Fat Free Tea Biscuit Recipe

You’ll love my Healthy Digestive Biscuits Recipe. Delicious, low calorie oatmeal cookies and refined sugar free. Perfect with a cup of tea and so much better than shop bought!

My favourite sweet treat is a nice cup of tea and a good digestive biscuit, perfect for dunking. A healthier biscuit if you make your own as they are a low sugar biscuit. Often eaten with cheese instead of a cracker.

We love homemade biscuits here at the Kitchen Shed, no palm oil or added extras. Only 68 Kcals. Naturally vegan and refined sugar free.

Healthy Low Calorie Biscuits

My Healthy Digestive Biscuits recipe includes easy to make vegan or sugar free versions – options are given in the recipe card. I use maple syrup in the basic recipe to sweeten the digestives.

Maple syrup adds a lovely malty flavour which pairs so well with the oatmeal and has the added bonus of being refined sugar free.

So if you fancy a digestive biscuit that is much better for you and tastes so much better than shop bought, have a go at baking a batch of these.

Easy Gluten Free Biscuits Recipe (4 Ingredients!)

In 1892, Alexander Grant from McVities in Edinburgh, devised and produced the first and original ‘Digestive’ biscuit, the secret recipe of which is still used today. Sometimes referred to as sweetmeal biscuits, it was the Victorians who coined the term “Digestives” because they believed the bicarbonate of soda in them must aid digestion.

Apparently one in nine packets of biscuits now sold in the UK is a packet of Digestives, making them the nation’s favourite biscuit regardless of their questionable aid to digestion.

I like to use White spelt flour for its naturally nutty flavour but you can substitute with plain flour. Wholemeal spelt flour made the biscuits a little too dry so I substituted white spelt flour.

Schar Gluten Free Rich Tea Biscuits 3x42g

Fine oatmeal – if you can’t get hold of oatmeal or you don’t want to buy a pack just to make this recipe you can whizz up some porridge oats.

Fat – butter or sunflower margarine can be used. They both make a dunkable crispy digestive but if you want to make them VEGAN use sunflower margarine.

Baking powder and bicarbonate of soda (baking soda) contribute to a distinctive biscuit taste, imparting a particular flavour with a sublte hint of bitterness.

Quick & Easy Gluten Free Biscuits [buttermilk Or Regular]

Maple syrup – I prefer to make our Digestives with maple syrup as I love the way its malty flavour pairs well with the oatmeal.

Maple syrup contains zinc and manganate and whilst it has a lower glycaemic index than sugar it still needs to be used in moderation – I used 4 tablespoons in the recipe to make about 30 biscuits.

Milk – for a SUGAR FREE digestive biscuit omit the maple syrup and use 3 to 4 tablespoons of milk or dairy free milk and flavour with ¼ teaspoon of salt.

Moist Fruit Tea Loaf (fat Free) Recipe

Chocolate is purely optional but every now and again I’ll make a batch with golden syrup and cover with chocolate. CHOCOLATE Digestive Biscuits are a special treat for my husband who has a very sweet tooth !

Use golden syrup instead of maple syrup if you want a sweeter biscuit made with sugar. If you prefer a totally sugar free biscuit, omit the maple syrup and use 3 to 4 tablespoons of milk or non dairy milk and flavour with ¼ teaspoon of salt.

Calories: 68 kcal | Carbohydrates: 6 g | Protein: 1 g | Fat: 4 g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 4 g | Sodium: 73 mg | Potassium: 10 mg | Fiber: 1 g | Sugar: 1 g | Vitamin A: 179 IU | Vitamin C: 1 mg | Calcium: 8 mg | Iron: 1 mg

Gluten Free Caramel Cookies

These sound wonderful!!!! just wondering if I can use a no added sugar maple syrup and I can't find a sunflower butter anywhere. is it possible to use tahini or a any other seed butter????

Thanks for stopping by Vanessa. In answer to your questions, a dairy free spread made with oil can be substituted for sunflower spread. A sugar free maple syrup can be used in the recipe. Hope this helps, Sarah.

I have 2 questions to ask; the first one is whether or not it would be possible to use oil for the fat? The second question is what the bicarbonate of soda and baking powder is added. Especially because, being biscuits we do not want them to rise!? Never understand why sometimes both of these are added to recipes and bic. soda often has a bitter aftertaste. Can I leave both of these out???

