I wanted a biscuit that was not too sweet to go with all the icing on these Mummies – I’m determined that this year, my girls won’t feel left out at Halloween but will also manage not to eat as much processed, sugary rubbish. Well, that’s the plan so far anyway!
The ideal biscuit is the digestive – Oaty and not too much sugar. I made my own in less than 20 minutes but obviously used shop bought if you need to be even quicker.
HOMEMADE DIGESTIVES
| Serves | 12-15 |
| Prep time | 25 minutes |
| Cook time | 12 minutes |
| Total time | 37 minutes |
| Meal type | Appetizer, Dessert, Snack |
| Misc | Child Friendly, Serve Cold |
| Occasion | Halloween |
INGREDIENTS
- 100g Self Raising Wholemeal Flour (Yes, I’m still using it up!)
- 45g Porridge Oats
- 60g Soft Butter
- 1 tablespoon Soft Light Brown Sugar
- 3-4 tablespoons Milk
DIRECTIONS
| 1. | |
| Place the flour, sugar and oats into a bowl and rub in the butter with your fingertips until just combined. | |
| 2. | |
| Stir in the milk with a spatula or kitchen knife until it starts to come together in a ball of dough | |
| 3. | |
| Sprinkle flour on the work surface and roll out the dough to a 1/2 cm thickness and prick 3 times with a fork | |
| 4. | |
| Chill for 10 minutes while you heat the oven to 180C | |
| 5. | |
| Bake for 12 minutes until just starting to turn golden | |
| 6. | |
| Remove from the oven and leave to cool on a wire rack | |
| 7. | |
| Dip into melted white chocolate and add 2 M&M’s of the same colour to each biscuit | |
| 8. | |
| Pipe loosely with the remaining white chocolate in zig zags to look like a mummy | |
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Your decorated Halloween digestive biscuits look great Helen, it’s amazing how effective simple bakes can be.
Angela x
I love how versatile these are – there are so many toppings that go well with them x
The Halloween biscuits looks great! I bet these biscuits are perfect with a cup of coffee 🙂 all linked up, thank you for hosting xx
Ooh I’m a cup of tea woman with these! 😉
These biscuits are soooooooooo cute!!
We don’t celebrate Halloween, but I think these would be a great hit at any party 🙂
Thank you for hosting this party Helen 🙂
Thanks Winnie – I can’t say I’m the world’s biggest fan of Halloween but I seem to have got stuck in this year!
Love the digestive mummies, and my girls would think there were fabulous! thanks for hosting Helen
Thanks Lucy – They were rather popular with after school guests too! 🙂
Such a good idea for Halloween and the biscuits would be lovely at other times too, always good to have a standby biscuit recipe!
I love how quick they were – Perfect for the dreaded moment when the kids are searching the empty biscuit barrel!
Thanks for featuring my cake. It’s so nice being able to bake for friends and a jolly good excuse to eat cake as well!
You are very welcome – I always feel so virtuous when guests pop by and I happen to have something home baked to offer them! Doesn’t happen nearly often enough though x
I love the fact that these don’t contain too much sugar. They sound really versatile…
I think because they are easy to make, quick and not full of sugar and ingredients you don’t know makes me want to try the recipe
These halloween biscuits look great. I will have to try out this recipe with my kids during half term.
Oo I’d never think of making my own digestives, but these look delicious and I love the Halloween twist 🙂
What a fab idea! I’m off to Pin this to make these for Halloween my daughter would love to make these with me!
What a clever idea! And making your own digestive biscuits too. I may cheat and use shop bought digestives to try this out ?
What a lovely idea for a linky. There até some amazing looking bakes featured. And your mummy biscuits are awesome looking!
Such a simple yet effective idea. We’ve made some like this last year (using shop bought digestives…)
These look delicious. Definitely something that I can manage with my little girl despite my limited skills!
Have fun making them! I’m sure your little one will too!
Oh I absolutely love the look of these and they do t sound too difficult to make either. My five year old loves baking so I think we will give these a go this Halloween xx