Today, a recipe for soft cookies: coconut and aquafaba treats.
Abracadabra, Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo, Sim Sala Bim!!! No, you won’t need all these magic spells to make the liquid you find in chickpea cans or bean cans fluff up!!!!
Yes, that little water we usually throw away is actually a great substitute for egg whites in many recipes, especially vegan ones. I confess that at first, I was a bit skeptical about its use, but now I never throw it away. In fact, with aquafaba, that’s what it’s called, it’s possible to make many delicious recipes like these excellent coconut and aquafaba treats.
Cakes, cookies, crackers, and much more…..you’ll see, from now on you won’t throw it away either.
For aquafaba to fluff up, it needs to be very cold. You can use either the cooking water from chickpeas or beans (cannellini or red) that we cook ourselves, or the one we find in glass jars. I recommend using the liquid from the jars because home-cooked ones don’t always have the necessary protein content to fluff up.
Now let’s see together, step by step, how to make this recipe.
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- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Very cheap
- Preparation time: 5 Minutes
- Portions: 15
- Cooking methods: Oven
- Cuisine: Anti-waste
- Seasonality: All seasons
- Energy 85.36 (Kcal)
- Carbohydrates 10.00 (g) of which sugars 5.65 (g)
- Proteins 0.96 (g)
- Fat 5.20 (g) of which saturated 0.00 (g)of which unsaturated 0.00 (g)
- Fibers 0.11 (g)
- Sodium 0.90 (mg)
Indicative values for a portion of 20 g processed in an automated way starting from the nutritional information available on the CREA* and FoodData Central** databases. It is not food and / or nutritional advice.
* CREATES Food and Nutrition Research Center: https://www.crea.gov.it/alimenti-e-nutrizione https://www.alimentinutrizione.it ** U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2019. https://fdc.nal.usda.gov
Ingredients
Below you will find links to some of the ingredients used
- 2.5 oz Aquafaba
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1.5 cups coconut flour
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
Tools
Below you will find links to some of the tools used to make the recipe
- 1 Stand Mixer
- 1 Baking Pan
- 1 Parchment Paper
- 1 Hand Mixer
- 1 Scale
Steps
Making coconut and aquafaba treats is really very simple. First, we have to take care of the aquafaba, which must be very cold, so pour it into a bowl and whisk it using an electric beater or a stand mixer. It won’t be necessary to beat it to stiff peaks but just slightly whipped. It will take a few more minutes compared to egg whites, don’t worry and don’t rush.
When the aquafaba is ready, add the sugar and flours into the bowl and mix for a couple of minutes to combine the ingredients. This step can also be done with a spatula or spoon, stirring well. You will obtain a crumbly but fairly compact mixture.
Once we have obtained our mixture, we can make the balls, so take a piece of dough of about 20/25 grams (0.7/0.9 oz) and form a ball. Compact the portion of dough in the palm of your hand and then roll it on your hand with the help of the fingers of the other hand. Place the coconut and aquafaba treats on a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Bake in a preheated oven at a temperature of 320 degrees Fahrenheit (160 degrees Celsius) for 25/30 minutes. If you want to save time in cooking, I recommend flattening the balls so that they are thinner and therefore quicker to cook.
Una Riccia advises
With this recipe, you can make excellent cookies to eat for breakfast or to add to your ice cream. In this case, you should make them thin and bake them for about 10/12 minutes.
