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Old Mon, Jun-30-08, 11:04
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Does anyone cook with coconut flour? I have been reading so many good healthy things about it. I love coconut. I cant find it at my local health food store (actually most of the health food stores say they havent heard of it and I just could not believe that) so I have to take a little drive to get it. I always use virgin coconut oil in alot of things.
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Old Mon, Jun-30-08, 12:26
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Sure. Coconut flour can be used in a ton of baking stuff and is pretty similar to ordinary cakes in result. I got mine at tropicaltraditions.com (tons of coconut stuff, organic), but I think bobsredmill.com and netrition.com probably also sell it. I got a book 'cooking with coconut flour' that is useful. I made coconut crepes for my kid Sunday, came out fine. Going to try a flax/almond pancake with modifying the recipe now. I prefer to mostly eat MEAT, EGGS, some veggies and berries, and everything else a trivia, but it's nice to have coconut, almond and flax for occasional treats!
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Old Mon, Jun-30-08, 12:46
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I was thinking about getting that cook book as well as Coconut lovers cook book. So u think the cook book is useful and u use it also?
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Old Mon, Jun-30-08, 13:10
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I use it all the time for baking. You just need to remember that coconut flour is really thirsty stuff and soaks up liquid like crazy. I like to use it to make a version of the mock danish, "mock cupcakes" - basically I add 1-2T coconut flour and extra liquid (cream, water) and divide it into 2 ramekins. Nuke for 2 minutes - it dries out more and is more cake-like. Also makes it less "eggy" for those who are turned off by that. I have a recipe for a single serving lemon cake w/CF in the sweet treats section too - really good!

Oh, it's also good for breading chicken.
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