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AquaticSub -> Meringue Chocolate Chip cookies (9/24/2010 7:44:05 PM)
Valyraen has been buying gluten-free chocolate chip cookies from a local market on a regular basis. After sampling them myself several times, I'm convinced that they have to be at least part meringue. They are very good but have more of that crunch of a hard meringue than of a traditional cookie. I'd like to try making something like this for him myself but don't even know where to start. I've avoided making meringues at all since my last experience ended up with a lemon meringue pie that was more like lemon soup. [:'(] Does anyone have recipes or tips that might help me out here? Val is trying to cut wheat out of his diet entirely but he misses his cookies!

DameBruschetta -> RE: Meringue Chocolate Chip cookies (9/24/2010 7:52:06 PM)
The hard part of gluten free baking is really going to be getting the flours right and in the right quantities. Does the bag have an ingredient list on it? Can you get a photo of what a cookie looks like?

AquaticSub -> RE: Meringue Chocolate Chip cookies (9/24/2010 8:01:10 PM)
The ingredients: Eragrostis teff flour(wtf is that?), brown sugar, pure semi-sweet chocolate chunks (sugar, chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, soy lecithin, salt), whole eggs, butter (contains milk and cream), gum arabic, leavening (baking soda, cream of tartar), salt, natural flavor, xanthan gum (wtf?) Edited cause it won't let me upload pics... grr....

Lockit -> RE: Meringue Chocolate Chip cookies (9/24/2010 8:02:49 PM)
What a sweet thing to do Aqua! I just found out I can't have gluten. My world is upside down! I'm going to be watching this thread closely for anything that might help me get something tasty and because I am so friggin hungry!

AquaticSub -> RE: Meringue Chocolate Chip cookies (9/24/2010 8:07:02 PM)
Ok... trying again... [image]local://upfiles/215572/65FD70698229412ABEFA761CE339CFAB.jpg[/image]

AquaticSub -> RE: Meringue Chocolate Chip cookies (9/24/2010 8:08:42 PM)
And from the side... [image]local://upfiles/215572/5CB546266B7D493AB8B6C3448641B62F.jpg[/image]

AquaticSub -> RE: Meringue Chocolate Chip cookies (9/24/2010 8:11:59 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lockit What a sweet thing to do Aqua! I just found out I can't have gluten. My world is upside down! I'm going to be watching this thread closely for anything that might help me get something tasty and because I am so friggin hungry! Awww! I suggest looking into spelt flour. It's great for cakes - they just won't rise as high normal. When I've tried to use it for cookies, it didn't work out so well but it does very well in my chocolate cake.

Lockit -> RE: Meringue Chocolate Chip cookies (9/24/2010 8:15:53 PM)
Thank you Aqua... After I read more, I remembered... this is all so new. I can't have many of the ingredients in something sweeter. I am googling and crying! lol

DameBruschetta -> RE: Meringue Chocolate Chip cookies (9/24/2010 8:28:12 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lockit What a sweet thing to do Aqua! I just found out I can't have gluten. My world is upside down! I'm going to be watching this thread closely for anything that might help me get something tasty and because I am so friggin hungry! Gluten free goods have a serious tendency to be well... disgusting. Its incredibly hard to get the texture right, and I've yet to really get bread thats close to real bread. If you want recipe, I greatly suggest the culinary institute's cookbook. All things considered, I haven't made anything out of their book that hasn't exceeded my expectations. (Most people suggest Hagman's books, personally I've found hers pretty lacking.) Its not quite the same but it has gotten me fairly close. Their flour blends also come in handy for other recipes. Aqua... I think you will have your work cut out for you on that one. Is it just that he really loves those cookies or is it that he likes the crunchy ones?

AquaticSub -> RE: Meringue Chocolate Chip cookies (9/24/2010 9:03:19 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lockit Thank you Aqua... After I read more, I remembered... this is all so new. I can't have many of the ingredients in something sweeter. I am googling and crying! lol It can be done, I swear! Our wedding cake gluten-free (granted made by a professional baker) and nobody noticed! Everyone loved it. They just added an extra cake layer per tier or something to make up for the height difference. I don't have a lot of recipes but I know that it really can be done. None of our guests realized there was a difference between the spelt tiers(we had four - two were spelt and two weren't) and the non-spelt tiers. Dame, This is not encouraging! LOL He seems to really love them. But maybe it's just that they are chocolate chip cookies that he can have without clogging up his system. I kinda feel like (having tasted them) that I could get a similiar result with meringue, cooca powder and chocolate chips. But I'm kinda scared to try!

