Almond flour, unlike plain wheat, has a tart spicy taste. It makes great desserts and pastries. You can cook such flour at home, and we will tell you how to do it.

Almond flour - how to make it at home?

The main product is almond nut. Its amount comes from what you are going to cook and how much flour you may need.

How to make almond flour:

  1. First you need to remove the husk.
  2. Under the tap, we wash the nuts, transfer to a deep bowl and pour steep boiling water.
  3. After 5 minutes, drain the water and remove the thin peel from the hot nuts.
  4. We heat the pan on the stove, load the nuts there and cook for 2 minutes. The surface of the dishes should be dry. Stir the almonds constantly so that it does not burn. Allow the pan to cool.
  5. Close them in the freezer for 20 minutes.
  6. Grind nuts in a coffee grinder or blender. To prevent future flour from sticking together, grind it together with powdered sugar.
  7. Load handfuls of nuts in several approaches. Turn on the blender for 30 seconds.
  8. Pour the resulting flour through a sieve. Grind the remaining pieces in the sieve.
  9. It is better to harvest flour in advance and store in jars.

Almond flour cookies: recipes

Try adding almond flour to your homemade cookie recipe, and you will feel how the taste immediately changes, becomes refined and tender.

French macaroon cookies

You will need:

  • white sugar - 80 g;
  • almonds - 130 gr;
  • two eggs;
  • vanilla sugar - 40 gr;
  • salt - 5 gr.

Cooking in stages:

  1. Prepare the almonds according to the above instructions. Grind it into flour without lumps.
  2. Pour the squirrels into a separate bowl, pour salt to them. Beat the mass with the addition of granulated sugar until it is completely dissolved. Then pour vanilla sugar and process the mixture until solid peaks form.
  3. Pour almond flour and mix, making sure that the foam does not settle
  4. The resulting dough is divided into three parts. We will prepare food colors in two colors.
  5. Pour blue dye to the first bowl with the dough, red to the second, and dry cocoa to the third.
  6. We collect the dough of different colors into the confectionery syringe and squeeze it onto a baking sheet covered with parchment. It should be a little round. We fill them with the whole baking sheet.
  7. Warm the oven thoroughly, then turn it off and put cookies in it for half an hour.
  8. Combine the cuverture with whipped cream and close in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
  9. Put another on one colored round of dough, placing a layer of filling between them.
  10. The most delicious and beautiful dessert is ready. Have a nice tea party.

Oatmeal pastries

Such cookies are especially nice to eat at breakfast, washed down with milk or kefir.

Main Products:

  • salt - 6 g;
  • one egg;
  • a piece of butter - 170 g;
  • almonds - 10 gr;
  • baking powder for dough - 5 gr;
  • oat flakes - 190 gr;
  • almond flour - 100 gr;
  • brown sugar - 70 gr.

How to make almond flour cookies:

  1. In a blender bowl, grind 140 grams of oatmeal. We will use the remainder as a whole.
  2. We combine almond flour, salt, crushed oatmeal and brown sugar in one dish.
  3. Pour the chicken egg and transfer a piece of melted butter. We form the dough from the mixture.
  4. Pour whole flakes and mix.
  5. We spread the balls of dough on a baking paper spread on a baking sheet with a spoon.
  6. Press almonds into each cookie.
  7. Bake for 25 minutes in an oven heated to a temperature of 170 degrees.
  8. We cool the delicacy and serve it to the table.

How to Make Amaretti Cookies

This dessert is the perfect complement to aromatic coffee for breakfast.

The composition of the recipe:

  • chopped almonds - 390 gr;
  • three chicken proteins;
  • sugar - 80 gr.

Step by step cooking:

  1. We turn on the oven in advance, let it warm up to 150 degrees.
  2. Cover baking sheet with baking paper
  3. In a food processor we turn peeled almonds into flour.
  4. Pour sugar into it and grind it for 15 seconds.
  5. Add the egg whites and continue to beat until a soft dough is formed.
  6. Scoop out the dough with a teaspoon and put it on parchment for baking.
  7. Cooking cookies in the oven for 25 minutes.
  8. Cool the dessert and serve it for tea.

Delicious honey treat

You will need:

  • a pinch of salt;
  • sesame seeds - 35 gr;
  • almond flour - 0.15 kg;
  • nut paste - 100 gr;
  • baking powder dough - 3 gr;
  • honey - 125 gr.

Step-by-step instruction:

  1. We combine salt, almond flour and baking powder in a spacious bowl.
  2. Pour honey into a separate bowl and add nut paste to it, mix.
  3. Now combine the contents of both bowls and mix the mixture with a fork first.
  4. A thick, soft dough should form.
  5. In small pieces, tear off the dough from the kolobok and form small balls out of them, no more than a walnut.
  6. In a saucer, pour sesame seeds and roll dough products in it.
  7. We spread on the surface of the parchment. We flatten each of them with the bottom of the cup on top to a thickness of 0.5 cm.
  8. We bake in the oven, heated to a temperature of 170 degrees 15 minutes.
  9. Carefully remove them from the baking sheet on plates and serve for tea cooled. Bon Appetit!

Almond chocolate chip cookie

Grocery list:

  • water - 18 ml;
  • icing sugar - 310 g;
  • dark chocolate - 100 g;
  • egg whites - 4 pcs.;
  • dry soluble coffee - 7 g;
  • peeled almonds - 130 gr;
  • wheat flour - 50 gr;
  • cocoa powder - 200 gr.

Cooking step by step:

  1. Pour the squirrels into the bowl and turn them into foam using a mixer.
  2. Pour sugar powder to the proteins through a sieve, mix.
  3. We combine in a separate bowl cocoa, wheat flour, dry coffee, pour water and mix the mass with a mixer for about 5 minutes.
  4. Grind pieces of chocolate and peeled almonds in a blender or in a food processor.
  5. Combine the proteins, a mixture of cocoa and ground almonds in a common bowl and mix.
  6. We spread a teaspoon of a lump of the resulting baking sheet. Pre-cover the baking sheet with baking paper.
  7. It remains to bake them in an oven heated to 180 degrees for 15 minutes.

Almond flour sponge cake

Almond flour gives the dough a delicate, mild flavor and a delicious aroma. Sponge cakes are light and airy.

What you need to take:

  • baking powder for dough - 10 gr;
  • 10 chicken yolks;
  • vanillin - 1 g;
  • sugar - 105 gr;
  • starch - corn - 85 gr;
  • almond flour - 65 gr;
  • seven proteins;
  • wheat flour - 85 g;
  • vegetable oil - 60 ml;
  • warm water - 30 ml;
  • sugar - 120 g;
  • salt - 2 gr.

How to make almond flour biscuit:

  1. Pour 120 grams of granulated sugar into the yolks and beat them. Add water, oil and vanilla.
  2. Continue whisking until a thick mass forms.
  3. In a separate bowl, combine starch, almond and wheat flour, and baking powder.
  4. Add the bulk mixture to the yolk mass. Mix everything.
  5. Pour salt into the egg whites and shake with a mixer. Pour 105 grams of sugar and continue to process proteins until strong peaks.
  6. Gradually combine the mass of yolks with proteins.
  7. Lubricate baking paper with butter and cover it with a baking dish.
  8. Pour the resulting air dough into a mold and put it in a preheated oven.
  9. Baking time - 40 minutes. The temperature of the oven is 170 degrees.
  10. We put the finished biscuit in the refrigerator for 5 hours. After that, you can make a cake or cakes out of it. Have a nice tea party!

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