Healthier Chocolate Teddy Biscuits
Recipe from @its_mandagram Kid-Approved Recipes 👩🏼🍳 · original post
Homemade chocolate teddy biscuits sweetened with maple syrup. Cutting the shapes is a great job for little hands.
Serves 10 30 minKid-friendly
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Ingredients
- plain flour — 2 cup; or spelt or buckwheat300 g
- cacao powder — ½ cup50 g
- bicarbonate of soda — ½ tsp2.3 g
- sea salt — a pinch0.4 g
- vanilla extract — 2 tsp10 ml
- coconut oil — ½ cup; melted125 ml
- milk — 4 tbsp; approximately80 ml
- maple syrup — ¼ cup65 ml
Method
- Preheat the oven to 160°C fan-forced.
- In a mixing bowl, combine the flour, cacao powder, bicarbonate of soda and salt.
- Mix in the vanilla, coconut oil, milk and maple syrup until well combined — add milk a little at a time until the dough feels like playdough. (Like it sweeter? Add more syrup and less milk.)
- Roll the dough into a ball, wrap it and refrigerate for 30–60 minutes (you can skip this if you're in a rush).
- Roll out to 2–3 mm thick and cut shapes with a cookie cutter, or roll into little balls and press flat.
Cooking for a different diet?
Swaps that keep this dish what it is. The prices on this page are for the recipe as written.
Vegan
- 80 ml Oat milk instead of milk
Gluten-free
- 300 g Gluten-free plain flour instead of plain flour
Gluten-free dough is more fragile, so chill it for the full 60 minutes and roll it between two sheets of baking paper; bake time stays at 10 minutes.
Dairy-free
- 80 ml Oat milk instead of milk
Swaps are suggestions — check labels if you are cooking for an allergy.
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- plain flour · 300 g
- cacao powder · 50 g
- bicarbonate of soda · 2.3 g
- sea salt · 0.4 g
- vanilla extract · 10 ml
- coconut oil · 125 ml
- milk · 80 ml
- maple syrup · 65 ml