Tuesday, March 20, 2012

My New Jam!!!

So I have been pretty bad about posting for the past two weeks…meaning I haven’t posted at all! That’s not to say I haven’t been baking, because I made chocolate chip cookies and tahini and lime cookies (not to be called hummus cookies Emily) two weekends ago. This past weekend I was traveling so I had no real time to bake, so it was only fitting I bake during the week!

I have become a bit of a psycho when it comes to ingredients—see making my own granola bars—so I wanted to make my own vegan biscuits since I have been craving biscuits lately. I am also trying to make my baking a little healthier—again see making my own granola bars—as it pertains to things I will be eating every day. Since I joined Weight Watchers, I have become a boring breakfast eater. I tend to have a rotation of bagels and vegan cream cheese and oatmeal and I have been so sick of it, so vegan biscuits seemed like the perfect break.

I found a vegan biscuit recipe online and modified it to make it a little healthier by substituting whole wheat flour for all purpose flour. This recipe makes about 12 biscuits—by the way does it bug anyone else when they don’t include the number of servings a recipe makes!! I put it in this nutrition calculator for recipes and entered it into WW and each biscuit is only three points…yummy and not so terrible for the diet! The biscuits are light and I don’t even notice the whole wheat flour, which I normally do in baked goods.

Now let’s get to the really good stuff. I love Nutella! But it has dairy in it, and I have been searching for a suitable substitute. Further proving I am not a good vegan, I don’t like almond butter because the texture just isn’t right to me. I have been reading on a lot of baking blogs (I have too much time on my hands) about a spread called Biscoff. It’s a spread of the Biscoff cookies they sell in Europe. I have been keeping an eye out for it and I finally bought it tonight at the grocery store, because I figured it would be the perfect thing to jazz up my whole wheat healthy breakfast biscuits.

This is my new jam people! It is so delicious! At first I thought I would have too many biscuits, but I will be eating these babies for breakfast and dessert every day from now until they are gone! Seriously try it out and come jam with me, you will not regret it!

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