The first of many posts about food......and it's cookies
I love to bake. Cooking is great, we all have to cook to eat, but baking for me is like therapy that creates some delectable sweet decadence that you craft with time, skill, patience and love. And, I don't care if it's a double chocolate soufflé or Toll House chocolate chip cookies, I am going to do it right. I use the best ingredients I can find, start with basic recipes and then improvise from there for my needs.
It's also a great joy for me to see people enjoying what I have made. My poor son gets to be the guinea pig for many of my experiments and he absolutely loved these cookies, until he discovered the walnut pieces in them. Now I grew up in Southern Missouri and we used to pick black walnuts and take them to the dehullers to earn money for the annual school book fair. My Grandpa used to split the walnuts and show us how to eat the little meats from the shell. Those were real walnuts. I put English Walnuts in these cookies and the picky little snit wouldn't eat them. Oh well, more for everybody else.
Since I have adapted to a more Paleo diet, incorporating almond and coconut flours in place of all-purpose wheat flour has become a bit of chemistry experiment for me. Along with the use of more honey instead of granulated sugar, I am truly getting a kick out of tweaking my normal recipes with new ingredients like coconut oil and seeing if they turn out as well texture-wise and how they taste.
To my pleasant surprise, I am starting to figure this out. These little gems came out of the oven just like chocolate chip cookies should. Chewy, tasty and chocolate chip melty. They even held their shape well. They were a little coconutty yet, so I'm not ready to share the recipe until they taste more like traditional cookies, but I'm getting there.
I have shared a few of my adapted recipes and learned they don't always turn out for others, so until I can get these to a place of replication you're just going to have to drool over the picture. Once I do, though, the recipe will be shared. Promise.
It's also a great joy for me to see people enjoying what I have made. My poor son gets to be the guinea pig for many of my experiments and he absolutely loved these cookies, until he discovered the walnut pieces in them. Now I grew up in Southern Missouri and we used to pick black walnuts and take them to the dehullers to earn money for the annual school book fair. My Grandpa used to split the walnuts and show us how to eat the little meats from the shell. Those were real walnuts. I put English Walnuts in these cookies and the picky little snit wouldn't eat them. Oh well, more for everybody else.
Since I have adapted to a more Paleo diet, incorporating almond and coconut flours in place of all-purpose wheat flour has become a bit of chemistry experiment for me. Along with the use of more honey instead of granulated sugar, I am truly getting a kick out of tweaking my normal recipes with new ingredients like coconut oil and seeing if they turn out as well texture-wise and how they taste.
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| Paleo(ish) Chocolate/Butterscotch Cookies--Piping hot out of the oven. Super Yum!
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To my pleasant surprise, I am starting to figure this out. These little gems came out of the oven just like chocolate chip cookies should. Chewy, tasty and chocolate chip melty. They even held their shape well. They were a little coconutty yet, so I'm not ready to share the recipe until they taste more like traditional cookies, but I'm getting there.
I have shared a few of my adapted recipes and learned they don't always turn out for others, so until I can get these to a place of replication you're just going to have to drool over the picture. Once I do, though, the recipe will be shared. Promise.
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