Snack

Almond flour cheese straws

Name: Almond flour cheese straws
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 8 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 5½ oz Almond flour; 7 oz Sharp cheddar; 3 oz Butter; 2 Eggs; Cayenne pepper, half a teaspoon, at least; Sea salt, to taste

A dough with no gluten in it cannot be twisted, so these are cut straight and left straight — and cayenne is not optional, because the heat is what stops them tasting like plain baked cheese.

2gnet carbs

26gfat

10gprotein

280kcal

Per serving30 minServes 8

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Ingredients

For the whole dish · serves 8

Almond flour5½ oz
Sharp cheddar7 oz
Butter3 oz
Eggs2
Cayenne pepperhalf a teaspoon, at least
Sea saltto taste

Method

6 steps · 30 minutes

Rub the cold butter into the almond flour, then work in the grated cheddar, egg, cayenne and salt.
It will look too crumbly and then suddenly come together. Resist adding liquid.
Roll it between two sheets of parchment to about 1/4 inch and chill it 15 minutes.
Cut into strips with a knife and lift them onto a lined sheet with a spatula. They will not survive being picked up by hand.
Bake at 325F for 15 minutes. Lower than you would for a wheat dough, because almond flour and cheese both catch fast.
Leave them on the sheet until completely cold. Warm they bend; cold they snap, which is the entire point of a cheese straw.

Macros are per serving and are estimates worked out from the ingredients. Keto Tracker AI is a food logging tool and does not give medical advice; talk to a doctor before changing your diet.