DomKen -> RE: Meringue Chocolate Chip cookies (9/24/2010 10:26:40 PM)
That's not a recipe for a meringue cookie. For meringue chocolate cookies you want to whip egg whites, add 1/8 teaspoon of cream of tartar per egg white to stabilize.. beat to soft peaks, add a little vanilla and about 2 tablespoon of sugar per egg. beat to stiff peaks. Fold in 1 teaspoon of unsweetened cocoa powder per egg and a few chocolat chips. drop or pipe onto a cookie sheet. Bake at 300 for about 30 minutes. keep sealed in airtight storage or they will draw water out of air and become gooey in a bad way. That's from memory so it might need a little adjusting. However I can't remember the real name for this style of cookie and that's how I have my recipes organized.

angelikaJ -> RE: Meringue Chocolate Chip cookies (9/25/2010 8:33:51 AM)
Try this one: http://www.food.com/recipe/gluten-free-forgotten-christmas-cookies-271895

TreasureKY -> RE: Meringue Chocolate Chip cookies (9/26/2010 5:23:36 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: AquaticSub I'd like to try making something like this for him myself but don't even know where to start. I'd start with Google. A search for gluten free chocolate chip cookie recipes came up with many hits. Here's the first three: Recipe #1 Recipe #2 Recipe #3 As far as trying, I'd probably go with #2, first... it's an Alton Brown recipe.

angelikaJ -> RE: Meringue Chocolate Chip cookies (9/26/2010 2:46:02 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: angelikaJ Try this one: http://www.food.com/recipe/gluten-free-forgotten-christmas-cookies-271895 Hating to quote myself: I was in a rush but I should have added I had made these years a go (from a different source) and thought they were wonderful!

DesFIP -> RE: Meringue Chocolate Chip cookies (9/26/2010 2:47:53 PM)
If you do make meringue, remember not to do so on a humid day. The air needs to be dry for them to work. http://qctester.wordpress.com/2008/04/19/chocolate-chip-macaroons/ You could also search Passover baking recipes since many of them are flourless, using nuts instead.

MistressRosalyn -> RE: Meringue Chocolate Chip cookies (9/26/2010 3:02:10 PM)
Not sure if this will be helpful, or if I should make a new topic, but... Last year, I went completely raw. Now, if you think that just being without ONE ingredient for yummies is difficult, try being without almost everything, AND you can't cook it! The good news is that there are bunches of recipes out there for yummy things that satisfy your sweet tooth, and the other good news is that I lost 30 pounds doing it. Start with Heather's page, and go from there, there are thousands of recipes for yummy stuff out there! http://www.sweetlyraw.com/ Hope this helps!

DameBruschetta -> RE: Meringue Chocolate Chip cookies (9/26/2010 4:59:24 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: AquaticSub quote: ORIGINAL: Lockit Thank you Aqua... After I read more, I remembered... this is all so new. I can't have many of the ingredients in something sweeter. I am googling and crying! lol It can be done, I swear! Our wedding cake gluten-free (granted made by a professional baker) and nobody noticed! Everyone loved it. They just added an extra cake layer per tier or something to make up for the height difference. I don't have a lot of recipes but I know that it really can be done. None of our guests realized there was a difference between the spelt tiers(we had four - two were spelt and two weren't) and the non-spelt tiers. Dame, This is not encouraging! LOL He seems to really love them. But maybe it's just that they are chocolate chip cookies that he can have without clogging up his system. I kinda feel like (having tasted them) that I could get a similiar result with meringue, cooca powder and chocolate chips. But I'm kinda scared to try! I am at a loss here, because looking at your ingredients suggest that they don't use meringue... so you might be able to get similar results with less steps. Are they just airy crunchy cookies? If he just wants crunchy chocolate chip cookies thats not too hard to come up with. (Although you might have to try a few different ones to find the perfect balance.) There is a reason I just gave up on baked goods when I was gluten free, it was just easier ;) There are good recipes out there, but there are a lot of bad or sub par ones to wade through to find them. I fell in love with the culinary arts cookbook simply because I can pretty much pull any bread related recipe out of there and it will come out pretty decent. (Maybe not with the perfect texture you'd get with wheat but nothing I'd have to bin!) Ironically, when I went gluten free was when I fell in love with meringue cookies. Would he do triple chocolate cookies? I do have a recipe for those which comes out pretty good. BTW, teff flour is small grain gathered from a type of grass I've never used it much but a lot of people love it. Xanthan gum is a natural component that helps bind things together (its in a lot of ice creams) in gluten free items it replaces the need for the gluten you'd have from wheat.

DomKen -> RE: Meringue Chocolate Chip cookies (9/26/2010 5:37:54 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: MistressRosalyn Not sure if this will be helpful, or if I should make a new topic, but... Last year, I went completely raw. Now, if you think that just being without ONE ingredient for yummies is difficult, try being without almost everything, AND you can't cook it! The good news is that there are bunches of recipes out there for yummy things that satisfy your sweet tooth, and the other good news is that I lost 30 pounds doing it. The raw food movement is one of those things where the hype is much much bigger than the truth. The simple fact is our teeth, jaws and intestinal tracts are adapted to eating cooked foods. There are many foods (nutritive dense vegetables mostly) that we cannot digest enough to extract the vitamins and minerals we need. I'm not saying you can't live on a raw diet but that you are at much higher risk of a nutrition deficiency disease.

MistressRosalyn -> RE: Meringue Chocolate Chip cookies (9/26/2010 6:08:03 PM)
Dom Ken, I agree with you that being 100% raw is not the healthiest thing. I went raw for about 5 months, but had to stop because of other issues. The only point I was trying to make is that there are some truly yummy desserts out there that are not bad for you...unless you are allergic to large amounts of tree nuts, like me. The ingredients that they contain are not the difficult to digest ones, like cruciferous veggies. So again, for those who are trying to adjust to wheat/gluten/sugar/etc free diets, raw desserts may be the answer, and there are a wealth of sources out there...and there is nothing that says that you have to be 100% raw to eat the yummies!

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