On the Farm: Recipe for Acorn Cookies
Fresh Acorn Cookies
Now I am going to share with you a couple of recipes that you can make using fresh acorns. To learn more about acorns check out On the Farm: Acorns Are For Squirrels and how process fresh acorns so you can use it in recipes here is a post On the Farm: How to Prep Acorns for Cooking.
Once you are ready to use your fresh acorn meal or flour here is one of the recipes you can try:
Acorn Cookies:
- 2 cups All Purpose Flour
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
- 1 cup Brown Sugar
- 1/2 cup Shortening
- 1 large Egg
- 1 cup Acorn Flour
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. In a separate bowl mix the flour, baking powder, and salt. In a larger bowl cream the shortening, egg, and sugar together. Gradually add the flour mixture to the cream mixture. Blend in the acorn flour. Add the vanilla extract until blended well. Take a medium size ice cream scoop and place onto a greased cookie sheet. Use a fork to slightly flatten the balls. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes.
Freshly scooped cookie dough.
Cookie sheet full of cookies ready to go into the oven!
The cookies are not as moist as a Chocolate Chip Cookie but not as dry as Shortbread Cookies. They are a little dryer then I expected but they turned out pretty well. We shared this recipe with our Community Group and people at Jake’s work. It was a fun recipe do make and share with others. I would make sure that those eating do not have a nut allergy. It provides an interesting conversation started and you are sure to be the only one at the event with Acorn Cookies! Now if I can just find an acorn cookie cutter. Stay tuned for some more of our acorn recipes in upcoming posts!
Recipe adapted from Grandpappy
