Easy Homemade Gluten-Free Cake Mix
You know what I miss about cooking with wheat? Cake mix. I know, I know, not healthy. But it’s so handy! Cake mix makes whipping up a quick dessert easy. We need an alternative for gluten-free recipes, right?
As always, pre-packaged, gluten-free cake mixes are out of my budget, but I finally got fed up with missing out on all the great desserts that can be made by dumping cake mix in with something (like butter ). All the cake mix recipes in my cookbooks called for things like powdered vanilla and egg substitutes. Who has that kind of thing in their pantry? Well, I don’t.
Finally, I decided to do some tweaking and made a cake mix using nothing but stuff that ordinary people (or at least people like me) have on hand. I’ve been really happy with it. I used it for those chocolate waffles I mentioned earlier, a peach cake, and a few other things. They all turned out great!
Try this delicious recipe now!
PrintEasy Homemade Gluten-Free Cake Mix
This delicious gluten-free cake mix is an easy starter for almost any cake recipe you can imagine. It’s delicious and easy!
- Prep Time: 15-20 minutes
- Cook Time: 25-30 minutes
- Total Time: 40-50 minutes
- Yield: 8–10 servings 1x
Ingredients
- 5 1/4 cups GF flour mix
- 4 t. baking powder
- 1 t. baking soda
- 2 t. salt
- 2 2/3 cups sugar
- 2 1/2 t. guar gum
Instructions
- Mix all ingredients together and store in a tight-lidded container.
- Need a few recipes to help you get a feel for your cake mix? Here you go!
Fool-proof Yellow Cake: 2 cups cake mix, 2 eggs, 1/3 cup mayonnaise, 2/3 cup sour cream, and 2 t. vanilla. Beat together for 2 minutes. Turn into an 8×8 pan (or equivalent) and bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes
Chocolate cake: add 1/3 cup cocoa and 1/4 cup milk (more or less – the cocoa makes the batter thicker) to the above recipe.
More Recipes using this cake mix:
Enjoy!
how long will this stay fresh?
I’ve stored it in an air-tight container for a couple months at a time, but if you want to keep it very long, I’d suggest keeping it in the freezer.
Wow! Fantastic! I’m so impressed! And it’s so cost effective! I can’t tell you how much I appreciate this (my kids too 😉 ) Thank you!
So glad you liked it!
Is there a replacement if we don’t want to use mayo?
Can you use a store-bought gf flour mix instead of homemade in this recipe? I mean something like Jules’ or Bob’s Red Mill.