These buttery-sweet Tigernut Flour Shortbread Cookies are grain and nut free plus tremendous easy to make and additional decadent dunked in a silky carob coating!
And so the weird flour experiments proceed.
Or extra precisely the grain-free flour experiments, since coconut flour isn’t actually uncommon anymore. Or possibly simply non-oat flour experiments, that’s actually the frequent thread right here.
First I dabbled in almond flour baking with this buttery tart. Then there was banana flour within the type of this cake I can’t cease craving. After which there was coconut flour in the best recipe I believe I’ve ever posted. And now tigernut.
I kinda need to circle again round now–funky flours spherical 2. Or possibly transfer on to cassava flour subsequent, that’s one I’ve been that means to do a recipe with for some time now however in some way each time I order a bag your entire contents disappear within the type of mini donuts…oops!
However I digress. Again to tigernut…
Regardless that autocorrect has not but acknowledged tigernut as a factor, the grain-free baking world appears to be all about proper now. It’s gluten-free, grain-free, nut-free, and truly constructed from tiny tubers. Plus it conjures up psychological photos of a ferocious jungle cat in my thoughts each time I say it, which isn’t one thing that may be mentioned for a lot of different baking substances.
Grain-free recipes. In my very own life, I’ve been sticking to a largely grain-free food plan currently for the sake of a cheerful intestine. And I need to say it has been serving to immensely! Adjusting to this completely different means of baking and all these new flours has been difficult and stuffed with fails, however enjoyable nonetheless. There are nonetheless many issues I’ve not but discovered tips on how to make with out my go-to oat flour, which is why the grain-free recipes have been simply slowly beginning to pop up round right here. However there will likely be extra to come back, so I hope you might be having fun with them too.
Tigernut flour. I first tried tigernut flour in these cute mini raspberry muffins from Meals By Mars, as a result of Alison is just about a professional with the grain-free baking. Then extra just lately I revisited it in these cute little chocolate cookies from my pal Mandy over at Be Sol-Ful Residing. Though I sadly didn’t get a photograph of these as a result of…nicely…it was late and darkish and so they had been very yummy.
The feel of the flour jogs my memory considerably of almond flour, though it’s a lot decrease in fats so not as naturally buttery. The flavour (particularly in these mini muffins) could be very paying homage to cornmeal or cornbread for my part. It’s not tremendous bind-y by itself, so usually utilized in mixture with different flours, though for these Tigernut Shortbread Cookies I did use it alone and employed coconut butter to assist maintain issues collectively.
Different shortbread necessities. I modeled this recipe very carefully off of a traditional shortbread cookie recipe. They’re often fairly easy: flour, butter, sugar, and vanilla. That’s it. No leavening brokers. Typically salt, nevertheless it’s non-obligatory.
So sticking with that easy theme, my more healthy grain-free model is: tigernut flour, coconut butter, maple syrup, and vanilla.
AIP-friendly. Since tigernut flour will not be solely grain-free however AIP-friendly (one thing else I’ve personally been dabbling with currently) I caught to that theme in my selection of “chocolate” coating. So whereas it appears like these shortbread cookies are chocolate dipped, they’re really carob dipped.
As an alternative of utilizing melted chocolate, I created a carob sauce with sifted carob powder (as a result of that stuff may be critically lumpy!) and coconut oil so it might harden within the fridge. You would add maple syrup to sweeten, however carob is way sweeter than cacao powder for my part so I don’t even assume you want it. Or you may simply use melted chocolate in fact when you don’t care in regards to the AIP half.
Take pleasure in their buttery-delicious taste plain. Dip in melted chocolate or carob. Or share together with your favourite ferocious jungle cat pal!
Or in case you are looking for a equally easy cookie however with good outdated oat flour, could I counsel -> THESE
Tigernut Flour Shortbread Cookies
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook dinner Time: quarter-hour
Complete Time: 25 minutes
Yield: 6 cookies 1x
Description
These buttery-sweet Tigernut Flour Shortbread Cookies are grain and nut free plus tremendous easy to make and additional decadent dunked in a silky carob coating!
- 1 cup tigernut flour
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1/4 cup coconut butter
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Pinch of salt ((non-obligatory))
Carob Coating (or you should use melted chocolate if not following AIP)
- 1/3 cup carob powder, sifted
- 1/3 cup coconut oil, melted
- 2 tbsp maple syrup ((non-obligatory, carob powder is considerably candy on it’s personal so I didn’t use it))
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 350F.
- Mix all of the cookie substances in a mixing bowl. Combine to type a barely sticky dough.
- Divide the dough into 6 balls (they’re pretty giant cookies, be happy to make 10-12 smaller cookies).
- Prepare on a baking pan lined with parchment paper. Press to type cookies, optionally utilizing a cookie cutter to make excellent circles.
- Bake for quarter-hour at 350F. Allow them to cool utterly earlier than dipping.
- For the carob coating, whisk collectively the sifted carob powder and melted coconut oil. Or soften the chocolate chips in case you are going with that possibility.
- Dip the cookies partway into the carob coating. Lay on a plate/pan lined with wax paper. Chill to set.
- Take pleasure in! Maintain within the fridge.
