Think Tiny Teddies but Gluten Free, Refined Sugar Free and round instead of Tiny Teddy Shape. These are a fantastic substitute for Tiny Teddies, are easy to make, less expensive and better for your kids. This recipe is modelled from a thermomix Teeny Teddies recipe from The Road To Loving My Thermo Mixer.
These gold coin cookies are great lunchbox snacks. Simply pop 3-4 in the lunchbox to provide a yummy sweet tasting cookie as a treat. They are an awesome recipe to involve your kids in – get them to mix the flours, and cut the cookie shapes.
Ingredients
- 65g butter
- 140g rice malt syrup
- 2 tspns vanilla extract
- 85g brown rice flour
- 85g buckwheat flour
- 70g gluten free self raising flour
- 1 tspn baking powder
- 1/2 tspn bicarb powder
Directions
- Put butter, rice malt syrup and vanilla in a saucepan and melt over medium heat – stirring continuously until butter has melted and combined with rice malt syrup. Remove from heat.
- Place everything else in a large mixing bowl, and mix with a wooden spoon
- Pour butter mixture into the mixing bowl with the flour mixture. Stir the butter mixture through to form a sticky dough ball. You need mixed in really well.
- Place the bowl in the fridge for 15 minutes (no more than 30 minutes)
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees and line 2 baking trays with paper
- Take dough out and break into 2 big balls. Place one ball on a piece of baking paper, and roll out until about 2mm thick. Use a small round cutter (or any shape you have) and press into the dough. Place your coins (or shape) onto a baking trays. Then do the same for the other ball.
- Bake in oven for 6-8 minutes until golden. Cool on the tray for 2 mins, then remove to cool on a wire rack.
Tips
- If your family is not far along the way to reducing your taste for sugar, then reduce the rice malt syrup by half and add in half of raw honey (look for raw honey because the standard supermarket shelf honey has been heavily heat processed and it’s lost most of its natural goodness).
- You can also make these using wholemeal or spelt flour (steer clear of white flour products because the processing has stripped it of all it’s nutrients. If your family are use to only white flour, mix half white flour with half wholemeal or spelt – this is a good start to transitioning out white flour).
Freezing / Storing Instructions
This will make about 100 coins for your lunchbox snacks. Store half in a glass jar (will last about 2 weeks), put the rest in an airtight container in the freezer for use in another week.
Another 2 ways of using recipe
- Add 1-2 tspns of cacao powder at step 2.
- Add some chia seeds and a bit of ginger spice to make a ginger snap
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