These are delicious gluten free chocolate chip cookies with teff flour. Another chocolate chip cookie recipe you say? Two in a row!

Yes. Life is too short to have only one chocolate chip cookie recipe.

Every home cook needs a few good cookie recipes up their sleeve and I imagine a chocolate chip cookie at the top of the list.

Baking with Teff Flour

Have you heard of teff or teff flour? It has hints of malt and cocoa that make it ideal for recipes with chocolate, cocoa or brown sugar. I wrote a whole post on How To Use Teff Flour if you want to learn more. Chocolate chip cookies with teff are an obvious choice but teff flour is also ideal for brownies, pancakes and waffles.

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Adapting Recipes with Gluten Free Flours

If you want to try teff flour the general guideline is to include 10 – 20% of teff flour in any gluten free flour blend you’re making. To keep it simple I used 2½ cups of my homemade gluten free flour mix and then added ⅔ cup of teff flour.

Chocolate Chip Cookies with Teff

In my post for chocolate chip cookies last week I shared some tips for baking gluten free cookies. Those cookies are best if the dough sits for 30 minutes. This time allows the gluten free flours and starches to hydrate. You can even let the dough sit over night but for kids that can sound like cruel and unusual punishment. You decide how long you can wait.

Consider hiding half of the dough balls in the back of the fridge or even freeze them. Cook one half of the dough balls right away and enjoy. In a day or two cook the rest. Do the taste test and see if you can tell the difference. Repeat as often as you like.

This recipe is adapted from Shauna Ahern, once known as The Gluten Free Girl. Shauna is an author and serious yet playful baker, who inspired me when I first began gluten free baking. She has generously shared her vast knowledge of gluten free baking and knows how to have fun in the kitchen.

Shauna is my kind of girl. She’s got her kids in the kitchen and she believes, like I do, everyone can and should know how to bake…and baking cookies is a great place to start.

Get The Tools – Everyday Bake Ware

Many of my pans are more than ten and twenty years old. It takes time to collect good quality pans but it’s worth the effort. Pay attention to the type and size of pans you like and work well for you. Then work toward a collection like this so you can bake cookies, brownies, muffins and the occasional cake.

• -two cookie sheets , notice they have no edges
• -two jellyroll pans, also know as baking sheets, with ¼-inch sides all around (used more for cooking but helpful for a cookie baking spree)
• –two 8-inch square baking pans for brownies and cakes
• –two 8-inch round baking pans if you like round cakes
• –muffin tins ; 6 or 12 cups per tin
• –mini muffin tins; 12 or 24 cups per tin
• –metal scoops in various sizes for muffins, cookies, meatballs and more

What about you, did you make these chocolate chip cookies with teff or another flour? How did they compare? Let me know in the comments below if you tried these and what you thought.

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