Low Fat Choc Chip Biscuits (Cookies) |
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Prep Time: 25 Minutes Cook Time: 40 Minutes |
Ready In: 65 Minutes Servings: 6 |
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With a few clever changes, you can have your biscuit & eat it too. This recipe comes from an issue of Australian Table magazine. Each biscuit has only 3g of fat. Ingredients:
150 g chestnut puree |
60 ml skim condensed milk |
2 1/2 teaspoons vanilla essence |
150 g caster sugar |
1 egg, separated |
250 g self-rising flour (plus extra for dusting) |
110 g dark chocolate, chopped |
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 160c & line 2 baking trays with baking paper.
2. Place chestnut puree, condensed milk & vanilla in a bowl & beat with an electric mixer until combined.
3. Add sugar & beat for a few seconds, until incorporated.
4. Add egg yolk & beat again.
5. Fold in the flour (mixture should be very thick).
6. In a clean bowl whisk egg white until firm peaks form.
7. Fold egg white, then chocolate, into biscuit mixture.
8. Dust hands with extra flour & roll teaspoon sized measures of biscuit mix into balls, 3-4cm in diameter, & place on prepared trays & flatten slightly with a fork coated in flour.
9. Bake for 35-40 minutes.
10. Cool on a wire rack.
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