The 9 Best Gluten-Free Bread Mixes of 2020

King Arthur Flour has been producing high quality flours and other baking ingredients—including mixes—for home and commercial bakers for many years. While many of their mixes include wheat flour, their line of gluten-free mixes has been growing, and have been quite well received by consumers. Each box of bread mix makes one large loaf of bread.

Some reviewers have also baked this mix in small pans to make sandwich buns. While this does require butter, eggs and milk for the standard recipe, the box also includes information on how to make it dairy-free, if necessary. There are also instructions for using the mix for homemade pizza crust. For even more tested modifications, the King Arthur Flour website includes information for making egg-free bread, or for baking it in a bread machine.

While it’s unlikely you’d use banana bread for a sandwich, it’s a very popular type of quick bread—and with this mix, you can have it gluten free for breakfast, lunch, dessert, or a snack. If you prefer, you can also use the mix to make banana muffins, which can be frozen and warmed up individually whenever you want a quick breakfast or a snack.

This pack includes of three 9-ounce boxes of mix. Each box of mix makes one loaf of banana bread or 12 muffins. It’s important to read the instructions, since the muffin recipe and the bread recipe require slightly different amounts of eggs and water.

This pre-made mix contains just seven ingredients, all of which you could easily find by themselves in a grocery store or health food store. Unlike some bread mixes, this pick contains no preservatives, so you'll need to store your baked goods in the fridge or freezer to keep them fresh.

This tasty 16-ounce mix makes two loaves of French-style bread that can be baked in a variety of ways. You can use your favorite stand mixer to do the hard work, then bake the loaf on a sheet pan or in a Dutch oven for an artisan look, or you can bake it in a standard loaf pan to make bread that’s perfect for sandwiches. For more convenience, this can also be baked in a bread machine, so you can just add all the ingredients and retrieve it when it’s done.

Challah can be challenging to make, and is even more challenging when it needs to be gluten free. This mix makes it easier to make a loaf of Kosher challah right at home. This 20.5 ounce bag makes enough dough for two braided challah loaves or 10 rolls.

To make the dough, you’ll need your own yeast, oil, and eggs, as well as a little bit of extra gluten-free flour to keep your workspace floured when you're forming the braids. This mix is available as a single package, as a 3-pack, or as a 6-pack if you know you’ll be making a lot of bread.

While traditional cornbread includes a lot of cornmeal, it also includes wheat flour, so it’s not usually gluten free. This mix eliminates the wheat, creating a tasty cornbread that can be baked in a cast iron skillet, in a square pan, or as corn muffins. It’s simple to make, too—just add milk, egg, and oil, stir to combine, and bake. This 15-ounce box makes one pan of cornbread or 12 corn muffins.

Because it requires special ingredients, gluten-free bread mixes tend to be expensive, but this mix from Bob’s Red Mill is quite affordable. Each 16-ounce bag makes one loaf of gluten-free bread. The mix includes a variety of grains and seeds that produces a complex, whole-grain bread with more flavor than a typical loaf of white bread.

Brazilian cheese bread isn’t something that needs to be adapted to be gluten free—the recipe never had gluten originally. Instead, these little bread balls are made with tapioca flour and no wheat at all. While this mix is designed for making cheese bread, it doesn’t actually include cheese in the mix. While sharp cheese is preferred, you can add your own favorite, or you can leave it out for delicious, cheese-free rolls.

Since the ingredients are limited, this bread also eliminates many other common allergens. It contains no gluten, wheat, soy, corn, rice, nuts, or potatoes. While the recipe does require eggs, an egg substitute can be used. The mix contains milk powder, so the bread cannot be made lactose-free.

Many people who can’t have gluten also avoid other common allergens, like dairy products. While some brands of bread mixes include instructions for making the recipe without dairy products, those substitutions can result in a lower quality loaf because the milk or butter are there to add flavor. This mix was designed to be dairy free, so there’s no need to worry about substitutions that might not taste as good and might not work as planned.

The recipe on the package does include eggs, but can be made with egg substitutes if needed. This dry mix can also be used for pie crust, breading meats, making gravy, and more. One 19 ounce bag makes one large loaf of bread.

While there are plenty of bread mixes available, sometimes a baker just wants to make their own recipe, whether it’s for a quick bread, a yeast bread, a batch of muffins, or even a dessert. Cup 4 Cup makes that possible, since it’s a gluten-free wheat flour substitute that can be used in just about any baking recipe, using the same volume measure as the wheat flour in your recipe.

Sure, it’s not as simple as following the instructions on the back of a box, but if you love to bake other recipes, whether it’s from a cookbook or a family favorite, this is a great choice.