Holiday Baking Ingredients...

If you are fairly new to gluten free holiday baking, as I am, then you know how hard it can be sorting and reading through labels on all those baking products needed to make your favorite cookies and other holiday treats into gluten free.. I have added a list of  just a few of the most used  gluten free ingredients needed in making those beautiful Holiday delicacies. I hope the list helps to make your holiday baking a little easier this year, and  that you can use the time saved to spend with friends and family!.


  Jellies, Peanut Butters & Spreads:
  
   Polaner All Fruit

Jiff Peanut butter-all types

Skippy Peanut butter-creamy, crunchy, reduced fat, and roasted honey nut

Smuckers Jellies and Jams

Smuckers All Fruit

Smuckers Natural Peanut butter

Welch’s Grape jelly and jam

Marshmallow Fluff

 

Molasses and Karo:

 

Brer Rabbit Molasses

Grandma’s molasses

Karo corn syrups-light and dark

 

Butters, Shortenings, Oils, Spreads, and Sprays:

 

Cabot Butter

Cabot Whipped Butter

Crisco Oil

Crisco Shortening-regular and butter

Fleishman’s Light Margarine

Mazola oils and sprays

Smart Balance Shortening and Cooking Spray

Smart Balance Buttery Spread

I Can’t believe it’s not Butter, -all types

Benecol spread (reg and light)

Land O Lakes butter-salted, unsalted and whipped (NOTE: light butter is NOT gluten free)

 

Sour Creams, Yogurts:

 

Axelrod sour cream

Cabot Sour Cream-regular and lite

Columbo yogurts-fat free, light, low fat, classic

Yoplait yogurts-original, light, thick and creamy, whips, go gurts, smoothies

Axelrod Yogurt

Dannon plain yogurt-low fat, nonfat, natural

Dannon Dan Active plain yogurt

 

 

Baking Goods/milks:

 

Carnation Evaporated and Fat Free Evaporated Milk

Carnation Sweetened Condensed Milk

Carnation Instant Nonfat Dry Milk

Thai Kitchen Light Coconut Milk

Thai Kitchen Premium Coconut Milk

A Taste of Thai Coconut Milk

 

Sugars and Misc:

 

Arm and Hammer Baking Soda

Domino’s sugar-brown-light and dark, confectionery, and granulated white

Fleishmann’s Yeast

Splenda Sweetener

 

 

Chocolate and Chocolate chips:

 

Hershey’s chocolate syrup, chocolate chips, baking chips

Ghiradelli unsweetened cocoa, unsweetened baking bar,

bittersweet chocolate chips, milk chocolate chips,

semi-sweet chocolate chips, white chocolate chips and baking bar

 

 

Spices and Extracts:

 

McCormick’s extracts (all flavors, pure and imitation)

McCormick’s spices (not blends)

McCormick’s food color

Real Lemon and Real lime juice

Nestles Toll House morsels

Betty Crocker candy sprinkles

Betty Crocker Neon decorating gels

Splenda Sweetener

Durkee Spices

 

Pie Fillings:

 

Comstock pie fillings-all flavors 

Lucky leaf pie fillings

Libby’s pure pumpkin

* As always it is up to the individual to read labels to make sure that products used in recipes posted are gluten free, as companies do change ingredients from time to time.

* Splenda...There are no gluten containing, grain based ingredients derived from wheat, rye, or barley, nor any ingredients derived from oats, used to produce SPLENDA^® Brand Sweetener (sucralose) or the SPLENDA^® Sweetener Products. However they do not test their finished products for the presence of gluten.

As always have a great wheat free day!
Sharon