Sunday 27 April 2014

Keto Oreos!

I set myself this challenge a few days back and today am ready to share what I came up with.
There's a fair bit of work involved, but I'm really pleased with  the results and would take one of these over a real Oreo any day. Seriously.
Also, I use the Cadbury's Bournville Cocoa Powder as it seems to have about 1/2 the carb content of the others I've seen so far (just 10g per 100g).

   

Ingredients - Biscuit

  • 3/4 Cup Ground Almonds 
  • 2 Tbsp Cocoa Butter
  • 1.5 Tbsp Truvia
  • 4 Tbsp Cocoa Powder
  • 1 Tsp Vanilla Extract
  • 1 Egg White

 

Ingredients - Filling


  • 150ml Coconut Cream 
  • 1 Tbsp Truvia
  • 1 Tsp Vanilla Extract
  • 1/2 Tsp Xanthan Gum

 

Method

Preheat the oven to 160 degrees C (320 F).

First, the filling: Mix all filling ingredients apart from the Xanthan Gum, using an electric hand mixer on the slowest setting, then begin adding in the Xanthan Gum until a toothpaste-like consistency is achieved.
Place the result in the fridge.

Next, evenly mix all dry biscuit ingredients in a mixing bowl. Completely melt the Cocoa Butter (I used a ramekin and a microwave for around a minute), and add it to the mixture along with the Vanilla and Egg White. Press the mixture together with your hands, or a large spoon, until you end up with something which moves a bit like fudge, and looks like Oreo biscuit dough.
Spoon out the dough onto a sheet of baking paper, cover with another sheet of baking paper, and roll out to about 0.5 cm.

Now the hard part, take your time here...
Use a cookie cutter to cut out the dough out into circles, carefully moving them onto a third sheet of baking paper on top of an oven-able flat thing, like a metal baking sheet.
It's difficult, because the dough really doesn't want to hold together. It sometimes flakes, sticks a bit, and generally refuses to cooperate.

Once you've got all the circles you can, recombine the remnants into one lump, repeat the rolling out process and start again; I managed to get about 12 circles in total.
Now carefully place the baking sheet with paper and circles on into the oven, and cook for about 8 minutes.

Once the time's up, pull the circles out of the oven, carefully remove the baking sheet from underneath the paper to help them cool faster and WAIT. They will be squidgy, they will want to break. Have faith and patience and leave them alone for about 10 minutes.
After 10 minutes, they will be slightly more amenable to handling, though still quite brittle. Use a spatula to, again carefully, move them onto something like a plate and stick them in the fridge for a good 30 minutes at least.

Almost done now, I promise ;) . They should be reasonably solid and biscuit-like. (If they aren't, leave them longer in the fridge). Begin sandwiching blobs of filling between the biscuits until you have around 6 'Oreos'. Back in the fridge, and half an hour later they'll be perfect.

Phew, got there in the end, eh?

I ended up with a surplus of filling, but it's pretty versatile stuff; you don't need a huge imagination to figure out where else you can put it - Berries, cheesecake, some kind of muffin. You could also just eat it straight out of the bowl with a spoon; I would recommend this approach :) .

Again suggestions, insults, comments welcome below.

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