Anyone bake with almond meal in place of flour??

Just curious if anyone uses almond meal as a substitute for flour?

I do!    Well, sort of.  I use almond flour, not almond meal.  The diffference is probably texture or the coarse/fine of the grind.

Anyway, I especially like it in cookies -- in oatmeal cookies I substitute directly for the all-purpose flour in my favorite recipe.  Taste is the same, they are  tad crumblier.

In other cookies and cakes I have had to experiment with substituting.  I have found I can always substitute for half, and usually more.

I also tried peanut flour for peanut butter cookies and I did a dark choco chip cookie with half almond flour half peanut flour.  That was excellent.  Not a normal chocolate chip cookie, but really good.

Oh, I use Splenda for the cookies in full substitution of the sugar. 

I think the fact we can have fat makes the baking possible with such great results.  If you have to substitute low fat ingredients it will take more experimentation.

good luck!

I use almond flour for some recipes.  There is a web site called Elana's Pantry which is a really good place to start.  I've made recipes from her site with great success.

http://www.elanaspantry.com/ingredients/blanched-almond-flou r/