I first used almond meal in a recipe I was trying for a flourless crust. It was a cookie crust to be covered with pudding and cream cheese and whipping cream. When my first crust made of plain rice flour (grainy and crunchy) failed, I dragged out the almond meal that was languishing in the freezer and threw it in with butter and sugar and it was delicious.
Almond Crust
1 cup almond meal, 3 TBS butter, 1/3 cup sugar. Blend together and pat into a pie pan. Bake 10 minutes and then cool and then fill crust with your favorite delicious filling.
GF Almond Cookies I have a delicious one of these and I will find it I promise--soon.
But how could any crust go wrong under all that?
Truly, almond flour (meal) really makes a light flaky delicious crust. It's a great flour for cookie crusts in pies, cheese cakes, and I really thinkg that it would be a great addition to a graham-like cracker.
I use almond meal daily as part of my 8 flour mix.
Here are some websites to view: http://almondflour.homestead.com/
Gluten free heaven has a wonderful almond muffin GF/CF http://glutenfreeheaven.blogspot.com/2008/11/gfcf-banana-almond-butter-muffins.html
You can grind your own almond meal/flour. I tried to use my blender. It's a K-Tec-"Will-it-Blend" (see You-Tube) and baby, will it blend. It blends almonds into butter before I know it, so I tried to grind almonds with rice in my spice grinder and that didn't work and then someone recommended that I use a food processor, and that works great. It grinds to just the right consistency.
1 cup almond meal, 3 TBS butter, 1/3 cup sugar. Blend together and pat into a pie pan. Bake 10 minutes and then cool and then fill crust with your favorite delicious filling.
GF Almond Cookies I have a delicious one of these and I will find it I promise--soon.
But how could any crust go wrong under all that?
Truly, almond flour (meal) really makes a light flaky delicious crust. It's a great flour for cookie crusts in pies, cheese cakes, and I really thinkg that it would be a great addition to a graham-like cracker.
I use almond meal daily as part of my 8 flour mix.
Here are some websites to view: http://almondflour.homestead.com/
Gluten free heaven has a wonderful almond muffin GF/CF http://glutenfreeheaven.blogspot.com/2008/11/gfcf-banana-almond-butter-muffins.html
You can grind your own almond meal/flour. I tried to use my blender. It's a K-Tec-"Will-it-Blend" (see You-Tube) and baby, will it blend. It blends almonds into butter before I know it, so I tried to grind almonds with rice in my spice grinder and that didn't work and then someone recommended that I use a food processor, and that works great. It grinds to just the right consistency.
Almond Poppy Seed Muffin Mix
See my recipe for these. They are delicious.
See my recipe for these. They are delicious.
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