Vegan digestives! Small-batch! Easy recipe! So good.
Blame the Great British Baking Show for making me get off my couch (while Covid-positive no less!) and making these!
Did you see the S’mores challenge? OMG. I had to. Except I ended up just making the cookies and using a store-bough marsh and chocolate to assemble a quick “microwave s’more”.
Microwave s’mores are life, but these cookies really added something extra.
Fun Fact: Did you know that these cookies were invented by freaking doctors in like the 1800s as a digestion aid? They’re basically whole wheat shortbread cookies and supposed to help you digest because they also have baking soda?
I’m skeptical on the digestion part but I’ll eat anything shortbread so YUM.
Let me know if you give these a try!
Small-batch Digestive Cookies
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup flour (60 g) gf all purpose if desired
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- pinch of salt
- 2 tbsp (plant) butter softened (28 g) sub nut/seed butter or even oil might work
- 3 tbsp powdered sugar (21 g) increase to 1/4 cup for a sweeter cookie
- 2-4 tsp any milk (15 g) I used 3 tsp (1 tbsp) unsweetened almond milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F and line a cookie sheet with parchment.
- In a medium bowl whisk together flour, baking powder, salt.
- Using a fork (or pastry cutter) cut the softened butter into your flour mixture until a crumbly mix is formed.
- Stir in powder sugar and add enough milk 1 tsp at a time and stir to combine a stiff non-sticky dough.
- On a lightly floured surface knead this a couple of times to make it smooth.
- At this point you can shape the cookies by hand, first making a ball and then flattening on parchment. Alternatively, roll the dough out less than 1/4 inch thick and cut out cookies, and repeat until no dough remains.
- I got 10 cookies this way.
- Prick the cookies with a fork to give them that ICONIC look.
- Bake cookies 15-20 minutes until slightly browned (they continue to cook on the cookie sheet out of the oven so don't overcook them).
- Let your cookies cool and enjoy!