I used to absolutely love chocolate flavoured Teddy Graham biscuits when I was little. Since then I have not stopped loving this style of biscuit but wanted to find a more simple and healthy version that could easily be made at home. Here I am sharing our cacao biscuits recipe, made with buckwheat flour and just 5 other ingredients. It is quick, easy and very child-friendly - my 2 year old daughter loved mixing the batter for these.
I also often measure out the ingredients and she adds them to the mixing bowl. Or when we use measuring cups, it's even easier for her to fill one up and help with the measuring out ingredients part of the recipe. I think she really loved being so involved in them and of course especially eating them once they were baked and out of the oven!
I have made these tiny (the batter makes a LOT of them), and also as slightly larger (but still small) cookies. I also have the option of adding a chocolate 'frosting' (almond butter, maple syrup, cacao powder) and sandwiching 2 small biscuits together with the frosting in the middle. So delicious and also very presentable, as the dough is very easy for rolling and cutting cookie shapes out of.
The biscuit might be quite chocolatey and bitter if your taste buds prefer sweeter things. If you prefer, you may want to add more maple syrup to the dough for a slightly sweeter biscuit (as per the recipe which has a range) - I find that when I add frosting, it doesn't taste as intense! However I do love both the biscuit on its own and also with the frosting added.
Ingredients:
Biscuits:
1 1/2 cups buckwheat flour
¼–½ cup pure maple syrup (adjust for sweetness)
1/3 cup softened butter or coconut oil
1/4 cup cacao powder
Pinch of salt
1 tsp vanilla extract
Chocolate frosting (optional):
½ cup smooth almond butter
3–4 tbsp pure maple syrup
3 tbsp cacao or cocoa powder
2–3 tbsp milk of choice
1 tsp vanilla extract
Pinch of salt (really improves the chocolate flavour)
Method:
Preheat fan oven to 180°C
Mix dry ingredients (buckwheat + cacao + salt).
Add in the butter / coconut oil until crumbly.
Add maple syrup and vanilla; mix until dough forms.
Roll out and press into shapes with a cookie cutter (my favourite is the smallest heart in this cookie cutter set - slightly bigger than the one in the photo below which were TINY!)
Place biscuits on a lined baking tray and bake until set and lightly crisp (roughly 12–15 min at 180 °C)
Optional extra: mix all of the frosting ingredients into a bowl and spread a little onto each biscuit, then pres and sandwich together with another biscuit. Smooth the frosting edges so they stay fairly neatly between the sandwiched biscuits
Enjoy as a snack on the go, with a cup of tea, or serve to guests who are visiting 🙂
