DELICIOUS SUGAR-FREE OREOS

Who doesn’t love a good chocolate bickie? No one thats right! However since finding out that Sarah is lactose intolerant we have had to put on our creative hats when it comes the chocolate treats. Here is a quick and easy homemade oreo that taste as good as it looks with no nasty sugar.

Ingredients
Biscuits
1 cup of self raising flour
1/3 cup of raw cacao powder
75g cold butter (a lactose that sarah can tolerate, feel free to substitute this for a dairy-free alternative if you can’t handle regular butter)
1/4 cup Almond Milk
1 tablespoon rice malt syrup

Filling
125g Tofutti cream cheese (tofu cream cheese is so good but feel free to replace with normal cream cheese)
25g soft butter
1 tablespoon rice malt syrup
1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence

Method
Firstly preheat your oven to 180 degrees and line a baking tray with baking paper. Normally I’d forget to pre-heat the oven and just do it as the biscuits go in the oven, but they don’t turnout the same. A hot oven will make them nice and crunchy on the outside but still soft in the middle.

Now get your mixmaster or your bicep ready to mix the flour, cacao and butter together. Sift the flour and cacao into a mixing bowl then dice the cold butter as small as you can. I find that this helps make the process alot quicker. Add the diced cold butter to the dry ingredients and then mix until the mixture looks like lovely chocolate bread crumbs. Finally add the almond milk and rice malt syrup and combine until it’s a dough consistency.

Place the dough onto bench floured as much as you like and knead for a minute or two. Using a rolling pin roll the dough out until it is around 4mm thick. You can use a biscuit cutter to cut out the rounds or just a trusty glass as I do. Once cut out, place the biscuits onto the lined baking trays making sure there is an even number (sounds simple but I’ve ended up with an odd amount plenty of times). Place in the preheated oven and cook for 8-10 minutes.

While the biscuits are cooking it’s time to make the filling. Add all the ingredients to a mixing bowl and whisk until well combined, wiping down the sides a few times to help combine evenly. By now the biscuits should be done so take them out of the oven and place onto a cooling tray and allow to cool.

To assemble the biscuits place about a tablespoon of the filling onto the biscuits remembering to be generous and too use it all up because, honestly its always the best part! Also remember to leave enough empty biscuits for tops. To assemble all you have to do is place on the tops an press down slightly an allow the delicious filling to slightly ooze out the sides. Now sit back an enjoy with your favourite tea or drink of your desire.

What are your favourite sugar-free treats?

I’d love to see if you give these a go over on Twitter or Instagram tag @morethanadored or @isaac_noonan and use the hashtag #bakingwithmta so Sarah and I can see!