The Best Spent Grain Chocolate Pudding Cookies Recipe [2022]

When you switch from extract to all grain brewing, you will likely find yourself wondering what to do with all of that spent grain leftover from your brew day. Sure, you could throw it away, but it seems like such a waste! There are a lot of great things you can do with spent grain, including composting it or using it for animal feed for farm animals, but baking with might just be the best way to use some of it up!

Some of our favorite recipes for baking with spent grain are our spent grain pizza dough, these amazing spent grain beer crackers, spent grain granola, or even share the love with your furry friend by making spent grain dog treats!), but if you’re looking for something sweet, try these delicious spent grain cookies! There are many great spent grain cookie recipes out there (and many delicious spent grain recipes in general) but this easy recipe is perfect for baking with spent grain for the first time.

Check out the video and recipe below to see how to make your own! We even have a downloadable and printable recipe card for you!

Spent Grain Pudding Cookies Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 box Instant Pudding Mix
• 1 box Instant Pudding Mix (we recommend chocolate!)
• 1 stick Unsalted Butter
• 3/4 cup Spent Grain (wet grains, but squeezed to remove as much liquid as possible)
• 1 cup All-Purpose Flour (you can substitute whole wheat flour if you want to make them even healthier)
• 3/4 cup Sugar (we recommend using Brown Sugar)
• 1 Egg (we recommend getting your eggs from a local farmer who raises chickens ethically)
• 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
• 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
• 1/4 tsp Salt

Process:

1. Soften butter and begin to mix in stand mixer at low speed.
2. Slowly add brown sugar, vanilla extract, egg, spent grain, baking soda, salt, pudding mix, and flour, leaving the mixer on.
3. Mix until smooth and all dry ingredients and wet ingredients have fully mixed into the wet mixture.
4. Scoop about 1.5 Tbsp of dough per cookie onto parchment paper or lightly greased cookie sheet.
5. Chill in refrigerator for 1 hour.
6. Bake 9-10 minutes at 350°F.
7. Cool on cooling rack for 10 minutes.
8. Enjoy! These delicious cookies pair well with a Breakfast Brown Ale or a chocolate porter!
9. Make sure to store any that don’t get eaten immediately in a tight container and eat them within 2-3 days.

While you CAN dry your grain and use a blender or food processor to turn it into spent grain flour, the drying process is very time consuming and doesn’t yield the results I had hoped it would. For that reason, we focus on recipes that allow you to bake with your spent grain still wet right from the brewing process. If you don’t homebrew and therefore don’t have leftover grain from brewing, try checking with commercial brewers in the area. They may have leftover beer grains that they would be happy to trade for some cookies!

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