Replace ingredients for cookies

The problem with the lack of ingredients for the cookies is not just the time it takes to buy that one item. Often you want to bake exactly when the shops are closed. Here are a few replacement tips that grandmothers already knew in wartime:

Replacing basic ingredients for cookies - tips

• Don't have enough flour? Then replace some (not all!) Of ground nuts, coconut flakes or cornstarch. Also semolina that you can do again in a grain- or you can use a coffee grinder to grind very finely.
• Do you need more sugar? Then just use a part honey or maple syrup for the recipe. You may need a little more flour to get the consistency of the dough right again. Icing sugar can also replace normal sugar. And if there is no other way: use
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  syrup or bright jam for sweetness. Or you can grind up some sweetener tablets if you have them.
• You don't have enough Eggs as ingredients for baking? Part of the eggs can also be easily replaced (but not the egg white for coconut macaroons!). Use lightly foamed canned milk, a little yoghurt, quark or cream as an egg substitute. Well-stirred coconut milk can also be used.
• You don't have butter in the house? This should be the smallest problem. Simply replace the required amount of butter with margarine. Then season that dough with butter flavor, if available.


Baking cookies without flour - two recipes

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Special Ingredients - Instructions for Substitution

• If a recipe calls for a certain type of nut, such as almonds, you can this also with other nuts such as hazelnuts, sunflower seeds, walnuts or even coconut flakes substitute. However, you have to accept (small) changes in taste.
• If you need a small amount of marzipan, you can replace it with potato marzipan, just like grandmothers did in times of need. Mash some cooked ones potatoes and season this porridge with powdered sugar and amaretto or bitter almond flavor. You can also put some ground nuts in this marzipan substitute.
• Icing sugar, for example for glazes, can be replaced with normal sugar. However, you should grind the sugar very finely two more times in a (cleaned) grain or coffee grinder.
• If a spice is missing, things get difficult. The typical taste of cinnamon or gingerbread spice is very difficult to imitate. However, you can crumble whole cinnamon sticks very finely and into something rum or liqueur soak for some time. The alcohol takes on the taste and can then (remove the cinnamon sticks again) be used for the cookie dough.
• For many flavor notes such as rum, vanilla, lemon or orange there are ready-made (artificial) aromatic oils that you can actually always have at home. In fact, they have a very long shelf life. However, these ingredients can also be replaced with corresponding liqueurs or syrups.