Recipe Connection: Grain-free Coconut Muffins (2024)

FAQs

Can I substitute coconut flour for desiccated coconut? ›

Desiccated coconut and coconut flour both come from coconut meat that has had its moisture content removed. The difference is that coconut flour no longer has the natural fat content of the desiccated variety, so they're not interchangeable.

Dry or Crumbly Muffins:

If you have dry or crumbly gluten free muffins, you need more liquid wet ingredients in your muffin batter. Every gluten free flour blend will have a slightly different amount of liquid needed. Blends with dried milk powder will need less liquid, but a starchy blend may need more.

Gluten-free muffin base ingredients:

avocado oil, or neutral oil of choice. milk of choice at room temperature - If you're dairy free, use dairy free milk. vanilla extract. 1:1 gluten-free flour - Buy a gluten-free flour blend with xanthan gum added.

Shredded coconut is a larger grated size than desiccated coconut. It is often used in baking delicious treats like no-bake coconut macaroons, homemade bounty bars or coconut cake.

In any recipe saying to use it, simply replace with any other cooking oil. Shredded coconut can mostly be replaced with coarsely ground or chopped nuts, and desiccated coconut with ground nuts. Both coconut and nuts have a decent amount of natural oil in them, so can mostly be substituted for each other.

Moisture. There are many ways to increase moisture in a recipe. In general, recipes that call for pureed fruit, sour cream or yogurt are ones you can rely on for a moist product. In case your recipe does not call for these things, using brown sugar instead of white sugar to add moisture.

Brown rice flour contains one single ingredient—brown rice. And while all brown rice flours are naturally gluten free, it's essential to check that the one you're using was made in a gluten free facility. In recipes, brown rice flour works best in bread, muffins and cookies.

Let Your Batters & Doughs Rest

This will give flours and starches time to absorb liquid, which will prevent your recipes from developing a gritty, sandy texture. We recommend covering your batters and doughs and letting them rest for at least half an hour.

Does oatmeal have gluten? ›

Yes, pure, uncontaminated oats are gluten-free. The U. S. Food and Drug Administration considers oats a gluten-free grain under its gluten-free labeling regulations and only requires that packaged products with oats as an ingredient contain less than 20 parts per million of gluten overall.

They are not the same. The coconut meat is ground, dried, then ground into desiccated coconut flour. Desiccated coconut flour preserves some of the coconut oil found in the flesh. Whereas, After the coconut meat has been squeezed for virgin coconut oil, it is used to make regular coconut flour.

Use a 1:4 ratio when substituting coconut flour with all-purpose flour. This means that for every 1 cup of regular flour, you only use ¼ cup of coconut flour.

A good rule of thumb is 1/4 to 1/3 cup of coconut flour for 1 cup of regular flour. When flour absorbs water, the starches gelatinize, but when coconut flour absorbs liquid it becomes soggy, resulting in a heavier, denser baked good.