cookies, sugar, marmots

[darkoshi]

I baked chocolate chip cookie bars tonight, yay! With regular flour, and they turned out good. Yum.

Yesterday I tried out a recipe I found for a chocolate mug cake using green plantain flour. It turned out bitter and not sweet. I suppose I'll still eat it, but I hope the other recipes I found mask the bitterness better. I thought I'd read somewhere that plantain flour is bitter when tasted raw, but not after cooking/baking.

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I emailed an organic sugar company to request them to consider selling their product in paper packaging like normal sugar, instead of in plastic bags and plastic jugs.

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Watch this endangered marmot play with a wildlife camera

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Comments

[frith]

Yeah, "organic" sugar in plastic bags is really off message, you'd think they'd be a wee bit more aware of what they're doing.

If plantain flour is supposed to be less bitter after cooking (unlike, say, fresh citrus) perhaps you could cut the cake into cubes and re-bake it in something sweet or use it as a bitter accent as a crumble, say a crust to a custard pie or a topping on a coffee cake or apple crumble? What else could be better with a bit of a bitter bite?

[darkoshi]

Using the bitter one to make a pie crust sounds intriguing. Maybe I'll make a chocolate chip cookie pie using the coconut flour and see how it turns out! Although if I had enough fruit, a fruit crumble sounds good too.

[frith]

Bitter chocolate pie... that could work!