Gluten-free oat biscuits
These rustic oat biscuits are so hearty and filling. The oats give them a natural sweetness, and the addition of a tiny bit of sugar makes them absolutely perfect. Because the biscuits are so filling, you won’t eat your entire bake in one sitting. Which is nice, if your kids also look at you with disappointment when they find out you ate all the biscuits the night before.
Where is all the flour gone
Since I’ve been an avid baker now for over 10 years, I tend to always have a couple of kilos of the stuff. But when this past March all this trouble began, I became more and more desperate for flour. Everywhere there was talk about people were baking, and the internet got flooded with bake alongs. But I hadn’t foreseen the panicked shopping of the average Irish household. And so, I was left without flour, I asked the manager when the next shipment would come in and was informed it might well take a month. So, I started rationing my flour, no more biscuits and cakes to bake, the only thing that I would still bake was our bread.
Grinding your own oat flour
Luckily, I had a lightbulb moment one day when I was seriously craving a nice biscuit. I could just use oats to make a biscuit, one of my favourite biscuits have always been oat biscuits. Although usually you make them with wheat flour and rolled oats mixed through them. So why not make some oat flour myself and use that instead of regular flour. I had done it before, and it was easy enough, the only challenge is to create small portions at a time. I have a stick blender, so I use that, but I have also done it in a regular blender, and both work fine. But the one challenge is to only grind/blend up about 50 grams at a time. Because if you don’t do that, it won’t all be the same size.
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Ingredients
- 200 gr oat flour
- 70 gr butter softened
- 50 gr sugar granulated
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- pinch salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200 C or 400 F, grease a baking tray or use a baking sheet.
- Thoroughly mix the oat flour with the sugar, baking powder and salt. Then rub in the butter until it resembles course sand.
- Add a bit of water to form the mixture into a stiff dough, knead lightly until it’s pliable.
- Flour your work surface and roll the dough out so that it is about 3 mm thin.
- Cut out your biscuits with a cutter and place on your baking sheet/tray.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 10 to 15 minutes. After they are done baking let them cool on a wire rack.
- Place into an airtight container when fully cooled, they should keep for 3 to 4 days.
