Not exact matches
For he frosting — if you have any
coconut manna (butter) that would work best but if not just use double the
coconut oil and maybe use a little
less liquid but either
way I think it will be fine.
I think
coconut flour would be fine, however make sure you use about half of the amount, possibly even a bit
less than half, since it's so dense and a little goes a long
way!
I avoid processed fats, like margarine or canola oil, but whole fats from olives, avocados,
coconuts, seeds, nuts, and humanely raised animals (butter, lard, suet, schmaltz) are a necessary part of the diet, and lead to feeling full in
ways that allow people to cut down on sugar (which is
less healthy, as you say).
Studies have also shown the fatty acids in
coconut help you to eat
less, and this is believed to be the result of the
way these fats are metabolized.
Rice and flax milks are indeed thinner /
less creamy than almond and soy milks, but they would work just fine in this recipe, as would hemp, oat, hazelnut, or
coconut (the stuff designed for drinking, not the canned kind, which has
way more fat, and thickens or partially hardens in the fridge) milks.
If you substitute almond, rice, or other milk you may need
less milk or more oats to get the texture you want since
coconut milk tends to be pretty thick and we like it that
way rather than runny
I didn't want to add alcohol to
coconut ice cream though, and my sister accidentally bought «
coconut drink» instead of milk, which had
way less fat and was in general
way less awesome.
Also, I'm able to get Madhava organic
coconut sugar at my local Super Walmart for
way less than I was buying it from Vitacost.
The only
way the researchers were able to use it with standard recipes was to replace 20 percent or
less of the wheat flour with
coconut flour.
I've made many breakfast «puddings» and one of the
ways you can adjust this is swap the full fat for lite
coconut milk... it's a third of the calories and
less fat.
These are the latter: the chewy,
coconut - y cookies that require
way less patience (and skill) than their French counterpart.
In the smoke point values presented above at the beginning of this section, we suspect that the
coconut oil and EVOO were
less refined than the safflower oil and canola oil, such that the much higher smoke points of the safflower oil and canola oil were not due to the plants from which these oils were obtained, but to the
way that they were processed.
The modern
way of processing
coconut oil is by chemical extraction, using solvent extracts, which produces higher yields and is quicker and
less expensive.
I made these cookies with honey instead of
coconut sugar (which, by the
way, is no more or
less healthy than regular brown sugar).
Drinking
coconut water in place of a high - calorie drink, like flavor, soda is also a sure
way to aid your weight loss efforts since you'll be taking in far
less total calories.
So they are going to require some reworking of the basic recipe in some of the same
ways as
coconut flour, although to a
lesser extent.
If you don't like the
way yours turn out, feel free to play with the
coconut flour amount (I have had to do this a lot since starting to make them) by using
less than the amount I listed, or more.
Coconut flour has
way less fat.
South Water Caye Imagine an island
less than a half mile long, covered with white coral sand, tropical flowers, and
coconut trees, surrounded by warm, crystal clear water enveloped in coral reefs that wrap more than half
way around the island.