We are in the middle of a cold snap and I find myself wanting to huddle by a hot oven bake everything.
With that as my motivation I finally got around to playing with my recipe for chestnut flour cookies. I call it 'my' recipe because I could not find a grain free version of chestnut cookies anywhere. So I made one up based on an old biscotti recipe I got somewhere, perhaps that Italian cookbook translation...
Chestnut flour is great for grain free baking if you like the taste. This is one of the few flours I do store in the freezer, I find that the flour can go off quickly.
As always there are many ways to tweak this recipe, I know I am not done with it. You may need to adjust the dry ingredients if your eggs are smaller. It's possible to swap the butter out with coconut oil, switch the maple syrup to honey, add nuts or chocolate or stevia to make them sweeter... but please enjoy them however you make them.
Chestnut Biscotti
Mix together
1/4 c soft butter
1/4 c maple syrup
2T almond extract
2 eggs [I used 'jumbo' ones]
Stir in
1 1/2 c chestnut flour
1/2 c almond flour
1t baking soda
1t salt
Chill the dough if it is too soft for you to handle.
Divide dough in half and make two flattened logs of dough, ten to twelve inches long, on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet.
Bake at 350 for about 20 minutes.
Remove dough logs to rack to cool and turn over down to 300.
Fifteen minutes later slice logs up into short slices and lay them down on parchment paper lined cookie sheet. Bake about ten minutes then flip slices over and bake about another ten minutes.
They should be dry and crunchy. Typical biscotti.
If needed immediately hide half of them so that the people you live with do not eat them all the first day. Cozy wishes out to all.
With that as my motivation I finally got around to playing with my recipe for chestnut flour cookies. I call it 'my' recipe because I could not find a grain free version of chestnut cookies anywhere. So I made one up based on an old biscotti recipe I got somewhere, perhaps that Italian cookbook translation...
Chestnut flour is great for grain free baking if you like the taste. This is one of the few flours I do store in the freezer, I find that the flour can go off quickly.
As always there are many ways to tweak this recipe, I know I am not done with it. You may need to adjust the dry ingredients if your eggs are smaller. It's possible to swap the butter out with coconut oil, switch the maple syrup to honey, add nuts or chocolate or stevia to make them sweeter... but please enjoy them however you make them.
Chestnut Biscotti
Mix together
1/4 c soft butter
1/4 c maple syrup
2T almond extract
2 eggs [I used 'jumbo' ones]
Stir in
1 1/2 c chestnut flour
1/2 c almond flour
1t baking soda
1t salt
Chill the dough if it is too soft for you to handle.
Divide dough in half and make two flattened logs of dough, ten to twelve inches long, on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet.
Bake at 350 for about 20 minutes.
Remove dough logs to rack to cool and turn over down to 300.
Fifteen minutes later slice logs up into short slices and lay them down on parchment paper lined cookie sheet. Bake about ten minutes then flip slices over and bake about another ten minutes.
They should be dry and crunchy. Typical biscotti.
If needed immediately hide half of them so that the people you live with do not eat them all the first day. Cozy wishes out to all.
5 comments:
I have recently fallen in love with almond flour and would love to take chestnut flour out for a test drive! Unfortunately, it feels like spring around here. I want to haul out the grill and mix green salads!
These sound great! I've never used chestnut flour before, I'll be on the lookout for it.
B --Warm enough to grill sounds wonderful right now, barbecue meat with kelp noodles, yum.
T --whole foods should have it. :)
They sound lovely can't wait to try them with tea.
Love biscotti. Ate it regularly on the west coast, but now that I have returned to North Carolina, it's more difficult to find. Nice blog work. I came across your blog while “blog surfing” using the Next Blog button on the Nav Bar located at the top of my blogger.com site. I frequently just travel around looking for other blogs which exist on the Internet, and the various, creative ways in which people express themselves. Thanks for sharing, and best wishes for the New Year.
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