can i use this instead of flour for baking? Also is the taste far off from regular flour?
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You can NOT just substitute this for regular flour in your baking. You should get on the Internet and research recipes calling for Almond Flour. It is wonderful to make gluten free cakes and brownies with, but needs adjustments when substituting for flour. Regular flour tastes like powder and this is ground nuts.
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I use this mainly for gluten free baking, I would say no ...this almond meal/flour should not directly replace regular wheat/white flour, depends on your recipe(s)
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Oh no... Follow whatever recipe you are using! But if you are using a regular 'non-gluten free' recipe, you may have to reduce your liquids some (this flour is moister than regular flour). I have played around with our family recipes until I found the right consistencies. The results are the same or even better than using regular flour! And as Becky said... check out www.pamelaproducts.com.
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No, not at all. I use it in most of my baking and love it. The baked goods tend to be less dense than with regular flour.
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the package says it is ok to use for baking. however i have never tried it.
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WE haven't made biscuits with this flour yet. we use it as a wheat flour replacer. We have made several cakes and the turn out really good. a little dense, but the taste is good.
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I started using 00 flour recently and just used the same pizza recipe I always use with the same measurements. The crust was lighter and has a nice crisp to it which I love. I will have to tell you that because this flour is so much finer, it does get everywhere. IT was fun to clean up! LOL
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Hi Linda, I use organic oat flour in all sorts of muffin and cookie recipes. Take a look at the King Arthur Flour website. Click on recipes then search for oat flour. Two of my favorites from there are the Berry Good Muffins and the Cranberry and Flax Oatmeal Cookies. I also bake a lot of bread and use it in almost all of my whole grain bread recipes. It is easy to add to "non-oat flour recipes" by substituting oat flour for some of the regular flour. When I'm doing loads of bread baking, I create my own "custom blend" of flours: 2 parts white whole wheat, 2 parts unbleached flour, & 1 part oat flour. I hope this helps. Denise
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I made a chocolate cupcake recipe that came out very well. They state on their website that this flour really thickens up when adding liquid, and to add extra moisture when using it. I'd go to their web site and read more about baking with this product- it is helpful. As long as you are not trying for something too delicate, this flour works very well. And yes, I used 3/4 flax flour to 1/4 rice flour. That helps lighten things up a little.
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No, it is not ground wheat (flour). This is hard red, unmilled wheat. You would need a grain mill if you wanted to turn it into flour.
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I have had much success using this flour for baking bread, I use a traditional recipe and oven bake my bread. I do not use a bread machine.
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There is an organic version of the perfect flour blend. The 5lb bag of it can be found in Costco. However, it has a very earthy, dirt-like taste that is hard to overcome unless heavily flavored. I wouldn't recommend the organic version for that reason. The original version tastes much more like normal flour.
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Misty I have been using recipes that are made to use almond flour. Since there isn't any gluten it will not rise like bread flour. So no just substituting will not work in some recipes.
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I just made zucchini bread using this cup-for-cup in my recipe. While mixing I quickly saw there wasn't enough moisture, so I added more zucchini & a little water. Baking time seemed to be less, but I just did one trial loaf instead of my normal two loaves, so maybe that was the difference. The loaf didn't rise quite as much as with wheat flour. The taste isn't very good & was also bland with a poor mouth feel. I'm thinking that this might be due to not decreasing the flour to 3/4 cup. I'd appreciate any input so I don't waste this expensive flour!
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I have never tried it in baking, but it has less water content, you would have to play around with the liquids in your cakes and cookies.
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I bake a lot pastries, cheese pies, cupcakes, soft cakes with nuts and fruit and it is really remarkable flour. However i have not baked a bread. This one is very soft flour so really not sure. I see people use another one for bread thats sold in 25pound bag but is whole wheat, brand Great River Organic Milling and i am planing to order the same but for bread once i buy the bread machine :) hope this helps
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3 and 1/2 grams per 2 Tablespoons. I used this to make some muffins (Pina Colada) and I was very disappointed at the results. I followed a recipe from a book about cooking with coconut flour, so it wasn't that I had substituted anything. The batter was more like dough and the muffins were very dense. And the second day, they fell apart when you tried to eat one. Left a funny aftertaste too, but that might be from the sugar substitute (Splenda) than the flour. I haven't used any more since.