Oat Biscuits - Orange Flakes - Choco Flakes

Name: Oat Biscuits - Orange Flakes - Choco Flakes
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 55 min

July 29, 2015

Prep 10 min Total 55 min

Variations of oat biscuits © kvalifood.com

Recipe with video - Many names for a much-loved biscuit. This is a simple base recipe that gives a lot of biscuit for very little effort, and it can be varied for many purposes: a pastry sandwich with buttercream, a cookie with chocolate (and optionally orange zest), or oat baskets for ice cream, and so on.

Ingredients

Yields 18 pieces (9 sandwiches) (approx.)

75 g butter
100 g rolled oats
1 egg
125 g sugar
1 tbsp flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla sugar (optional)

grated zest of 1 orange (orange flakes only)

for coating

100 g chocolate (optional)

Directions

Melt the butter in a saucepan. Turn off the heat as soon as it has melted.

Add the sugar and egg to the pan and stir quickly into a rough cream.

Add the remaining ingredients and stir together quickly.

Make sure the baking powder is distributed well among the flour and oats.

Place 9 portions on a baking tray (3×3). Each should be 1 tbsp (15 ml), which is easiest to achieve with a heaped half of a regular tablespoon.

You don’t need to flatten them. The baking powder and the heat of the oven will do that for you. Just drop them in a lump.

Bake for about 10 minutes at 345°F (175°C) fan. Rotate the tray after 6–7 minutes if your oven doesn’t heat evenly — most ovens don’t.

They should be a good golden brown, but keep an eye out so they don’t get too dark. It can happen fast. When the edges are dark, they’re done.

Coating

Once the biscuits have cooled to room temperature, brush one side with chocolate melted in a bain-marie, in a saucepan, or tempered — depending on how particular you feel.

Leave the chocolate to set before moving on.

Buttercream

You can sandwich two biscuits together with 1 tbsp of buttercream, as in the photo, to make the classic Danish pastry shop treat.

See the linked recipe for a small batch of buttercream.

Notes

The type of rolled oats doesn’t matter much.

Even if you use just the base recipe without orange zest and chocolate, it is still a very good and easy biscuit. It takes 5 minutes to mix together — faster than going shopping.

The sugar doesn’t need to be fully dissolved into the egg and butter as you see in other recipes. The oven heat will melt it so you don’t end up with crunchy sugar between your teeth.

To use them as baskets, press them over a mould — a small glass or similar — while they are still warm.