Almond flour: How to make it at home

It's Sunday night and I'm making some almond flour cookies for our weekly sweet fix.  The last few times I've used almond flour I've been making it at home.  It's pretty easy, so I figured I would just show you how to make it. 

When I buy almond flour
When I purchase almond flour my favorite brand to use is Honeyville Grain (http://www.honeyvillegrain.com/).  I've always purchased their blanched almond flour and it works very well for both cooking and baking.  If you're wondering what "blanched" almond flour is, it basically is the almonds with no skins.  I really haven't noticed a difference when I use unblanched flour (with skins), and I hear unblanched is more nutritious.  I've used other brands from local grocery chains and I haven't been very happy with the cooking results, so Honeyville would be my recommendation.

Items you will need to make almond flour
Almonds
Food processor/coffee grinder (I use the magic bullet)
Sifter

How to do it

• Place almonds in the grinder (usually 1/2 to 3/4 cups at a time)
• Pulse the almonds until the texture is medium to fine.
• Be careful not to overgrind as the oil in the almonds will start to heat up and make the flour clump together.
• Pour the ground almonds (almond meal) into your sifter and sift the almond meal into a selected container.
• You will have some chunks that will not make it through the sifter.  You can either discard or put back into the grinder (i tend to discard.....err....eat them).

• 1/2 cup of raw almonds will equal 1/2 cup of almond flour when finished.  
• You can store homemade flour in your fridge for up to 30 days.

Now you have almond flour and we have cookies!  Have a great week!  Bobby and Danielle