I’d been in Trader Joe’s and was talking with my friend Brian, who does the food samples in the morning. We found some almond meal that looked much like what I was testing. Later I read the package and found that it could be substituted for flour 1part meal to 2 parts flour. As my mom and I have gluten intolerance this was an exciting find.
Yesterday I thought that I’d like to try making some chocolate chip cookies using the almond meal instead of flour. Now I found some info to go on.
This evening I mixed up a batch of my chocolate chip cookies. The recipe called for 1C + 2 Tbsp. flour so I used ½ that amount of almond meal. When the timer rang I was so anxious to see what I’d created, which turned out to be a huge mass of thin cooked dough with some chocolate chips sticking out. I started to move the mass of stuff and then thought I’d take a photo to document it. You’ll see the outline of where the cookie was in the photo.
I remembered that the info from Trader Joe’s said that the food item would not hold together if meal was added. I didn’t know what to do as the remaining cookies were ready to go into the oven. Finally I scoped the raw dough off of the cookie sheet and into a bowl, added more meal, mixed it in and made more cookies.
After 10 minutes I found that my cookies had actually held together rather than running into one mass. Some actually looked like something a chocolate chip cookie looks like. I tasted one and it was quite good.
I have some ideas for the next batch that I’ll make tomorrow. Maybe less butter and more meal.
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