Making your own oatmeal flour at home is the easiest thing you can do to increase the nutrition of your baked goods in a snap! Oatmeal is naturally gluten free which makes it the perfect alternative to using white all-purpose flour in baking recipes. It also makes baked goods slightly chewy, moist, and a lot more filling. 

To make your own oat flour at home, all you need is a blender or a food processor. Pulse the oat for a few minutes, stop, stir, and pulse again until you reach a flour-like consistency. Depending on what kind of food processor you have, this can take about 60 seconds or less! One cup of rolled oats will yield 1 cup of oat flour. 

When it comes to using oatmeal flour as a replacement in your recipes, you may want to be careful. You can’t ALWAYS just substitute white all-purpose flour with oat flour. Oats contain zero gluten which means baked goods such as breads will not rise at all. 

You can though make gluten free oatmeal cookies that need no rising at all. You can also add a little nutrition to your cake or pastry recipes, substitute only 1/4 of the all-purpose flour with oat flour.

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