SO MANY FLOURS!

potato starch.
chick pea flour.
sweet rice flour.
regular ol' rice flour.
corn starch.
tapioca flour.
almond meal.
xantham gum.
WTF.
gluten-free is flour-full.
it takes that many kinds of flour to make one flippin' cookie.
and even then,
they're good, but they're not real cookie good.
it must be difficult being glutarded, for sure.
it's difficult trying to make something expert with all those flours
stacked up against one wheaten white floury perfect batch,
but,
the things i'll do for the ones i care about are not to be dismissed.
i'll get it turnt up to eleven even if the drawing board gets revisited often.
these were closer than close to being great.
if you'd never actually had a cookie before,
you'd probably have lost your mind over how rad they were.
alas, i'm something of a snob in the cookie world,
so i have such a bias that i'm hard to please on a good day.
anyway, i got three dozen of these activated,
and with the addition of coconut and chocolate chips,
and a drizzle of icing,
the end result was worth a sh!t, and that's no joke.
check the teleport:

GLUTEN-FREE, neighbors.
an added degree of difficulty is not what i need.
but it's just What Is.
and that's actually sort of what i'm into a any rate, it seems.
maybe the harder way yields more rewarding results?
i dunno if that's 100% true, but i do know that that's the path i'm presently on.
making cookies without wheat, man.
and making them delicious.
with all those weird not-flour flours.
here's how it happened:
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GLUTEN-FREE COCONUT CHOCO-CHIPS!
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preheat your oven to 375℉
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in a medium mixing bowl, combine:
1 cup light brown sugar;
1 stick (8 T) vegan butter;
1/2 tsp salt;
1 tsp vanilla.
cream that up into a uniformly pasty moosh,
and stir in:
1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce.
next, add all the 'flours'-
1 1/2 cup almond-based mama's almond blend, whatever the eff that is;
1 1/2 cups all-purpose bob's GF baking blend;
1 cup large-flake coconut- unsweetened/unsulphured;
1 cup mini-baby vegan dark chocolate chips;
2 T cornstarch;
1/4 cup tapioca starch;
1/2 tsp xantham gum;
1 tsp ea baking powder and soda.
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it's a LOT, bruh, but that's what it takes,.
and the dough is STILL a wettish mess, after all that.
it's cool, though, because after 11 minutes, they looked good.
and they taste good. maybe a little light on the A*-end,
without a proper chain of proteins binding them together,
but, you'd swear they weren't trying as hard as they actually are
to be something more than all those effin' different powders combined.
the big coconut helps improve the softish texture a whole lot.
the chips add a little firmness that the flakes couldn't.
and in-between, the sweet sugary meltaway crumbs dissolve in your mouth.
they're weird.
they're also delicious.
that's good.
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and,
once they'd cooled off, the powdered sugar/non-dairy milk/vanilla combio icing
turned them up another 'notch.
and that was a damned good move, too.
y'know?
too much is the right amount,
and one more thing is always invited.
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one woman.
yup.
that's who got me started on all the wheat-rye-spelt-barley flourless baking.
uh-huh.
because you do the thing that needs doing,
and if you have all the feels for somebody,
you go with the feeling, right?
right!
and if that means that wheat is off the list,
well,
then you make the necessary adjustments.
obvi.
trial and error and force of will multiplied by insight and instinct-
because what the F* is recipes?
no, really, i have no idea.
i write 'em,
but i don't use 'em.
that's real.
....which brings us to now.
trying to decipher the correct combination of ingredients and steps
in order to create the right thing.
it's harder than the ol' standard,
but it's, like, not THAT much harder, really.
the complications of the non-traditional process aren't exactly prohibitive,
just more involved.
and who doesn't wish they were more involved in the creation of what they want.
i mean, c'mon.
if i've gotta get into it a little deeper,
then that's where i'm going.
i don't have a recipe for any of it, but i'm also not an idiot,
i'm figuring it out.
a little bit of learning and a whole lot better every time.
that's what's really happening.
and the learning curve is steep af.
feel the feels, learn the new rules, make it more awesome.
that's it;
never quiet, never soft.....