Introducing Fluffy Chix Low Carb Gluten Free-Nut Free Bake Mix

This One Is For All Of You Low Carbers With Gluten and Nut Allergies!

March 27, 2012 Important Update!
There is new and improved Low Carb Gluten Free, Soy Free, Nut Free White Bread post with updated recipes. Click on the link!

Fluffy Chix Low Carb Gluten Free-Nut Free White Sandwich Bread

Ta Ta Da! Ladies and gentlemen – you know who you are!

I’m happy to announce Fluffy Chix Low Carb Gluten Free-Nut Free Bake Mix. After months of work and testing, I think this recipe formulation is ready to test drive and I’m excited. I hope you are too!

Jen Eloff over at Splendid Low Carbing has worked tirelessly through the years to develop Low Carb Bake Mixes and recipes based on those mixes. And we have
thrived because of her exacting and creative efforts. Please be sure to visit her website and look at all the gorgeous baked goods that have come from her bake mixes. Her latest derivation is a Gluten Free Bake Mix. It works beautifully! Oh and you should check out her latest cookbook, Low Carbing Among Friends. I highly recommend it!

So why do I feel the need for a different Low Carb Bake Mix that’s gluten free? Well, having survived breast cancer and learning I have a couple of degenerative conditions that could be auto-immune in nature, I definitely want to break my dependency on gluten and wheat products.. But unfortunately I have nut allergies that make her mixes impractical for me. I also have to watch how much sesame seeds and pumpkin seeds I use, so can't easily sub those out for the almond flour in her recipes.

But the new Fluffy Chix Low Carb Gluten Free-Nut Free Bake Mix is dedicated to those of us low carbers out there who also share an intolerance or allergy to most nuts, especially almond flour, as well as to flax seeds. You have no idea how difficult it is to make any kind of substitute baked good low carb if you can’t eat almonds or flax! You guys who can eat that stuff are soooo LUCKY!!! LC would be a snap if I could eat those – especially since Jen has done such amazing work with her LC Gluten Free Bake Mixes!

Fluffy Chix Low Carb Gluten Free-Nut Free Mini Chive Crostini

On Fluffy Chix, I will feature recipes that are of course low carb, but are also breast cancer neutral or that might help lower the risk of developing breast cancer, in addition to addressing the needs of those who either want to take a nut break, or need to take a nut break, and who can’t or don’t want to eat flax – or who maybe just don’t like flax!

Fluffy Chix Cook will occasionally make recipes using limited tree nuts such as walnuts or pecans (which I can have in small servings), limited use of seeds such as sesame and pumpkin seeds, and limited amounts of chia. It will be a challenge, sure, but I feel those of us with intolerances and allergies have needed recipes that will help expand our culinary arsenal and help us maintain an uninterrupted low carb lifestyle.

Before I unveil the recipe for the Fluffy Chix Low Carb Gluten Free-Nut Free Bake Mix, I want to explain that one of the goals in developing this recipe was to use readily available ingredients. Two of the staple items may not be readily available in your neck of the woods but are easily ordered online. My kitchen is never without them! They are Oat FIBER (that’s fiber, which is different than oat bran and different than oat flour) and also coconut flour. Please, please google them and order them. It will make your life so much easier. I get mine from either Netrition or Honeyville Grains.


Fluffy Chix Cook Low Carb Gluten Free Nut Free
Microwave Biscuit


Another goal is to try to minimize the use of whey protein powders and cheeses that are included in many LC Gluten Free recipes. These items may have an influence on breast cancer because they may stimulate estrogen production in your body and/or they might interfere with the action of aromatase inhibitors which influence cancer proliferation in hormone positive tumors.

One of the other elements of the Fluffy Chix LC GF-NF Bake Mix is the use of an All-Purpose Gluten Free Bake Mix base. I use this base mix because these mixes add bread-like crumb structure and volume or bulk to the LC Bake Mix formulation. They are usually a combination of high carb gluten free flours and it saves us bakers the need to go out and purchase a bag of each of those 4-6 different high carb flours.

So bottom line? It’s cheaper to buy a pre-mixed bag of gluten free bake mix. I use two different kinds and both are delicious and readily available at the grocery store. Which one do I prefer? Well, simple. Whatever brand happens to be in my pantry at the time. But they are too high carb to use on their own. I use either Bob’s Redmill brand Gluten Free Bake Mix or I use King Arthur brand Gluten Free Bake Mix. (Although, I do like saving thos 5g of net carbs per 1/4c when I use Bob's Redmill Base Mix!)

