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Substituting almond meal for flour in a cookie recipe?
The Earl Gray shortbread cookie recipe i'm going to use calls for 2 cups of all-purpose flour. I'd like to add the texture and taste of almond meal to this batch. Can i substitute some of the flour for the meal or does one add meal in addition to the 2 cups of flour? The recipe calls for no liquids so would i up the butter? Thanks in advance for the help.
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- Rli RLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
Since you are making shortbread cookies and not a cake, you should be able to get away with using the almond meal but use it as you would whole wheat flour - use no more than 1/3 of the amount of flour as the almond flour. There's no gluten in almond flour so it's binding capabilities are different from regular flour.
I wouldn't increase the butter in the recipe - just trade out part of the flour. Since your recipe calls for 2 cups of flour, I'd use maybe 1/2 but less than 3/4ths cup of the almond meal.
But if you really want it to have more of an almond flavor, add some almond extract to your batter in place of vanilla extract.
Hope that helps.
- fermoLv 45 years ago
Sure that you can sustitute the canola or vegetable oils for grapeseed . I believe it should be higher as grapeseed oil is kinda strongly flavored and you can alternative in general any nut for a different. Again I believe the pecans offers you a more buttery taste which must make the cookies tastier. I simply learned about the agave syrup. Pretty cool stuff.
