Holiday Baking Tips with Flourish Flour
The holidays are a time for baking, and with Flourish Flour, you can create delicious and festive treats that everyone will love while secretly increasing fiber! Flourish Flour is a versatile flour that can be used for a variety of baked goods, including cookies, pies, and breads. It has a medium protein content and creates a good balance of texture and flavor. Unlike other flour substitutes, it won’t alter the flavor making it an easy switch to enhance your diet this holiday season while still making your family's favorite recipes!
Here are 8 tips when baking this holiday season:
- For chewy cookies, add an extra egg or substitute the egg for applesauce
- For a flaky pie crust, use very cold butter.
- For a moist and flavorful cake, use buttermilk.
- Don't overmix your batter. Overmixing can make your baked goods tough or spread.
- Let your baked goods cool completely before frosting or decorating.
- Prepare your pie dough ahead of time and freeze it in pre-portioned containers that will be ready to thaw and roll out.
- Bake your bread ahead of time and freeze! When you're ready to enjoy it, defrost the bread in a low temperature oven
- You may notice your recipes will need a little more liquid (water, milk, or fruit juice) when using our flour.
- For breads, rolls, and other yeast-raised baked goods: Increase liquids ¼ cup (60g) at a time until you reach the desired dough consistency.
- For cookies: Increase liquids 1 tbs. (15g) at a time until you reach the desired batter or dough consistency.
- For brownies, quick-breads, muffins, pancakes, waffles, pie crusts and more: Increase liquids 2 tbs. (30g) at a time until you reach the desired batter or dough consistency.
With Flourish Flour and these tips, you're sure to create delicious and festive holiday baked goods that everyone will love!
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