- Pack of three bags (total of 192-ounces)
- Gluten free baking and pancake mix
- To prevent bags from exploding during delivery, the manufacturer has added two food-grade pin holes on each bag during production
- Product of USA
Product Description
Create light and fluffy pancakes and waffles, as well as delicious breads, cakes and muffins and savory entrees with Pamela’s baking and pancake mix. It’s also a great substitute for flour…. More >>
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Even though I grew up with Bisquick and love it, we are always looking for new and different pancake mixes…so I was excited to see all the rave reviews on Pamela’s Ultimate Baking & Pancake Mix Wheat-Free & Gluten Free (on Amazon). It wasn’t until after I purchased it that I even noticed it was what-free and gluten-free.
Well, let me just tell you, at least for pancakes, this stuff is NO Bisquick. Bisquick still beats Pamela’s by a country mile (or six). I cannot fathom how other reviewers there likened this to Bisquick or even better than Bisquick. NO WAY, NO HOW!
Now, the pancakes were certainly not BAD–and I could see how if your diet required you to eat wheat- or gluten-free, then the pancakes were probably even good. But to say they were better than Bisquick? Never. Bisquick pancakes cook up light and fluffy; Pamela’s pancakes were too moist and dense and flat and didn’t even cook like regular pancakes (they don’t bubble up like normal pancake batter, so we were a bit confused how to cook them). We even tried a few different cooking methods (temperatures) and none came out any better.
Can you tell I’m a Bisquick girl?
Here, let me get it out of my system: Bisquick Bisquick Bisquick Bisquick Bisquick Bisquick Bisquick Bisquick Bisquick Bisquick Bisquick Bisquick Bisquick Bisquick Bisquick.
The bag says “Makes waffles, scones, muffins, loaf cakes, cookies, biscuits, coffee cake, and more” and there are recipes on the package for all of those, including a banana loaf cake, pumpkin loaf cake with nut topping, sour cream coffee cake, zucchini loaf cake, chocolate chip cookies, and (I kid you not) Bisquick-Type Drop Biscuits.
I did make a batch of chocolate chip cookies with the mix and those were good–they didn’t taste any different than regular cookies made with flour. But for the regular person (i.e. you don’t NEED this type of product) then it’s certainly more expensive than flour. I am definitely going to try a few of the other suggested recipes to use up the rest because we certainly aren’t going to make pancakes with it.
It is costly: $40 for three (3) 64oz bags (or $13.33 per bag). If you sign up for the “Subscribe & Save” it drops to $34, or $11.33/bag or 17c/oz. That sounded like a good deal at first, but a 64oz bag isn’t nearly as big as I thought it was. Compared to (are you ready?) Bisquick, which I can get a 96oz box at Costco for about $9 or 9c/oz…it’s almost double the price. So unless you NEED this, I wouldn’t buy it.
INGREDIENTS:
Brown rice flour, white rice flour, cultured buttermilk, natural almond meal (may appear as brown flecks), tapioca starch, sweet rice flour, potato starch, grainless & aluminum-free baking powder (sodium bicarbonate, sodium acid pyrophosphate, potato starch), baking soda, sea salt, xantham gum
ALLERGEN INFORMATION: CONTAINS TREE NUTS AND MILK
*Pamela’s Products donates to Celiac Sprue & Autism Support, and Research Organizations, and is a member of the American Celiac Disease Alliance.
I am giving the mix three stars out of five. If I needed the gluten-free aspect I would probably rate it much higher (at least 4 stars, if not 5). But as just your Average Joe looking for a pancake mix to replace Bisquick…or something to replace flour, I’d give this three stars and advise you to stick with Bisquick (or whatever product you currently use that you like).
Rating: 3 / 5
The bread made from this stuff is TERRIBLE! Crusty, Dense, Sweet! Can’t make a meat sandwich out of it because it is so sweet! Try Gluten Free Pantry Favorite Sandwich or French Bread & Pizza Mix, they taste like real bread! Like I said, it’s sweet and has an overpowering flavor that ruins anything you try to do with it.
Rating: 1 / 5
I love Pamela’s products. This product is awesome as so is all her products. I just ordered Pamela’s baking mix and bread mix the other day and it just showed up yesterday and all 6 bags in two separate boxes had two small puncture holes in all the bags in the same spot. The holes had to have been made at Pamela’s packaging warehouse because they were packaged in Pamela’s shipping boxes. I called amazon and reported it to them and they were very nice and refunded my money.I would have given this product a five star but for the packaging issue from Pamela’s i gave it three stars.
Rating: 3 / 5
I love the product, unfortunately one of the bags had a hole in it. My computer died and I just got it back and this the first time I could write. I am allergic to wheat and I use the flour for everything- the best chocolate chip cookies, biscuits, pancakes. I will purchase some again soon. Thanks for asking
Rating: 5 / 5
A little pricey but good for your health.
You had the best price that I have found.
Thank you, Tom
Rating: 4 / 5
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