Coarsely ground crickets in home food processor

Milling your Natural crickets is a great way to incorporate more protein into your food and/or to disguise the look of a cricket for those eaters who don't want to see a whole cricket in their food.

​In a home food processor (i.e. Magic Bullet), you can grind our crickets into a powder in a matter of seconds.  If you want your crickets to add texture to your baking, only mill a few seconds to get a coarsely ground cricket.  If you don't want or need the texture, mill longer to get a finer powder.

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Milling your crickets

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Looking for more recipes for baking?  Check out our eCookbook.  Our eCookbook includes recipes for muffins, breads, energy bars, crumbles, burgers, granola, omelets, smoothies, and more....

Baking with crickets is relatively easy; try your favorite recipes but replace 10%-30% of the flour with cricket powder.  This works particularly well for brownies, cookies, and breads.  Below are some of our favorite recipes submitted by customers.  If you have a great recipe, please share it with us!

Submitted by:  Karen from Eugene, OR

Ingredients:

• ​​3 cups of oats
  
• 1 ounce of ground Natural Craft Crickets
  
• 1 cup of rice crispies
  
• 1/2 cup of flour
  
• 1/4 cup of chia seeds
  
• 1 tsp of baking soda
  
• 1 tsp of vanilla
  
• 2/3 cups of butter
  
• 1/2 cup of honey
  
• 1/3 cup of brown sugar
  
• 1/2 cup of chocolate chips
  
• 1/2 cup of peanut butter chips
  

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 350F
   
2. Mix all dry ingredients together
   
3. Melt butter, add honey and vanilla, mix well
   
4. Combine dry ingredients with melted butter/honey mix; it will be a little dry
   
5. Press into a greased 13X9 pan
   
6. Bake for 18-22 minutes; press back down after baking
   
7. Let cool and cut
   
8. Start hopping and enjoy!
   

Nutrition:  Makes 20 servings.  Per serving: 5g of protein, 3g of fiber, 200 calories.

Cricket recipes for baking

Submitted by:  Patty from Pengilly, MN

Ingredients:

• ​​1 1/2 cups of whole wheat flour
  
• 3/4 cup of ground Natural Craft Crickets (requires about 1 1/2 cups of whole crickets)
  
  • Grind 2 ounces in your coffee grinder or food processor
    
• 1 tsp of Baking Soda
  
• 1/2 tsp of Sea Salt
  
• 1 tsp of Cinnamon
  
• 7 oz of Greek yogurt (try coconut flavored yogurt for an extra twist)
  
• 6 oz of Orange Juice
  
• 1 Tbs of Honey
  
• 2 tsp of vanilla extract
  
• 1 banana - smashed
  
• 1 egg
  
• 2 Tbs of Peanut Butter
  
• 2 tsp of vinegar mixed with 2 tsp of baking soda
  
• 10 oz of 60% cacao bittersweet chocolate chips
  
• 1 cup of chopped walnuts (or your nut of choice)
  

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 375F
   
2. Stir wheat flour and ground crickets and baking soda and sea salt.  Set aside.
   
3. Beat coconut yogurt, honey, vanilla, egg until creamy. 
   
4. Mix  vinegar and soda together and add to yogurt mix.   Add peanut butter and banana.
   
5. Gradually blend dry mixture into creamy mix.
   
6. Stir in dark chocolate chips and nuts. If mix is too tight, add more orange juice. 
   
7. Drop by Tablespoon onto cookie sheet. 
   
8. Bake 12-14 minutes.
   
9. Start hopping and enjoy!
   
   ​Call Patty at 218-966-2023 for suggestions to further improve this recipe

Depending how finely you grind your crickets, the volume will reduce by roughly half from the whole state.  In other words, to make a cup of cricket flour, you need two cups of crickets.