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Part of my food goals for 2012 was to try using more natural sugars in place of traditional ones in my cooking and baking. I didn’t state it at the time, but I also wanted to move away from white flour as much as possible, and replace it with whole grain varieties.
When I came across the following cookie recipe, I was delighted to learn that it insisted I use nothing but pure whole wheat flour. I’ve also heard of folks swapping out the wheat grain for a gluten-free variety, and they’ve had great success with that as well. This is really a recipe that allows you to use whatever works best for your dietary needs, while still enjoying the taste of a classic chocolate chip cookie.
The original recipe calls for granulated sugar, but I have used organic cane sugar and muscavado sugar in its place, and both worked brilliantly. I have left the recipe intact from the original version, but if you’re interested in trying alternative flours and sugars, this would be a good base to start from.
Have you tried baking with new varieties of flours and sugars? If so, please share some of your favourite recipes with us!
Find the full printable recipe here: Whole Grain Chocolate Chip Cookies
The idea of making no-knead bread has been circulating around the Internet for a few years now, but for good reason. Ridiculously easy to make, baking up a daily batch of rustic crusty bread seems almost too good to be true—but it isn’t.
I’ve been using this method to make our bread for at least two years now. Sometimes I fall off the bread-making wagon, but I’m on it more often than not, simply because there are few things I enjoy more than a slice of crusty bread, especially when topped with a hunk of aged cheddar and a dollop of jam.
Two of the most popular methods are Jim Lahey’s No-Knead Bread and the technique used in the book Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day. My way of doing it takes the best of both recipes and combines them to make something slightly easier, if that’s even possible.
Have you tried no-knead bread? Would you make bread for your family on a regular basis?
To see the full printable recipe, click here: No-Knead Bread
