Almond flour is a bit
finer than almond meal.
it's weird that your dough came out like pancake batter... maybe the almond flour you used is much
finer than the almond meal I used (made by grinding almonds in a food processor).
Almond flour is lighter and
finer than almond meal and generally better for light and airy baked goods.
Not exact matches
I haven't tried specifically for this recipe, but usually it works
fine to substitute the
almond flour with 1/3 of the quantity in coconut flour, since the coconut flour absorbs more moisture
than almond flour.
It seems to be an oilier nut and harder to get into a
fine grind
than almonds - but maybe i just need to process them longer.
Lucy, I'm in the UK and I've just started buying Real Food Source brand of extra
fine almond flour which goes a lot further
than the usual ground
almond flour so I'm finding it cheaper to use.
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 it's easier for you buy whole blanched
almonds and grind them yourself
than that's
fine but I wouldn't sub
almond meal from raw
almonds.
I find the texture of Bob's Red Mill much different
than the
fine ground blanched
almond flours.
I'm thinking that because KA brand is so
fine you're getting more
almond flour by weight in your final cookies
than one would with a coarser flour.
Almond flour is much
finer (so is closer to regular wheat flour)
than ground
almonds.
1 1/2 cup blanched
almond flour (5 oz)(or 1/2 cup coconut flour or 2.5 oz) 5 TBS psyllium husk powder (no substitutes)(45 grams)(must be a
fine powder, not whole husks) 2 tsp baking powder 1 tsp Celtic sea salt 2 1/2 TBS apple cider vinegar (1 oz) 3 egg whites (6 egg whites if using coconut flour)(about 3.5 oz for
almond flour option, 7 oz for coconut flour) 7/8 cup (a little less
than a cup) BOILING water (or MARINARA — for more Tomato Basil Bread!)
Almond flour is much
finer and I would assume it would bind much better
than meal.
For the
almond flour, I used blanched
almond flour which is
finer than ground
almonds (or
almond meal), but if you can grind it
fine enough, that should work.
Although either
almond or cashew butter is
fine, for these I generally prefer using cashew butter if possible as I think there's better pumpkin flavour and also the muffins are lighter in colour, more orangey, when made with cashew butter
than almond.
I also left my
almonds a little more coarse
than I normally would, but I recommend grinding them into a
fine meal if you want the truffles to be super smooth.
It includes more
than 115 recipes and only two of them use
almond flour — one is a dessert and one is a savory dish that will also work just
fine without the
almond flour.
This particular flour is just so much better for getting that delicious chewy texture due to its super
fine grind — so much better
than the grainy other
almond flours out there.
For those interested in trying out
almond flour recipes such as those from Elena Amsterdam, please note recipes would have to be adapted and you will need less of our
fine flour
than the equivalent amount of normal ground
almonds.
Standard Gluten Free Recipes such a Those by Elena Amsterdam will Need to be Adapated, You will Need Less of our
Fine Flour
than the Equivalent Amount of our standard Blanched Ground
Almond Flour
Almond flour is much
finer and is easier to digest
than ground
almonds.
Then I dehydrate them in my dehydrator until they are very very very dry, grind them into flour with my Vitamix dry blade and sift to create
almond four that is ultimately way more nutritious, cheaper, and
finer in texture
than what I can buy in the store.
I use Honeyville
almond flour which absorbs more liquid as it is
finer ground
than some
almond flours.