Cooking with Coconut Flour: A Delicious Low-Carb, Gluten-Free Alternative to Wheat by Bruce Fife
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Book Reviews of Cooking with Coconut Flour: A Delicious Low-Carb, Gluten-Free Alternative to Wheat
Book Review: Excellent book!
Summary: 5 Stars
I already have this book but bought this one for my daughter because she was always borrowing it. If you can't eat wheat flour or just want a healthy alternative then this book is a must. Coconut flour is high in fiber and tastes good but you can't just substitute it in your favorite recipes. This book explains how to use the flour and then has some excellent recipes. Peanut butter muffins are my favorite. I add a few chocolate chips to the recipe and I am enjoying every bite. I can't eat other grains at all so this book has been a blessing to me.Book Review: a little pricey but great recipes and information
Summary: 4 Stars
What I appreciate most are the explanations concerning substituting other sweeteners, etc.; best success with temperature of ingredients; and the variety of different recipes.Book Review: The only way to go
Summary: 5 Stars
We know why we buy coconut flour but how do you use it?
Well this book tells you how. Its different and has to be used in its own way. From personal experience the recipes work. No more gluten, no more wheat, hurrah!
Book Review: Great recipes, but calls for a lot of eggs
Summary: 4 Stars
I was interested in baking with coconut flour. I thought it would be a good alternative to brown rice flour. I bought this book a few months ago and have maybe made 3 recipes. The recipes call for a lot of eggs! My husband is allergic to eggs so this book is not right for our needs. I did make the Triple-Layer Chocolate Cake for a party and everyone loved it (though the recipe calls for 18 eggs!). The recipes also call for a lot of sugar which we limit in our family. The other recipe that we tried and liked is the Walnut-Raisin Muffins (I used coconut oil instead of butter and it worked great).
This book is great to add to your GF / CF library if you don't have a problem with eggs.
Book Review: Frustrating recipes
Summary: 1 Stars
I'm sorry but the recipes just do not work. I tried 2 recipes before writing this review. The last recipe was cinnamon cookies. It says to roll the cookies in cinnamon before baking but the batter is so liquid you can pour it. So my cookies are baking in a casserole dish as a small cake. I followed this recipe to the letter, because the first recipe I tried didn't work either but I changed an ingredient, so gave him the benefit of the doubt.
However, after reading the other reviews, maybe the muffin recipes actually work. I cannot eat wheat so I plan on trying a few more recipes because at least it can satisfy a sugar craving, but don't expect too much from this cookbook and be prepared to salvage the recipe.
My cookie recipe that I salvaged tasted good the next day, so that's a good thing, but the fact that I had to bake it like a cake, says a lot about the book.