I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season! I’m trying to catch up and get back to work.

I’ve been posing this question to many celiac discussion forums and groups – “If you could bake a very moist cake out of 100% rice flour, would you be interested?”

I know the proposition is puzzling. We’ve always been told that baking with 100% rice flour yields a product that is gritty. However, I’ve discovered a new way to bake with rice flour that creates a very moist cake.

I do a lot of things in my professional life. I’m a technical writer, analyst, and researcher. I’ve been able to translate these skills to my personal life in my quest to have a better life, even though I suffer from celiac disease.

I like to eat cakes and brownies on occasion! So, when I started this website, I started researching. And lo and behold I found an answer. It’s not an easy answer. It’s more complicated than opening a cake mix. But the results are much better. So, if you need a very good cake for a birthday or any special occasion, the extra time required with this method is worth it. And the cost savings are fabulous!

I have published a method – FREE – to explain how to create these moist cakes out of 100% rice flour. The only other “celiac” ingredient required is xanthan gum. No other flours – no tapioca flour, cornstarch, potato starch or other exotic flours. Just regular rice flour. The one thing I want to emphasize is that it appears to be very important to have a very fine grind of flour. I grind my own flour with a dedicated grinder. So, you will need to buy a very fine rice flour or grind your own.

If you would like more information about this method, subscribe to my newsletter. The download comes in the first email.

I have also created a youtube page and posted my first video explaining how to hydrate rice flour. It is undoubtedly the most boring video you will ever watch, but it is my best attempt to teach you as if you were in my kitchen.

Here’s the video:

This video shows how to hydrate rice flour. You will need to get the download to understand how it’s used.

I will be posting more videos in the coming weeks. It took me quite a while to find the right software to convert my Flip camera video to the .mp4 format that YouTube likes best.

Hopefully, 2010 will be the year you get to eat real cake!