I thought I would bake up a special treat for the kids after school and came up with this recipe. Â I buy coconut sugar and cacao nibs through health food stores, but you should be able to purchase them online too. Â Coconut sugar is low GI and has a really lovely caramel flavour, similar to brown sugar, but not so sickly sweet. Â Cacao nibs are a great substitute for choc chips and have so much goodness in them. Â Best of all, my kids don’t notice the difference.
Cacao Nib Biscuits
Author:
Jacinta Gleeson Munn
Recipe type: Biscuits/Cookies
Cuisine: Sweet Treat
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Thermomix instructions - If you don't own a Thermomix, just follow the instructions using your preferred method of mixing.
Ingredients
- 100gm butter or non-dairy equivalent
- 100gm coconut sugar
- 1 egg, beaten
- 240gm cups spelt flour
- 45g cacao nibs
Instructions
- Pre heat oven to 160ºC
- Place the butterfly insert in the Thermomix
- Add butter and coconut sugar to the Thermomix and beat on speed 3 until butter and sugar are combined, scraping down the sides at least once.
- Next gradually add the egg and mix on speed 3 until light and fluffy.
- Add the flour and mix on speed 3 until just combined.
- Pour in cacao nibs and mix on reverse and slow speed until nibs are evenly distributed.
- Dollop teaspoon full amounts of the biscuit mixture onto oven trays lined with grease proof paper.
- Bake @160ºC for approximately 10 minutes or until golden brown.
- Let stand a couple of minutes before transferring biscuits onto a cake rack to cool.
- Makes approximately 30 biscuits.
