Paleo – check, vegan – check, gluten-free – check, delicious – check! I was starting to lose faith in healthy baking … until I unearthed this paleo cricket recipe! Crickets flour and ginger go really well together, inspiring many cricket ginger snaps, but this is one of my favorites …
A big thanks to All Things Bugs for donating the cricket powder used to develop this recipe.
Ingredients
dry ingredients
- 2/3 cups of almond flour
- 1/3 cup cricket flour
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/8 tsp sea salt
- 2 tsp ground ginger
- 2 tbsp coconut sugar
- 1/2 tsp allspice
- parchment paper for cookie sheet
wet ingredients
- 1/2 cup almond butter
- 2 tbs molasses
- 1/3 cup raw maple syrup
topping
- 2 tbsp coconut sugar
Servings: cookies
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Instructions
- In a mixing bowl, combine all dry cookie dough ingredients
- Add wet ingredients to dry, and stir well to combine
- Refrigerate dough for 30 minutes
- Preheat oven to 350-degrees F
- Rub cookie sheet with vegetable oil or use parchment paper to keep cookies from sticking.
- Roll cookies into 1 inch balls, then dip them into palm sugar before placing on cookiesheet.
- Bake 15 minutes,then allow cookies to cool before serving
Recipe Notes
This paleo cricket recipe makes about 25 cookies.
Ran out of almond flour so I tried using 1/3 cup of coconut flour and 1/3 barley flour. I also substituted cashew butter for almond butter. The consistency was similar, but these baked much faster, they were burning on the bottom in 14 min with a metal cookie sheet. With this substitution try cutting the baking time to 11-12 min.
Hey! Nice site. Found you through Bisharat’s article. Do bugs qualify as vegan? Not that I obsess about strict adherence to any diet dogma. Intuitively, eating bugs seems much more ethical than eating cows or pigs. And of course the production of plant foods means the death of many bugs during harvest, so why what’s the difference in eating them directly?
Bisharat said “this girl makes even the most diehard vegans look like a bunch of wussies”. Ha, nice! Do you have any experience with veganism yourself? I’ve been vegan for the last couple years, and am always open to refining my nutrition, and I admire your emphasis on ethics, sustainability, and health.
Feel free to shoot me an email to continue the discussion (or reply here, either way).
This has certainly piqued my curiosity! Thanks.
PS – I’ll be in Yosemite a part of the summer, maybe I’ll catch you out there!
Hey Coury,
Thanks for the BugWall interest. Eating bugs seems to attract more interest of vegans and vegetarians than from meat eaters. This makes sense; Veggos need more ethical protein options and have already in the habit of thinking about what they eat and why. If you want to dig into the Entotarian debate – we can continue the discussion here.
I’ve been a pescetarian in the past and eat a reduced meat diet now. Dont know if its really fair to be called more “core” than die hard vegans. I like to eat bugs because they’re sustainable and nutritious, but especially because cooking with edible insects is an exciting whole new culinary challenge.
I’ll send BugWall updates via Twitter especially, but will also be sending a special daily newsletter during the wall with a more detailed trip report. Let me know when you get to the Valley, we should share some beers and bugs!
do i need to refrigerate these to store them
Um, crickets are animals, so not vegan. No problem for me, but all the sugar is. Maybe I’ll try some substitutions, like date puree.