coconut flour, sweet rice flour and potato
starch first. Make sure you can no longer


distinguish any of the individual flour.

Now mix in the brown rice flour. Using a round-

bottomed bowl will make sure that flours do not
get caught in the “corners” of the bowl. Stir all of
the flours together until fully combined.

Measuring flour for
fabulous texture


Start by watching How to Mix and Measure
Melanie Lynn’s Flour Blend


gluten-free flours they compact rather than

becoming light and airy. Sifting is actually
counter productive in this instance.
2. Gently spoon the flour into the measuring
cup until slightly mounded. Make sure there
are no voids around the edges of the cup.
3. Level. Using the back end of a knife or any

 other straight edge scrape the excess flour off
Spoon and level your flour for moist, soft the top of the measuring cup. That is how you
baked treats. can ensure wonderful, soft and moist baked
1. Fluff the flour. Rice flour can become even treats every time!

more compacted than wheat flour. I like
whisking the flour before I measure it to make
sure I don’t scoop anything too dense. Do not
sift the flour. Unlike wheat flour, when you sift
 corn, soy or wheat. The resulting slurry is then
Only 4 ingredients! dried, often by means of isopropyl alcohol and
then powdered. While animal studies have not
Brown rice flour is the base of the flour blend.
shown any significant harmful effects from
It is made from whole rice kernels making it a
consuming xanthan gum it has been shown to
whole grain flour. That outer layer of rice is a
be a digestive irritant. For those of us avoiding
great source of the trace mineral manganese. It
gluten, it is fairly safe to assume digestive
also supplies our bodies with selenium,
upset is something we are trying to avoid. So
phosphorus, copper, magnesium, many B
being able to use an ingredient as simple as
vitamins, iron, dietary fiber and even essential
sweet rice flour means happy tummies.
fatty acids.

Potato starch is nothing more than the starch

Sweet white rice flour is used to help bind the
from potatoes. The argument could be made
ingredients together thanks to its very sticky
that eating pure starch is not healthy for you
nature. When you eliminate gluten you lose
and it is true that it really should not be
that part of the flour that helps hold everything
consumed in large quantities. But if you are
together. Many gluten free recipes call for
going to make any gluten free treats you will
xanthan gum as a binder. Xanthan gum is a
need something to hold it together. This is an
largely indigestible polysaccharide produced
ingredient I can produce in my own kitchen by
by a bacteria called Xanthomonas Camestris. It
placing shredded potatoes in water and
is produced by a fermentation process where
allowing the starch to settle on the bottom of
the growth medium is typically derived from
the dish. I do purchase my potato starch but
knowing it is something that simple and produce in my kitchen and a great addition to
something I have extracted in a pinch, brings these recipes.
peace of mind.

Coconut flour is high in fiber making it very

absorbent. It is a great addition to these
recipes as rice flour needs heat to really open
up and absorb the liquid in the batter. The high
fiber content in coconut flour has also been
found to have a glycemic lowering effect.
Meaning that the sweeteners in these recipes
will not have the same impact on your blood
sugar as you would get with refined flours. It is
a good source of medium chain fatty acids and
has been shown to lower LDL levels. So if it is
such a power house why not use it as the main
flour? That is actually where my gluten free
baking adventure began. Using coconut flour
alone makes a very dense and often dry final
product and you will always have that very
distinct coconut flavor present. Again, coconut
flour is a whole food ingredient that I can
Banana Bread Stir in flour, baking powder and baking soda until
well incorporated
Banana bread is a classic that every cook needs in their
While mixer is still running, drizzle the melted
repertoire. Share this liberally with friends and family - they
coconut oil into batter. Continue mixing until well
will never know it’s gluten free.
incorporated.
Ingredients:
Fill bread pans or muffin cups with batter no more
4 spotted bananas
than ⅔ full and bake.
1½ cup brown sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
Bake in a 350F degree oven for 40-45 minutes for
1 Tablespoon cinnamon
bread and 18-20 minutes for muffins. Cook until
1 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
golden brown on the edges and cooked through in
¼ teaspoon salt
the center. Insert toothpick in the center and
6 eggs, room temperature
remove. If it comes out clean the center is cooked
3 cups Melanie Lynn’s Flour Blend
through.
2 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
Bread will release best if you let it sit in the pan for
⅓ cup coconut oil, melted
a few minutes before removing. If it sticks, use a
knife inserted around the edge to loosen.

Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350F
Grease 2 loaf pans and set aside. 

In a large mixing bowl add bananas, brown sugar,

vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt. Mix until
smooth
Add in eggs, mix.
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Best Ever Gluten-Free
Pancakes
Ingredients:
9 eggs, beaten
1 ¼ cup canned coconut milk (stir before
measuring)
1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
3 Tablespoons sugar
3 cups Melanie Lynn’s flour blend
1 Tablespoon baking powder
¾ teaspoon salt
¼ cup melted coconut oil
incorporated, approximately 1 minute *(see note in
Instructions: step 3.).
1. Beat eggs in the blender for 1-2 minutes or until 5. Pour 4”-5” pancakes on a hot, well-oiled griddle.
they have doubled in size. Cook until bubbles form and pancakes can easily
2. Add coconut milk, apple cider vinegar and sugar, be flipped. Flip pancakes and cook until lightly
blend together. golden. Repeat until all of the pancake batter is
3. Add flour, baking powder and salt and blend for used.
1 minute *(if you have a high speed blender be sure Serve warm with coconut oil, fruit, syrup, peanut
to use the lower speeds so that you do not cook butter or anything else you want to try.
your batter). *Recipe is an excerpt from Melanie Lynn’s Gluten
4. While blender is running, drizzle melted coconut Free Waffles and Pancakes cookbook. Grab a
oil into batter. Allow blender to run until oil is fully copy and enjoy crisp waffles for breakfast.

 Resources
Videos:
Let’s bake muffins together!

Gluten and Dairy Free Pancake Recipe -

Pancake Saturday Returns!

Find the flours in

Melanie Lynn’s blend:
Easily find the flour you need

I also love the 25 pound bag of organic brown

rice flour from www.azurestandard.com

Kitchen tools I use:

Find my favorites here Resources
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Pancakes
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