10 Easy Almond Flour Recipes

Almond flour has become a popular healthy flour to use in gluten free baking! What is it? Almond flour is essentially finely ground almonds. It makes a delightfully chewy chocolate chip cookie and a crispy, crunchy quiche crust. While it can’t be swapped for all-purpose flour as a one-for-one substitute, combined with other ingredients it makes for a lovely texture that’s nutrient dense and protein packed. Alex and I love making almond flour recipes: here we’ve rounded up our favorites and a little more about this tasty flour!

Almond flour vs almond meal: what’s the difference?

Good question! Both are made from ground almonds. Almond flour is made from blanched almonds (almonds with their skins removed) and is ground very finely. Almond meal contains the skins, making it brown in color instead of off-white, and has a coarser grind than almond flour. (Read more here: Almond Meal vs Almond Flour.) In many recipes you can use the almond flour and almond meal interchangeably. But to get the right texture, some recipes absolutely need the almond meal since it’s fluffier! The chocolate chip skillet cookie below really needs almond flour: if it’s made with almond meal it’s much too dense. However, the chocolate almond cake below can be made with either one! The bottom line: Make sure to follow exactly what the recipe specifies, especially for items that need a fluffy texture like cookies and waffles.

Can you make almond flour at home?

You can! However, unlike oat flour which is very easy to make at home, almond flour is harder because you need blanched almonds and you need to get the almonds to a very fine texture. Therefore, we tend to buy almond flour at the store; these days it’s available at most grocery stores. Head here if you’d like to try making homemade almond flour. But let’s get to the recipes already!