I just bottled a chocolate stout that using cocoa nibs. I collected about a cup of used cocoa nibs from the fermenter and I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas on what I could do with them (besides snack on them). Any way I could some how combine them with the spent grain (that I put in the freezer at the end of the brew day) to make bread or cookies? Thanks!
My buddy has used this recipe before. You could probably figure out how to incorporate the cocoa nibs in there somehow. http://mylifeoncraft.com/?cat=33
Thanks for the suggestions guys! I made chocolate chip bar cookies last night to mixed results. I ground about 1 cup the spent grain in a blender yielding about 1/2 cup of not-quite-flour. I added this in place of 1/2 cup of the full amount of flour, and I also added about 1/3 cup of the cocoa nibs, and 1/3 cup of chocolate chips. The results weren't quite what I expected, and if I were to do it again I'd either leave the spent grain out or grind it longer. They are edible and after awhile kind of have a taste that one wants to get more of. One of my sons loves them. Hopefully there will be some left when I get home from work tonight. If not, I'll have to make more!
I know you've already used them, but my suggestion for the cocoa nibs would be german chocolate cake filling. Cocoa nibs are delicious with toasted pecans and toasted coconut in that gooey filling. I've found that drying the spent grain low and slow in the oven (thin layer on a cookie sheet) makes it easier to process into flour. If you haven't try that. The cookies sound good!
If the nibs still taste real chocolatey you could pack em in cheap vodka and make chocolate extract, which is great added to... anything.
