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This round-up of 31 delicious sweet rice flour recipes will be a revelation as you discover just how versatile this unique gluten-free flour really is. There is everything from vanilla cake recipes, wonderful gluten-free scones to gluten-free pastry and even Yorkshire puddings. Keep reading for a bountiful list of all the different recipes you can make with sweet rice flour.
I'm sure you have already fallen for this amazingly versatile flour hook, line and sinker but if you are in a dilemma on what to do with an unfinished bag then these sweet rice flour recipes will be a great resource for you. Dinner? Birthday cake? Afternoon tea? There is a recipe here for every occasion.
The starch properties in sweet rice flour means that when used as part of a gluten-free blend it can create gloriously moist, bouncy and well-structured cakes.
Gluten-Free Vanilla Layer Cake is made without xanthan gum and is deliciously fluffy, light and moist. It is filled and covered with a dreamy vanilla swiss meringue buttercream.
This Lemon Bundt Cake is a gorgeously tangy moist and tender lemon cake with a secret weapon – lashings and lashings of intoxicating golden lemon caramel.
This easy Gluten-Free Strawberry Cake is made with fresh strawberries baked into the cake using a vibrant strawberry reduction. The same reduction is used in the gorgeously creamy Strawberry Cream Cheese Buttercream making every bite taste of hazy lazy summer days.
This Gluten-Free Chocolate Layer Cake is rich with chocolate and boasts a moist and tender crumb. Finished with a luxuriously silky buttercream for the ultimate indulgence. No xanthan gum is needed for this crowd pleaser of a cake.
Keep everybody happy with this Gluten-Free Caramel Cake. A gorgeously flavourful cake whose caramel notes are enhanced by the use of teff and oat flour. It takes no time at all to mix together and is drenched in an easy caramel icing you will find it impossible to resist.
This is the Gluten-Free Hummingbird Cake you have been looking for. Bursting with bananas, fresh pineapple and pecans and lightly spiced with cinnamon. Filled and covered in a gloriously dreamy cream cheese buttercream. Here we make it with your favourite gluten-free flours for maximum flavour and perfect texture.
This Gluten-Free Brown Butter Pumpkin Bread made with alternative flours and without xanthan gum is the most moist and delicious pumpkin bread you will eat this Autumn.
Apple and Cinnamon Cake with Salted Caramel Cream Cheese Buttercream {gluten-free}
A beautiful layered Apple and Cinnamon Cake with Salted Caramel Cream Cheese Buttercream. This gluten-free apple cake is wonderfully flavourful and the depth of buckwheat rounds out the warmth of the cinnamon, allspice, cloves and nutmeg. The luxurious cream cheese buttercream spiked with homemade salted caramel turns this cake into a real celebration.
Gluten-Free Sweet Potato Cake with Cinnamon Swirl is deeply flavourful with butterscotch undertones rippled with buttery cinnamon and drizzled with maple cream cheese icing.
Gluten-Free Spiced Pumpkin Cake with Toasted Marshmallow
This Gluten-Free Spiced Pumpkin Cake is a real celebration of our favourite Autumn vegetable. Layers of gluten-free spiced pumpkin sponge are filled with a brown butter pumpkin buttercream and covered in toasted marshmallow clouds.
Apple Blueberry Maple Cake {refined sugar-free, gluten-free}
Apple Blueberry Maple Cake is refined sugar-free and gluten-free and so full of flavour. Filled with a blueberry chia jam and covered in a maple swiss meringue buttercream.
The delicately neutral yet slightly sweet flavour of sweet rice flour can be an absolute boon to your baking as it doesn't interfere with other flavours. Try it in pancakes, sponge puddings, suet puddings and custards.
Gluten-Free Frangipane Tart
A superb Gluten-Free Frangipane is exactly the kind of recipe you need to have in your back pocket. Made from ground almonds this delicious pastry cream can be used to top simple fruit tarts or mince pies. It can also be made into this deliciously simple Frangipane tart baked into a homemade pastry crust and sprinkled with flaked almonds.
This quick rice pudding recipe is made on the hob (stovetop) and makes a gorgeously creamy rice pudding in just 40 minutes. It’s a lot faster than baking it in the oven and is just as delicious.
Steamed Chocolate Pudding with Chocolate Custard {gluten-free}
Steamed Chocolate Sponge Pudding with Chocolate Custard is the ultimate in pudding decadence. Warm and sticky gluten-free chocolate pudding steamed on the stove top then served with lashings of rich chocolate custard.
Sweet rice flour creates the most smooth and silky textured sauces batters. For roux recipes you can even substitute plain all-purpose flour on a 1:1 basis. Try it in gravies, Yorkshire puddings, family dinners and sauces.
The Best Gluten-Free Cheese Sauce
The Best Gluten-Free Cheese Sauce has a full-bodied flavour which can be used in a variety of meals from pasta sauce to cauliflower cheese and is velvety smooth thanks to the use of sweet rice flour.
