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My time to shine! Hazelnut Choc Chip cookies, designed for Aquafaba. NB. You can switch out more of the hazelnut/almond meal to adjust the taste, but don't go
by gregoryl 6y ago
My time to shine!
Hazelnut Choc Chip cookies, designed for Aquafaba.
NB. You can switch out more of the hazelnut/almond meal to adjust the taste, but don't go much below 1/2 cup of almond!
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1 & 1/4 cup almond meal
1 & 1/4 cup hazelnut meal
1/2 cup dark chocolate chips
2/3 cup flour (gluten free blend works fine)
2/3 cup raw sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt (ideally fine)
Mix above together, set aside.
1/2 cup aquafaba
Separately, whisk aquafaba until fluffy
6 tbsp coconut oil (liquid)
1 tsp vanilla extract
Add to aquafaba, whisk until combined
Add dry ingredients from above
Mix until tacky dough forms
Place in fridge for 30 minutes
Preheat oven to 190C
Form a ball from about 1.5 tablespoons of dough.
Place ball onto baking paper lined tray.
Bake in oven for about 15 minutes.
- xbar 6y agoThank you! I can't believe you have been here all along, hiding this.
- vnxli 6y agoGreg’s been holding out on us
- snet0 6y ago> don't go much below 1/2 cup of almond Is this just for taste reasons?
- gregoryl 6y agoTexture and cost. The hazelnut meal tends to be a bit coarser, and is significantly more expensive, so you end up with gritty cookies that don't taste significantly more like hazelnut for more $$.
- lapinot 6y agoWaw, i'm surprised almonds are more expensive than hazelnuts where you are! I didn't check but i believe that in france hazelnuts are cheaper. What is sure is that the tree is far more common (in personal gardens).
- drewm1980 6y agoChild labor on hazelnut farms in Turkey: https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/articles/addressing-child-labor-on-hazelnut-farms-in-turkey https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/articles/addressing-chil...
- smolder 6y agoThey said hazelnut is more expensive than almonds. Did you make a typo?
- gregoryl 6y agoMelbourne, Australia. I'd love cheap hazelnut meal, its roughly 5 times more expensive than almond.
- fnord123 6y agoAll comments about measuring solids by volume should go under here.
- jeopardingo 6y agoI want to see everything in grams!
- gregoryl 6y agoIt's largely ratio based, so adjust the units as you see fit. I've made batches 4x the listed size, keep under that or it gets super unwieldy.
- _Microft 6y agoThe ingredients do not have the same density, therefore it will not work to go from a volume-based to a mass-based measurement system by simply replacing the unit.
- gregoryl 6y agoIt's a convention for baking I think. The choc chips will vary in size (I just smash up a block of cooking chocolate), but unless you go to extreme piece sizes, it won't have an impact on the chemistry if you're a little heavy/light (I vote heavy!)
- justincormack 6y agoIts an American convention. Europe mostly uses weights.
- masklinn 6y agoPretty sure professional US bakers also work by weight. It’s much simpler and more reliable, especially when you have to deal with aerable dry goods (flours, powdered sugar, cocoa powder) or solids (butter).
- studius 6y agoOk- so... when I don't wash the aquafaba off of the beans in cooking, I get- let's say- "bloated". I can only imagine eating these could result in a rough approximation of the decibel level of the Dragon taking off from Launch Pad 39A.
- gregoryl 6y agoLikewise. My brother drinks it (he also drinks the water from when you boil cabbages, hes a strange unit.). I don't get that effect from the cookies, likely because its a fairly small amount across a lot of cookies.
- jonahx 6y agoThose look really good -- how would it taste different if you used egg white instead of aquafaba?
- ohadron 6y agoMonospace font for a recipe - a nice touch for the HN crowd.