Substituting Almond Flour for Regular Flour

UltraRunnerGale

Does anyone know that if you are trying to substitute almond flour for regular flour, are the amounts the same?? TIA

Duck_Puddle

It depends what you’re making. Regular flour has properties that almond flour does not. If you’re baking things, gluten is an important compound to give things the texture you’re expecting. Regular flour also thickens liquids in a way that almond flour doesn’t.

Almond flour is just ground up almonds. It can provide bulk to things, and can work as a substitute for regular flour depending on what you’re making. You may need slightly more or less liquid depending on the specific brand and how finely the almonds are ground (and the product you’re making, your altitude and whether or not you’ve added something like xanthan gum).

Baking with alternative flours tends to be a very trial and error process.

If you’re not baking with it, you may be more ok with a straight substitution.

PurpleSparkles85

Having to become gluten free, I can tell you that there is no straight substitution for any flour, even the best so called “1to1” gluten free flours are a blend of several flours and slightly off. Nut flours don’t absorb like regular wheat flour and things like coconut flour absorb a lot more and you need to add liquid. Try to use a recipe, Pinterest has tons. I’m still trying to get it right, it is very difficult.