Best Ever Gluten-Free Yorkshire Puddings (without cornflour)
These are the best Gluten-Free Yorkshire Puddings made without cornflour or xanthan gum. Majestically tall and crisp with a fluffy breaded interior making them absolutely ideal for mopping up the gravy after your Sunday Roast.
Sweet rice flour in pastry recipes may be the missing ingredient you needed. By using this deliciously sticky flour you will have no need for xanthan gum or even psyllium husk for good stretch and structure.
The Best All-Butter Gluten-Free Pastry (no xanthan gum)
This homemade All-Butter Gluten-Free Pastry Recipe is so easy to work with and incredibly versatile. We use three alternative flours to achieve the perfect crisp texture and incredible buttery taste. It’s delicious as a crust for fruit pies, tarts and mince pies or for savoury quiches, sausage rolls or pasties. Plus there is no xanthan gum in this recipe so everyone can enjoy it.
There is nothing more inviting than a freshly baked Eccles Cake, warm from the oven, the pastry beautifully flaky and the spiced plump fruit just short of bursting through its buttery trappings.
This Easy Gluten-Free Cheese Quiche recipe is made with homemade pastry and no xanthan gum. It is creamy, cheesy and silky with a perfectly crisp and buttery gluten-free pastry crust. You can eat this quiche warm from the oven or leave to chill and set so it is safe to transport for picnics. It’s an excellent base for so many different flavour combinations or delicious just as it is.
This classic Gluten-Free Pumpkin Pie is an absolute showstopper. The smooth creamy filling is a rich blend of pumpkin, brown butter, condensed milk and spices. Topped with whipped maple cream and encased in the most deliciously flaky all-butter pie crust which has no xanthan gum!
These Gluten-Free Cheese Scones are the real deal. Brilliantly portable for picnics and essential for afternoon tea with a deeply cheesy savoury flavour. Easy to make with no xanthan gum needed.
These Gluten-Free Apple Scones are slightly spiced and sweetened with a drizzle of honey. They are delicate fluffy little scones and the perfect match for lashings of this season's homemade jam.
I urge you to give these amazing Sweet Rice Flour Recipes a try. If you do then please leave a comment on the recipe page and give the recipe a rating which helps others find the recipe on Google. If you then go on to use this recipe as a launch pad for your own culinary creation then I’d also love it if you’d share it and tag me on Instagram. It is so lovely for me to see your versions and variations of my recipes.
I have used sweet rice flour in my own flour mixture for sometime now. I do like the texture that it provides in baked goods and in some breads. Also use powered milk along with whole milk in some of my flour mixtures for bread. I find each time you bake gluten free your end result can be a little different.
Hi, Georgina!
So glad I found your site! I love that you have recipes using Sweet Rice Flour, but I wish you would also put the ingredients in U.S. Customary Units as well. It would be a great help.
Can't wait to try some of the recipes after I convert them!
Many thanks!
You are most welcome!! I know it is a constant source of frustration for my US readers. I develop my recipes using grams and it is very tricky to convert after the fact to US customary units. Developing them in grams gives me a lot more freedom to add an extra tablespoon of flour here and there and use very specific measurements which is what makes the bakes so successful. I strongly recommend using a scale to weigh out gluten-free ingredients (much more so than using regular flours) since they are so fine in texture and measuring them consistency in cups is not accurate enough. Gluten-free baking always relies so heavily on extremely accurate measurements as the slightest variation in flours. I do recommend buying a set of digital scales if you bake regularly with gluten-free flours - they cost about $10 and will absolutely change your baking experience for the better. Read more here >>> Why you should weigh ingredients
I have used sweet rice flour in my own flour mixture for sometime now. I do like the texture that it provides in baked goods and in some breads. Also use powered milk along with whole milk in some of my flour mixtures for bread. I find each time you bake gluten free your end result can be a little different.
Yes sweet rice works so well as part of a flour blend. Thank you for your comment.
Hi, Georgina!
So glad I found your site! I love that you have recipes using Sweet Rice Flour, but I wish you would also put the ingredients in U.S. Customary Units as well. It would be a great help.
Can't wait to try some of the recipes after I convert them!
Many thanks!
You are most welcome!! I know it is a constant source of frustration for my US readers. I develop my recipes using grams and it is very tricky to convert after the fact to US customary units. Developing them in grams gives me a lot more freedom to add an extra tablespoon of flour here and there and use very specific measurements which is what makes the bakes so successful. I strongly recommend using a scale to weigh out gluten-free ingredients (much more so than using regular flours) since they are so fine in texture and measuring them consistency in cups is not accurate enough. Gluten-free baking always relies so heavily on extremely accurate measurements as the slightest variation in flours. I do recommend buying a set of digital scales if you bake regularly with gluten-free flours - they cost about $10 and will absolutely change your baking experience for the better. Read more here >>> Why you should weigh ingredients