Hi! Newbie here.
I just bought some coconut flour to try. Has anyone had success with this?
Any tips? I was thinking about trying to make chocolate chip cookies. Any great ideas?
Thanks!

Saw this, and thought i'd post it for you. From Ursula:

Check out this new coconut flour Dr. Mercola is selling, it looks promising!

http://www.mercola.com/products/coconut_flour.htm

Thanks! Hope it tastes good!

I'm looking for even one recipe for muffins, cake, bread or something using this GREAT coconut flour, which doesn't contain and depend upon EGGS to work. I've tried and tried, but have only produced gummy failures. The nutritional/fiber value of this flour is really substantial and I'd love to use it Anybody?

Yes!! I have a great recipe. (It also on www.recipezaar.com Recipe #205618.) My kids and husband (all gluten eaters) love these.

They are fluffy, moist and don't taste gluten free. Takes 2 minutes to mix them up. Coconut flour is high fiber, and expensive, but you use very little. Play with it, it's great. Trust me.

Oh, one more tip, they can stick. I use the natural paper liners, and they work great with these. If you don't use liners, grease VERY well.

3 tablespoons butter, melted (or coconut oil)
3 eggs
1/3 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 cup coconut flour
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1 mashed banana
chopped nuts (optional)
toasted coconut for tops (optional)

1. Just mix up the ingredients.
2. Scoop batter in a muffin tin with liners.
3. Bake 15 min at 400 degrees.
4. Enjoy!

I used it in meatballs. Really good! Can't really use it in baking because the recipes for it call for so many eggs and we're allergic to eggs. I highly recommend it.

Thanks a million to Slackermommy!
I made the banana muffins tonight.......I even added some ground flaxseed and they were awesome!!! The texture is so totally not the dry gluten free texture I am used to!
Yeah!

Hi Everyone,

I have a question about the coconut flour. I found coconut powder at the asian market and wonder if it is the same as coconut flour? It has a grainy look rather than smooth like I would expect a flour to look.

Elaine

I'm new and would also like to learn more about coconut flour.

I can't have eggs at all, and don't do so great with bean flours or potato or corn starch.

If I could figure out what proportions of rice flour, coconut flour, and perhaps arrowroot...or quinoa...or millet...or sweet rice flour....any combination of these (!) that I could use to substitute cup for cup in egg-free baking recipes, my life would be nearly complete....

Coconut flour is supposed to absorb a lot of water, and my egg-free experiments were dry, crumbly rocks that did not rise. Xanthan gum only made them into something that was oddly crumbly and spandex-like at the same time.

Could a mix with sweet rice flour help keep it moist?

When working with coconut flour, would there be an advantage to using baking soda & acidic liquid as the leavening agent, instead of baking powder? (Baking powder was what I used with my flops.)

How about 1/3 brown rice, 1/3 sweet rice, 1/3 coconut? Does it have to have tapioca or white flour?

I'm curious if anybody has tried something similar....I would be grateful...

huevo_no_bueno- (great name btw..yo amo el espanol ) Try coconut milk in your baking. This keeps gluten-free recipes moist, although I can't speak to egg free ones. My cousin is also allergic (we learned that the hard way with an anaphylactic reaction at the Passover table when she was a baby...poor kid) but she can have gluten. I've never baked without both.

How terrible for your cousin! I found out through standard food allergy testing.

Coconut milk--I'll try that. I am starting with recipes that don't call for eggs (from Gluten Free Vegan by Susan O'Brien and Gluten Free Kitchen by Robin Ryberg) but I need to replace some of the flours (no cornstarch, potato starch, or bean flours for me).

I'd also like to find a 1-1 baking substitute mix (home-mixed) for wheat flour that I can use with my old cookbooks. I have one cookbook, Small Batch Baking, which calls for wheat and eggs, but the batches are so small that I think I would be able to successfully make them with a rice and/or coconut flour mix and replacing the single egg most of the recipes call for. Many of the recipes also call for just a few tablespoons of flour.

What do you think coconut flour is most like? The bean flours, because of the protein?

I'm going to look around on the site for flour mixes......

Heres food for thought....i purchased this flour as well.... in the same store came across a cookbook.....Cooking with coconut flour by Bruce Fife, N.D....this has been a very helpful tool for me as well.....i also cook with coconut oil...this cookbook has quick breads.....muffins...cookies...crackers....cakes...pies...pasterys...etc....one thing about this cookbook though they use alot of eggs or egg replacer.....one that i have tried is a coconut bread truly amazing!!!!

Chirunner,

I tried using some of those recipes and replacing the eggs--no luck! So I sold the book to a used bookstore.

I'm having better luck now with making egg-free, gluten-free cookies, using coconut flour, tapioca starch, and sweet rice flour (two parts coconut, two parts tapioca, one part sweet rice and one part buckwheat). They have to be really chocolatey or spicy, however, to mask the extra flax and baking soda tastes. I can't use egg replacer because it has potato starch in it.