With the new formulation of Fluffy Chix LC Gluten Free- Nut Free Bake Mix, I will give you the nutritional information based on each of those different base mixes. King Arthur brand has about 1.1 additional carb per tablespoon, but I believe it is a negligible difference in the big scheme of things in small quantities, but it does add up when using as much as 1/4c.

The carb count on my Bob's Redmill formula is lower than Carbquick. The King Arthur formulation is a little higher than that of Carbquick Bake Mix, another LC bake mix. But the good part is that mine doesn’t have any gluten in it nor does it have soy – Carbquick has both of those ingredients and a very “interesting” aftertaste many find objectionable – especially if you are a super-taster! The Fluffy Chix LC Gluten Free-Nut Free Bake Mix has a very faint (emphasize faint!) coconut/oat after taste.

The best tip I can give you about working with this mix is to pre-mix a portion of the Fluffy Chix LC GF-NF Bake Mix and keep it in a container on the counter or in your pantry. That way it’s convenient to pop open the container and scoop and level whatever amount you need for your recipe. Hey don’t forget, it’s best to give it a quick shake-up before you scoop and level. That way nothing has settled to the bottom.

I have resisted using dough conditioners in the main mix – conditioners like vegetables gums (acacia, xanthan, guar, glucomannan) or baking powder or things like that, because I want to keep this as a pure flour base. Those types of things love water (hydrophilic) and are humectants that might cause your mix to clump over time. So I recommend adding those on a per recipe basis and leaving your main mix pure.

Also, I use oatmeal in the Fluffy Chix LC GF-NF Bake Mix and because I want it gluten free, I either use Bob’s Redmill brand certified Gluten Free Rolled Oats or I use some from Whole Foods that is certified GF. Some of your may not be able to handle oats. You might try adding brown rice flour or amaranth instead? Let me know and I will tell you what the ground measurement of the rolled oats is. I measure the rolled oats as whole rolled oats and not ground.


Fluffy Chix Low Carb Gluten Free-Nut Free White
Sandwich Bread made into a Pork Tenderloin Sandwich!


In the coming weeks, Fluffy Chix Cook will be unveiling recipes based on the new Fluffy Chix LC GF-NF Bake Mix. Please bear with me! For now, I'm including photos of the few items I’ve had time to make. It certainly isn’t limited to these uses! These were just the biggest priority to add into my cooking tool belt. Yeah, yeah, it’s a little food porn. But what’s food porn between us chix, right?

I use this mix to replace about 1/3 to ½ of the AP Flour called for in a recipe. So if a recipe called for one cup of flour, I would most likely use 1/4c Fluffy Chix LC GF NF Bake Mix, 1/4c Coconut Flour, 1/4c Oat Fiber and I would add an additional egg or 2 to the recipe - it's a trial-and-error process. I do this to keep carbs lower and because you can generally use ½ the amount of coconut fiber to equal twice the volume (so 1/4c coconut flour =about 1/2c mixed bulk).

If you can spare the carbs, it’s even better to add 1/2c Fluffy Chix LC GF-NF Bake Mix, 1/8C Coconut Flour and 1/4c Oat Fiber. (But don’t worry, I will be bringing you recipes!)

Fluffy Chix Low Carb Gluten Free-Nut Free Bake Mix  (Fluffy Chix LC GF-NF Bake Mix ) – Bob’s Redmill Base (Wow! That’s a mouthful!)

Yield – 18 Tablespoons (actually 18Tbsp + 1-1/2 tsp but I rounded down)
Serving Size – 1 Tablespoon (for easy recipe conversion)
Prep Time – 10 Minutes
Cooking Time – Varies per recipe
Difficulty – Easy Peasy!
(The recipe doubles and triples easily!)

Ingredients
2 Tbsp Coconut Flour (Bob’s Redmill preferred)
6 Tbsp Oat FIBER (Honeyville Grains preferred)
1/2c Old Fashioned Rolled Oats (Bob’s Redmill certified GF preferred)
4 Tbsp Gluten Free Bake Mix (Bob’s Redmill preferred)


Ground oat texture. Measure
before grinding.


DirectionsGrind pre-measured oats in a small coffee grinder until they are the consistency of a coarse flour such as graham flour. It doesn’t have to be completely smooth! Measure the oats before grinding.







