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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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Ingredients
| 2½ cups gluten free flour (350g) |
| ⅔ cup teff flour (70g) |
| ½ tsp baking powder |
| ½ tsp baking soda |
| ½ tsp salt |
| 1 cup butter, room temperature |
| ¾ cup white sugar |
| ¾ cup packed brown sugar |
| 2 eggs |
| 1 tsp vanilla extract |
| 2 cups chocolate chips |
| ½ cup chopped hazelnuts |
Directions
- 1
- In medium bowl whisk together flours, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
- 2
- In large bowl of a stand mixer on high speed cream butter until smooth.
- 3
- Add both sugars and continue beating until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Scraping down the sides of the bowl.
- 4
- Add eggs and vanilla beating until smooth.
- 5
- Add flour mixture until combined evenly.
- 6
- Add chocolate chips and nuts. Beat just until combined.
- 7
- Cover the bowl of cookie dough with plastic wrap and refrigerate over night or at least 30 minutes.
- 8
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- 9
- Make dough balls using a small scoop.
- 10
- Place cookies on a cookie sheet at least 2 inches apart. Bake for 11-13 minutes until they are golden brown and the edges are set. Rotate the cookie sheet half way through the baking time if needed to bake the cookies evenly.
- 11
- Cool cookies on the cookie sheet for 5 minutes then transfer to a wire rack. Cool completely before storing.
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I found these cookies to be crunchy and full of good flavor. Used Bob’s Red Mill, oatmeal flour and the Teff. I only baked a dozen for starters. They didn’t flatten much. Next dozen, I pre-squoosed them, and lowered the oven temp to 325. They are perfect. I love chocolate chip cookies, and am very happy with the look, taste, and texture of these.
Hi Shelley, that’s great to hear! I’ve used oat flour in many baked goods with success. I love that you just baked 12 first, made adjustments and improved. Sounds like you’ve got a recipe worth repeating. Now, if I could just get my hands on one of those cookies! 🙂
Hi Cinde, I also made your banana muffins next. They were wonderful. Thanks you for your help in learning about these flours.
That’s great Shelley! You’ll have to try the Banana Muffins and substitute some of the flour called for in that recipe with teff flour. It goes good with chocolate so a handful of chocolate chips might be nice too. I’m happy to hear you’re learning about all the flours.
I did that, Cinde, with the Teff. Really liked it. Making the cookies again this evening. Nice flavor.
Awesome Shelley, now you’ve inspired me to make these cookies again. I must have been thinking about the other chocolate chip cookie…excuse my COVID brain. 🙂
Hi There,
at which step do you add the flour to the butter sugar mix?
Hi Rachel! Thanks for pointing out that mistake. I’ve fixed the recipe now but you add the flour after the eggs. I hope your cookies turn out!