If you give a mouse a rice flour cookie...

The other day, a good friend bought a mix and made me some chocolate chip cookies for small group Bible study. I love friends like that. :-) Anyway, after I went home, I was hungry for more chocolate chip cookies. Being a few days away from a grocery shopping trip to pick up a mix, however, I decided to look through my pantry and see what I could concoct.

The recipe on the back of the Ener-G potato starch flour sounded easy and I had all the ingredients. I ground up some rice flour (1 1/2 cups), dumped it into my wet ingredients, THEN read the instructions. Add 1 c potato flour and 1/2 c rice flour. Oops. For some reason I didn't question the fact that the recipe came on the back of the potato starch flour and yet didn't account for adding any of that particular ingredient.

Not being in a position ingredient-wise to triple the recipe, I decided just to go with it and give it a shot with 100% rice flour and no potato flour. I did, however, throw in some walnuts. I figured it might help the taste and if not, I was only out 25 cents worth of walnuts.

Here is the visual:

Apparently using the called-for ingredients is essential to them looking like cookies and not pancakes. They tasted decent, although a little gritty. Plus, they crumbled to dust when I tried to peel them off the foil, a situation I remedied by purchasing upon my next shopping trip a quart of vanilla ice cream and making my own wheat-free chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream.

I'm looking forward to attempting these again with the right flour mix and hoping for more cookie-like results. I have been very pleased with the Ener-G brand (and the recipes printed on the back of the box are great too!)