(Cheap) Almond flour - easy to make and great to use!

Almond flour is a very good option if you want to replace (grain containing) flour in a recipe. It gives a great, rich and little sweet taste to a recipe and is especially great as a replacer of flour in sweet bakery recipes. This comes in really handy as I'm on a grainfree diet. But being grainfree isn't the only pro! It has all the benefits of eating nuts, your adding essential minerals, healthy oils, proteins, vitamin E, fibers, etcetera... to your baked goods. I for example used it to replace normal flour in carrot cake, pumpkin pie and banana bread. All turned out great!

But there's one little problem: almond flour is really expensive!
That's why I decided to learn how to make it myself. After reading about it I have to say 'learning' to make almond flour is an overstatement. It's super easy: just blend the right amount of almonds in your food processor untill it has the consistency of flour. That's it!
But watch out, don't let it blend for too long because the oils in the nuts will be released and your almond flour will turn into almond butter. Not a very hard recipe either :P!

If one cup of allround flour is used in a recipe you can replace it with about 0.75 cup of almond flour.

And there are so much grainfree variations on almond flour, what about sunflowerseed flour, pecan nut flour, cashew flour, sesame seed flour. The possibilities are endless. Just look up how much you need of your specific flour to replace the flour in the recipe.

ENJOY :)