Recipes Using Rice Malt Syrup

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These days I am doing my utmost to limit the amount of refined sugar I have in the kids and my own diet. I have always had a very sweet tooth, and although I don’t crave sugar like I used to, occasionally I still do like a treat, and I have found a satisfying  way to indulge with this Low Sugar FODMAP friendly Vegan Rice Malt Toffee Recipe.

I find if I predominately stick to a vegan low FODMAP diet, (due to suffering from fructose intolerance) and I avoid all those organic treats, sweetened with processed with erythritol, agave and xylitol, and any other sweetener ending in “ol”, then i can avoid sending my delicate digestive system into a tailspin.

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Here is Australia I like to use Pure Harvest’s Rice Malt Syrup, as I know this company checks its rice products arsenic levels.

You can get as creative as you like with the additions you can add to this vegan toffee recipe.  I personally added a mix of crushed almonds, pepitas, sunflower, hemp and chia seeds.

You will need a  small stainless steel saucepan and a glass bowl full of ice water to test if the toffee is ready.

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Pour the rice malt syrup into your saucepan and gently bring to the boil, reduce heat so the mixture is on a low gentle boil, not burning.  Stir occasionally. After 5 minutes, turn off the heat and  drop a teaspoonful of the mixture into the freezing cold bowl of water.  Then with your fingers, play with it to see how quickly it sets.  If it is still very sticky and squishy once cool, you need to put the toffee on the stove for another 2 minutes.

Once you have your rice malt toffee mixture at the right consistency, leave it to cool slightly in the pot while you prepare your baking sheets.

After 5 minutes, pour the toffee out in a thin layer over the silicon baking mats, or baking paper.  Then sprinkle your nuts and seeds evenly over the mixture. You don’t want the toffee to be boiling hot when you add in Chia and Hemp Seeds, as you don’t want to alter the Omega 3’s in these seeds.

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You can allow it to harden before breaking, or do what i did and when still slightly warm, I rolled pieces up into bite sized toffee nuggets.While I am refined sugar, gluten and dairy free, everyone else in the family eats them in moderation. Where I can I am trying to reduce their refined sugar intake. Sometimes it goes unnoticed, other times they notice but find it all okay and other times they notice and don’t enjoy it.

This rice malt syrup chocolate cake recipe falls into the category of they noticed but found it okay. The older two said it wasn’t as nice as my original one bowl chocolate cake recipe, but they are also the ones that consume a lot more sugar laden products with their own money, so it makes sense that they noticed more of a difference. I do find making changes to the teenagers diet much harder than the younger kids.

I will however keep trying and we talk quite a bit about the choices we can make. The eldest turns 17 this week and he will have a full strength ice cream cake with filling of his choosing and I am okay with that. In a perfect world I would make this raw chocolate cheesecake, but he wouldn’t eat it! I have chosen to role model healthy eating as best I can, have discussions on nutrition where appropriate but not make food a point of contention between us.

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Back to the cake! It is one of my favourite type of recipes – a one bowl, dump and mix type of thing. All ingredients go into the bowl and you just mix.

Super basic menu plan this week filled with the kids’ favourites that are easy for me to cook. Mr I is traveling most of this week and we have quite a bit on after school this week too. In these types of weeks, I aim to make the menu plan as easy as possible for myself!

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