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Digestive Biscuits

December 20, 2018

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As part of our cookie baking project my son and I decided to make digestive biscuits. This recipe is has a blend of wholemeal flour and plain flour but you can also use all wholemeal if you wish. Most recipes call for medium oatmeal which I don’t have so I used Flahavan’s Oatlets instead which I blitzed until they resembled a flour.

We also made chocolate covered digestives with some when they had cooled down. We combined 1/3 good quality dark chocolate with 2/3 good quality milk chocolate and melted it. We then spread it all over the cookies as shown below.

To cover 8 cookies we used 10g dark chocolate and 20g milk chocolate. Obviously you can use all milk or all dark chocolate or a different ratio. We then cooled them in the fridge until the chocolate had set.

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Digestive Biscuits

Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Servings 40 biscuits

Ingredients

  • 185 g wholemeal flour
  • 65 g plain flour
  • 250 g porridge oats blitzed
  • 250 g unsalted butter
  • 110 g soft light brown sugar
  • a generous pinch of salt
  • 1 tsp bread soda
  • 10-20 ml milk

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 160C/325F/gas mark 3
  • Add all the ingredients except the milk into the food processor and blitz until it resembles breadcrumbs
  • Add a little milk and mix by hand until it combines into a firm dough.
  • Roll out to about 4mm thickness. You can use some cling film on either side of the dough to help rolling if you like.
  • Cut out your biscuit shapes and put on a lightly floured or greased baking sheet
  • Bake in the oven for 10-12 minutes until a pale golden colour and just beginning to brown on the edges
  • Cool on a wire rack. You can make chocolate digestives once they are cooled if you like by covering the top of each biscuit with melted chocolate.

Filed Under: Baked Goods, Cookies, Vegetarian

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  1. rory

    February 27, 2019 at 18:07

    Much better than store bought digestives.I make these a lot and I eat them all the time

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