Almond butter cookies

I have been wanting to experiment with a cookie that didn't rely on any type of flour at all. Enter Karina's Kitchen Sunbutter cookies (in my case almond butter). This cookie contained only almond butter, eggs, brown sugar, honey, baking soda, vanilla, and a dash of salt.

From the picture on her blog, I imagined that these would have the consistency of peanut butter cookies, you know, the ones with the cross hatch? So, either I didn't refrigerate the dough long enough before baking, or almond butter has a more liquid consistency than sunbutter. Because while the cookies had great flavor, they spread out like thin crepe pancakes when baked.

My sister suggested that they'd be yummy wrapped around a scoop of vanilla ice cream, kind of like an almond butter cannoli. Hmm...

The doggie in the last frame is my mom's frenchie, Nigel. He had just gotten stung by a bunch of yellow jackets and was getting sleepy from the benadryl we had given him to counteract the sting. Poor thing:(

Crumbly Magic Blondies

Martha's magic blondies, er, muffins

I tried another recipe from Martha's Cookies book last night: magic blondies. From the picture and description, they promised to be dense, buttery blondies, in cupcake form. These were not. The flavor was good, but the consistency was more like a light, crumbly muffin; also slightly on the dry side.

I used the trusty brown rice flour, tapicoa starch, potato starch mixture, with a 1/2 tsp of xantham gum thrown it. While this combo works well for cookies, I wonder if I need to figure out a different formula for denser baked goods.

Pictures to come tonight.

Milk Chocolate Cookie Gallery

Not Martha's Milk Chocolate Cookies

This week, I revamped a recipe from Martha Stewart's "Cookies" cookbook. Instead of all purpose flour, I used a mix of brown rice flour, potato starch and tapioca flour. I also added a bit of xanthan gum to mimic the elasticity that you would otherwise get from gluten. The cookies had a soft, meringue-y chew with a rich chocolate flavor. Perfect as a cookie sunday with vanilla and fudge swirl ice cream! I'll post pictures in the next couple of days.