Is there an alternative or better choice of flour??

I am really trying to learn to cook and I want to try apple nut muffins and pumpkin roll, but I only have all purpose flour.  Is there an alternative or a at least a better choice of flour that I could use, so that I can have a bite of these tasty treats?

Thanks, Lisa

This is so funny because I just found this article while searching for Almond Flour. I wondered if anyone would be interested. Hope this helps you. Christine (internetnut)

I make almond flour in a miniature food processor (I own an Oscar), or in a large high quality food processor (Cuisinart). Coffee grinders work, too. I have successfully used both “whole raw” almonds with the skins still on, and “blanched almonds”, which do not have the skins and therefore have less fiber and a slightly higher carb count.

Just fill the bowl of the machine you are using to the halfway point - no more than that - and pulse the machine on and off until you have a fine consistency. If you must, you can fish out any few stubborn nuts from each batch, rather than over-process the rest. When using those two types of almonds, I found that I could let the machine run for a long time without ending up with almond butter. Now, I don't have a burr grinder to test with, but I suspect that it would work fine. I tested the grinder attachment on my Kitchen Aid stand mixer and it was a total flop - so don’t bother trying that.

Don’t expect a fine powdery flour - your end result will be closer to a “meal” than a true flour, and the two terms are often used interchangeably.

My end results worked satisfactorily in recipes, and it was definitely both cheaper and fresher to do it this way, but my final take on the matter is this: if time is a big deal, and if you can find what you want, just buy the pre-ground stuff and enjoy it! I myself found this task to be unnecessarily time consuming, given my schedule. It definitely works, though.

If you want to make almond butter, or any other nut butter, I recommend toasting the nuts first at 325 for about half an hour. Adding a little Davinci syrup in the same flavor as the nuts you are using makes it even better. I recently made Toasted Hazelnut Butter in this manner and, well… I may never buy peanut butter again!

I buy my own almond flour and pecan meal most often from The Low Carb Connoissuer when I don't want to make it.

I get whole wheat flour from Walmart

I just picked up whole wheat flour and I'm going to make pumpkin rolls.  I am going to try grinding the almonds for a batch of apple muffins and see how that works too.

Thanks for the suggestions.
Lisa

If you want your muffins to be low carb then use the almond flour.  If you don't really care about the carb count then go with the whole wheat flour.  Carbs are killer to us during the wl phase so that may be a consideration!

Coconut flour (no carbs in this), carb quick (few carbs) , ground flaxmeal (no carbs in this), almond flour, carbalose (few carbs),  Pecan flour (hard to find, little carbs), macadamia nut flour...(tastes great, low carbs, easy to use)

The list goes on and on for those products we can use to bake and put into our recipes, so don't be afraid to use them...so work better than others depending on what you're gonna make with it...

T.

I did see ground flaxmeal at my local walmart, but honestly didn't know what it was and stayed away.  I am printing out this list now and heading out in the morning.  Thank you all.
Lisa

Lisa, you can use ground flxmeal to fry fun foods in too....like cheeses, mushrooms and CHICKEN!!  Low carb friend chicken....low carb fried everything....so ice with ground flaxmeal..but try not to burn any of these since they are nut based and will trun bitter if you brown them too much...

Lots of my recipes that I've posted in this forum, use one or more of these....

T.

I am so happy I found this forum.  I was just saying to family how I have no desire to eat anything because I couldn't figure out how to make recipes healthier.  (as you can tell, I am definitly culinary challenged.)  I can spend days just looking through the recipes forum.  Thanks so much for your help, I'm sure I will need it again!
Lisa

Do you have Trader Joe's in your area? They have great prices on flaxmeal and almond flour.