This product is a good less expensive substitute to Authentic Foods' Garfava, but as Bette Hagman pointed out: it's very different in flavor n texture. The recipes calling for garfava will work with this mix but it will come out more grainny and with very beanny smell and taste. I only use this mix to bake breads and muffins with other strong flavor ingredients such as bananas, chocolate, onions n Parmesan cheese to mask the bean flavor. I was always hesitant to buy the real garfava because not only it is more expensive but the shipping costs almost double the price, but once I baked with it, I was so pleasantly surprised how sooooo much better it tastes! I loved vanilla blueberry muffins when I used to eat wheat, but after I was diagnosed with Celiac spruce I couldn't find a GF flour mix that would produce a muffin that would taste good and be as fluffy as the wheat ones. This product produces breads and muffins with great consistency but the bean taste is too strong. For vanilla cupcakes, I have to use AF's garfava.