Preparing Mealworms for Baking
How to prepare a batch of crickets or meal worms prior to baking:
Gather your desired quantity of live insects, rinse them and pat them dry. Cleaning is very easy to do with mealworms, but more difficult with crickets. With crickets, place them all into a colander and cover quickly with a cheesecloth. Rinse then dry the crickets by shaking the colander until all water is drained. Place all crickets or mealworms in a plastic bag and freeze until they have died but not completely frozen. ( Usually takes 20 minutes or so ). Then, remove from the freezer and rinse again.
Now – You’re Ready To Bake The Mealworms, Crickets Or Both In Combination!
Chocolate Chip Mealworm Cookies
1/2 cup butter
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup white sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup oats
3/4 cup chocolate chips – semi sweet or milk chocolate
1/4 cup chopped pecans
1/4 cup mealworm flour
Cream butter, then mix in sugar, egg, vanilla flour, salt, baking soda, chocolate chips, oats, mealworm flour and any other dry ingredients. Teaspoon Drop refrigerated batter on a greased cookie sheet. Bake 10 minutes at 375 degrees farenheit.
COOL ON A COOKIE SHEET RACK AND WATCH THEM DISAPPEAR
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ENJOY!
