Let’s be real for a second. If you are eating a cookie, the flour is the least of your worries.
The flour is just the vehicle for the real calorie party: the butter, the sugar, and the chocolate chips. That 1/2 cup of flour is a drop in the deep-fried ocean of a final dessert.
I remember once tracking the flour in my banana bread and feeling so smug. Then I looked at the 1/2 cup of brown sugar and the stick of butter and realized I was counting the wrong villain.
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Different Flours, Different Drama
Not all flours are created equal, and the calorie cops have a few more rules.
Almond flour is the trendy one, and it has about 280 calories per 1/2 cup. It’s higher in fat, which makes your muffins dense and delicious but also more calorie-dense.
Coconut flour is the wild card. It’s like a sponge; 1/2 cup of coconut flour has around 240 calories, but good luck using that much. That stuff soaks up liquid like a desert. (You’ll need five eggs just to make it stick together.)
Gluten-free blends hover around the same 228–250 mark, but they usually have added starches. They are the chameleons of the flour world—pretending to be white flour but costing the same calories.