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Chocolate Chip Cookies

31 Tuesday Oct 2023

Posted by dhw in Baking, Food, Recipe

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A low carbohydrate (although not necessarily low calorie) cookie. Please note that this recipe depends on a number of ingredients that you may need to mail order. This is a 1-1-1 ratio cookie (1 part sugar, 1 part fat, 1 parts flour), and will therefore spread when baking. This recipe makes about a dozen cookies.

Ingredients

  • 1 TBSP Water
  • 1 tsp Golden Flax Meal
  • 1/4 tsp Vanilla extract
  • 1/4 tsp Baking Soda
  • 60g Sugar Substitute (Besti Allulose/Monk Fruit recommended)
  • 60g Ghee
  • 60g Carbalose flour
  • 30g Chocolate Chips (ChocZero recommended)

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350F (or 325F if using convection)
  2. Combine the water, vanilla, baking soda, and flax meal into a small bowl and mix well
  3. Cream the sugar into the Ghee
  4. Blend the flax mixture into the creamed sugar
  5. Blend in the flour until fully incorporated
  6. Add in the chocolate chips
  7. Using two small spoons, separate the dough into roughly a dozen equal sized balls. Then use your hands to turn them into small flat cylinders.
  8. Place the cookies on a cookie sheet, keeping them well separated.
  9. Bake the cookies for ~8-9 minutes. The cookies are done (but will be soft) when the edges are just browned.
  10. Let cool. Or eat immediately. Chocolate chip cookies are like that.

Almond / Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies

22 Sunday Oct 2023

Posted by dhw in Baking, Food, Recipe

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A low carbohydrate (although not necessarily low calorie) cookie. Please note that this recipe depends on a number of ingredients that you may need to mail order. This is a 1-1-2 ratio cookie (1 part sugar, 1 part fat, 2 parts flour), and will therefore be soft but will not spread when baking. This recipe makes about a dozen cookies.

Ingredients

  • 60g Sugar Substitute (Besti Allulose/Monk Fruit recommended)
  • 60g Ghee
  • 1 TBSP Water
  • 1/2 tsp Vanilla extract
  • 1 tsp Almond extract
  • 100g Carbalose flour
  • 20g Almond flour
  • Raspberry Jam (ChocZero Raspberry recommended)

Instructions

  1. Combine the water, vanilla, and almond extract into a small bowl
  2. Cream the sugar into the Ghee
  3. Blend the water and extracts into the creamed sugar
  4. Blend in the flours until fully incorporated
  5. Shape the dough into a small cylinder (the wider you make the cylinder, the larger but fewer cookies you will end up with), and wrap it in plastic wrap or equivalent
  6. Place the dough in the freezer to firm up (~10 minutes)
  7. Preheat the oven to 350F (or 325F if using convection)
  8. Cut the dough into slices (cutting across the long axis, so that you end up with many small discs rather than a few long oblongs).
  9. Placing each slice onto a firm surface (cutting board or plate), gently press down in the center with your thumb, while using your other hand to help the disc hold its shape and not split
  10. Using a spoon, fill the indent with the raspberry jam, and place on a baking sheet
  11. Bake the cookies for ~12-14 minutes. The cookies are done (but will be soft) when the top edges are just browned.
  12. Let cool.

Easy Rolls (Gluten-Free, Low Carbohydrate Quick Bread)

17 Saturday Jun 2017

Posted by dhw in Baking, Food, Recipe

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This is a fairly simple recipe for a quickbread, but it does require one unusual ingredient.

The base of this is the curds from clabbered Kefir. Simply let a live culture Kefir (the final liquid, not the mother colonies that you use to make it) sit out at room temperature for a day, and clabber up. Then drain the whey from the resulting curds.

Ingredients:

  • 1/2 cup Golden Flax Meal
  • 1 cup clabbered Kefir curds (loosely packed)
  • 2 cups Almond Flour
  • 1 tsp Sea Salt (fine)
  • 4 large eggs
  • 1 TBSP Double acting Baking Powder
  • 1/4 cup (one stick) unsalted Butter

Instructions:

Oil a pan (either of these works well) with a little bit of a neutral oil. Heat the oven to 325 degrees (300 if you are using a Convection oven).

Combine the flax meal, curds, almond flour, eggs, and salt in a mixing bowl, and mix well.

Melt the butter.

Add the Baking Powder to the batter, and mix well. Then immediately, add the melted butter, and again, blend well.

Divide the batter equally into the wells in the pan (this recipe will fill either of the two pans listed above).

Bake for 45 minutes. Remove from the oven, and immediately remove from the pan and onto a cooling rack.

Calzone / Pigs-in-blanket / Apple Dumpling Dough

03 Sunday May 2015

Posted by dhw in Baking, Food, paleo-cuisine, Recipe

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Here is another variant for baked goods.

Ingredients

  • 175 grams Almond Flour
  • 2 TBS Golden Flax
  • 2 TBS Powdered Psyllium Husk
  • 1 TBS Baking Powder
  • 2 TBS Powdered Cream Cheese (optional)
  • 1/2 tsp Salt
  • 1 Cup Boiling Water

Instructions

Preheat an oven to 350 degrees.

Combine the dry ingredients in a bowl, and mix well. Add the boiling (and I do mean boiling) water, and blend well. This gives you the dough.

Take a blob about the size of a golfball, and press it flat in a tortilla press. If you don’t have a tortilla press, you can roll the dough out, but that will take longer. This is a forgiving dough, if it tears, you can press it together or patch over it.

Wrap the items to be baked, and place on a baking sheet. For these, I prefer the USA Pans cookie sheet. Bake for 30-45 minutes, turning as necessary to get all sides a solid deep brown.

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