Scoop and level

 Measure all ingredients with the scoop and level technique, or if you prefer, use a scale and add them to the recipe by weight.

I find it’s easiest to measure everything except the oats into a mesh strainer. Using a large spoon I press and scrape the flours through the mesh to sift it and break up any large lumps. 




Add ground rolled oats to the sifted mixture and store Fluffy Chix LC GF NF Bake Mix in an air tight container.

Shake bake mix before each use.

Nutritional Information for Fluffy Chix LC GF NF Bake Mix using Bob’s Redmill GF Base – Full Recipe:
(8.8g Net Carbs per 1/4 cup) (Compare to 23g Net Carbs per 1/4 cup All Purpose Flour)



















Nutritional Information for Fluffy Chix LC GF NF Bake Mix using Bob’s Redmill GF Base – Single Serving:
(2.2 Net Carbs per Tablespoon)

Fluffy Chix Low Carb Gluten Free-Nut Free Bake Mix  (Fluffy Chix LC GF-NF Bake Mix ) – King Arthur Base

Yield – 18 Tablespoons (actually 18Tbsp + 1-1/2 tsp but I rounded down)
Serving Size – 1 Tablespoon (for easy recipe conversion)
Prep Time – 10 Minutes
Cooking Time – Varies per recipe
Difficulty – Easy Peasy!
(The recipe doubles and triples easily!)

Ingredients2 Tbsp Coconut Flour (Bob’s Redmill preferred)
6 Tbsp Oat FIBER (Honeyville Grains preferred)
1/2c Old Fashioned Rolled Oats (Bob’s Redmill certified GF preferred)
4 Tbsp Gluten Free Bake Mix (King Arthur brand preferred)

DirectionsGrind pre-measured oats in a small coffee grinder until they are the consistency of a coarse flour such as graham flour. It doesn’t have to be completely smooth! Measure the oats before grinding.

Measure all ingredients with the scoop and level technique, or if you prefer, use a scale and add them to the recipe by weight.

I find it’s easiest to measure everything except the oats into a hand held mesh strainer. Using a large spoon I press and scrape the flours through the mesh so that it has been sifted and any large lumps are broken.

Add ground rolled oats to the sifted mixture and store LC GF-NF Bake Mix in an air tight container.

Shake bake mix before each use.

Nutritional Information for Fluffy Chix LC GF-NF Bake Mix using King Arthurs GF Base – Full Recipe:
(13.2g Net Carbs per ¼ cup) (Compare to 23g Net Carbs per ¼ cup in All Purpose Flour)

Nutritional Information for Fluffy Chix LC GF-NF Bake Mix using King Arthur GF Base – Single Serving:
(3.3g Net Carbs per Tablespoon)

SusieT Notes:This is a winning bake mix! And the best part about it is that it’s 40% lower carbs than using the straight gluten free bake mixes, making them accessible to low carbers and carb controlled folks who don’t want to use a bunch of added nuts and flax and cheeses and whey proteins!



Fluffy Chix Low Carb Gluten Free-Nut Free Baked Biscuit

 This is as close to All Purpose flour as I’ve had in a while, except it has 50% fewer carbs!!

I made appetizer Chive Crostinis with them yesterday. We had pork tenderloin sandwiches on white sandwich bread last night. Can you believe that? Yep, tasted very much like good old white sandwich bread (maybe a little denser), but it was moist and made a FUNctional (you know, FUN and FUNCTIONAL) white bread. This morning we had my beloved breakfast biscuits made with pork tenderloin and avocado! Olé!


Fluffy Chix Low Carb TexMex Pork Tenderloin
Breakfast Biscuit


I’m pleased! And full! And chock full of fiber! In fact, that may be the only drawback with this formulation. It’s very high fiber. That’s a good thing if you are trying to avoid breast cancer. You do have to be sure to drink LOTS of liquid when eating these! Most of it is soluble fiber, so it’s hopefully a little easier on your gut, but I would work into using it slowly until you know how your body will react! Luckily I tolerate fiber very well.

The Fluffy Chix LC GF-NF Bake Mix is versatile too! If you have some other GF Bake Mix in your pantry or local grocery, sub out for it and adjust the carb count! You will be very close to the formulations by doing that! And you can either microwave or bake it in the oven with very good success. It’s a keeper!