Low Fat Biscuits (ww) Recipe

Hi Mo, I haven't made the digestives with oil but I can't see why it wouldn't work. I've made pastry with oil, it's best to use less oil than butter, I would suggest trying 75 ml and adding more if the dough doesn't come together. I only use a small amount of baking powder and bicarbonate of soda in the recipe but you could make the biscuits without. Digestives are traditionally made with bicarb for the flavour, so the flavour wouldn't be quite the same. As the biscuits don't have much acid in them, the bicarb doesn't give much of a rise. The small amount of baking powder in the recipe still delivers a crunchy biscuit. Hope this helps, please let me know how you get on.

Hello Sarah! Just finished baking the digestives-they were perfect plain-but tried the melted dark chocolate for a special treat.. No more buying cookies for me! I followed the recipe as is and had no issues. Thank you!

Recipe looks great. I assume the oatmeal you mention is porridge oats. If using porridge is it best to blitz it finer in a processor first.

Gluten Free Biscuits Recipe

Hi Victor, sorry for the late reply but I've been on a bit of a break from my blog. You can buy oatmeal or like you say you can give some porridge oats a fine blitz.I owe the inspiration for these delicious fat-free vegan biscuits to my Facebook followers. Last Sunday, I asked them what recipes they’d like to see “on this beautiful Sunday morning, ” and one of the many great responses that came back was “biscuits and gravy.” It sounded good to me, too!

Frankly, I’ve been feeling a little uninspired lately, like I’ve done it all over these 11+ years of ging, so sometimes I just need someone to tell me what to cook. Now that my daughter’s off at college, I don’t feel as enthused about cooking elaborate meals, and my husband and I usually eat very simply.

D is not very picky about food, though he will often suggest dishes for me to make, but maybe even he has been feeling uninspired. So it was helpful to get feedback from readers to hear what they are craving. I copied down every single suggestion and hope to work my way through them, and if you would like to request a recipe, please leave a comment. But for now, it’s biscuits and gravy.

Breakfast Biscuits (savoury American Scones)

I already have two biscuit recipes on this , a sweet pumpkin-raisin biscuit and a “regular” pumpkin biscuit. But the regular biscuit is part of my Pot Pie recipe, where not too many people find it, and I had been considering pulling it out and making it a stand-alone recipe.

Since there are people who don’t really like pumpkin (amazing, right?), I’ve adapted the recipe to use potato rather than pumpkin as a fat-replacer. Cooking up a medium-sized Yukon gold potato isn’t quite as easy as opening a can of pumpkin, but with a microwave or an Instant Pot, it takes only a few extra minutes. And potato adds a little more lightness without the pumpkin flavor or color.

I served these with my 911 Vegan Gravy with smoked salt added for the bacony flavor I remember from my mom’s biscuits and gravy. It’s an incredibly simple recipe (and gluten-free!), but if you’re in the mood for mushroom gravy, do not miss my Vegan Mushroom Gravy.

Olive Oil Biscuits (made With Buckwheat)

I could make a meal out of just biscuits and gravy, but if you’d like something to go along with them, consider Tempeh “Bacon, ” Beany Breakfast Sausage, or Simple Scrambled Tofu with Kale. And remember–breakfast for dinner is true comfort food!

These delicious vegan biscuits get their moisture from mashed potato, not oil. Note: If you'd like to use all whole wheat flour, you may have to increase the liquid a little.

How much extra milk you need will depend on how moist your potato is. If you are boiling or steaming the potato, you probably won't need much extra milk.Learn how to make the most delicious and soft Vegan Biscuits recipe oil-free! These require just 6 ingredients are so easy to make and have no butter and no oil in them, yet they are so fluffy and perfectly flavored. With tangy yogurt and a touch of maple syrup, they have amazing flavor! The perfect vegan breakfast to spread jam or vegan butter on or vegan sausages!

Gluten Free Tea Biscuits With Dairy Free And Raisin Options

These vegan biscuits are so delicious and soft, it doesn’t even matter that they are healthy and oil-free! Because they are delicious. The flavor is so amazing thanks to using plant-based dairy-free yogurt in them!