Oats biscuit is a simple biscuit recipe made using oats, all purpose flour and some desiccated coconut. It is prepared in less than an hour. This easy-to-make recipe is a great option for all the vegetarians as they are made without using eggs in it. Oats biscuits are the perfect companions of our tea. These are better than your regular maida only biscuits.
We can store it in airtight containers and it stays even for two months. We can prepare these biscuits for special occasions such as birthday party, get together or as a tea time snack. Serve it to your guests and they will love it for sure. These are light and stomach filling which makes them a perfect munching snack. We can fee the taste of oats in this biscuit. These are not melt in mouth type of cookies. These are crispy and taste really great.
Difference between Cookies and Biscuits
Though we use the term cookie and biscuit as synonym, they differ.
- Cookies are generally chewy and Biscuits are more firm.
- Cookies contain more sugar than biscuits.
- Usually the cookies will melt in mouth but the biscuits donot.
Here I am making this recipe for A to Z recipe Challenge where the bloggers choose an ingredient with an alphabet and make a recipe out of this. This month it is letter ‘O’ and I choose Oats as an ingredient.
Role of main ingredients
Butter
It acts as a leavening agent. It gives a nice flavour to the biscuit and adds moisture.
Sugar
Sugar can be used in granulated or powdered form. In some, biscuits both the types are used. They give sweetness to the biscuits. Along with butter they give tenderness to the biscuits.
Baking powder
Baking powder is used to increase the volume and lighten the texture of baked goods. It works by releasing carbon dioxide gas into the dough through an acid-base reaction and thus leavening the mixture.
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Oats Biscuit
Equipment
- Hand blender
- OTG
Ingredients
- 135 g Maida / All purpose flour
- 95 g Oats
- 125 g Butter
- 35 g Desiccated coconut
- 20 g Milk powder 1 tbsp
- 4 g Vanilla powder 2 tsp
- 3 g Baking powder 1 tsp
- 4 g Salt 1 tsp
- 35 ml Milk
- 100 g Powdered Sugar
- 35 g Sugar
Instructions
Dry ingredients
- First weigh all the ingredients and keep it ready.
- In a bowl, add maida or all purpose flour, 3/4th quantity of oats, desiccated coconut, milk powder, vanilla powder, baking powder and salt.
- Mix it with a spatula and keep it aside.
Creaming
- Keep the butter in room temperature 30 minutes before you start baking.
- Take another bowl and add powdered sugar, granulated or normal sugar and butter.
- First mix the three ingredients with a spatula.
- Then with the help of hand blender, beat the sugar and butter until is turns pale, creamy and light in texture.
Mix Dry & Wet ingredients
- Into the creamy butter sugar mixture, add the dry ingredients in parts.
- Mix it with spatula first. Its enough to bring the ingredients together.
- Donot knead the dough like we make the chappathi dough.
- Then use your hands to smoothen the dough by bringing all the ingredients together. Donot give pressure.
- Biscuit dough is ready.
Making biscuits
- On the working surface, sprinkle some maida.
- Place the biscuit dough on it and roll it out like a chappathi with the help of rolling pin.
- Let the thickness of rolled out dough be 0.5 cm thick.
- Now sprinkle the remaining oats on the top of the rolled out dough.
- Gently press it with the rolling pin so that they will stick to the dough.
- Now cut the biscuits into your desired shape with the cookie cutter.
Baking the Biscuits
- Line the baking tray with the butter paper.
- Arrange the shaped biscuits on the tray leaving some space between each biscuit.
- Pre heat the oven at 160 degree celsius for 3 minutes.
- First, place the tray in upper rack and bake at 160 degree celsius for 10 minutes.
- Then keep it in lower rack and bake for five minutes.
- The biscuits will be done.
- Remove the tray from oven, allow it to cool.
- Immediately after removing from the oven, the biscuits will be soft. So remove fro the tray only after cooling it down.
- After the biscuits cool down, store it in an air-tight container.
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Notes
- While making biscuits, add baking powder or baking soda while adding flour.
Beat the fat and sugar before adding dry ingredients.
Cut the biscuits into uniform shape and size.
Decoration on the biscuits should be done immediately after shaping or rolling out the dough.
Always cool the biscuits after removing it from the oven. If you remove immediately from the tray, they will be soft and will stick to the tray.
INGREDIENTS
INSTRUCTIONS
Dry ingredients
- First weigh all the ingredients and keep it ready.
- In a bowl, add maida or all purpose flour, 3/4th quantity of oats, desiccated coconut, milk powder, vanilla powder, baking powder and salt.
- Mix it with a spatula and keep it aside.
Creaming
- Keep the butter in room temperature 30 minutes before you start baking.
- Take another bowl and add powdered sugar, granulated or normal sugar and butter.
- First mix the three ingredients with a spatula.
- Then with the help of hand blender, beat the sugar and butter until is turns pale, creamy and light in texture.
Mix Dry & Wet ingredients
- Into the creamy butter sugar mixture, add the dry ingredients in parts.
- Mix it with spatula first. Its enough to bring the ingredients together.
- Donot knead the dough like we make the chappathi dough.
- Then use your hands to smoothen the dough by bringing all the ingredients together. Donot give pressure.
- Biscuit dough is ready.
Making biscuits
- On the working surface, sprinkle some maida.
- Place the biscuit dough on it and roll it out like a chappathi with the help of rolling pin.
- Let the thickness of rolled out dough be 0.5 cm thick.
- Now sprinkle the remaining oats on the top of the rolled out dough.
- Gently press it with the rolling pin so that they will stick to the dough.
- Now cut the biscuits into your desired shape with the cookie cutter.
Baking the Biscuits
- Line the baking tray with the butter paper.
- Arrange the shaped biscuits on the tray leaving some space between each biscuit.
- Pre heat the oven at 160 degree celsius for 3 minutes.
- First, place the tray in upper rack and bake at 160 degree celsius for 10 minutes.
- Then keep it in lower rack and bake for five minutes.
- The biscuits will be done.
- Remove the tray from oven, allow it to cool.
- Immediately after removing from the oven, the biscuits will be soft. So remove fro the tray only after cooling it down.
- After the biscuits cool down, store it in an air-tight container.
Notes
- While making biscuits, add baking powder or baking soda while adding flour.
- Beat the fat and sugar before adding dry ingredients.
- Cut the biscuits into uniform shape and size.
- Decoration on the biscuits should be done immediately after shaping or rolling out the dough.
- Always cool the biscuits after removing it from the oven. If you remove immediately from the tray, they will be soft and will stick to the tray.
This recipe is a part of A to Z challenge, a challenge initiated by bloggers Jolly Makkar and Vidya Narayan on Facebook Group, wherein a group of bloggers come together and we choose key ingredients alphabetically to cook and post a dish every month. This month alphabet is ‘O’, so my contribution for this month is Oats biscuit.
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Very nice and healthy biscuits made with oats. Can I replace maida with whole wheat flour ?
Yes Shobaji, of course we can use wheat flour. Just adjust the quantity of wheat flour or butter… I am planning to try this in future. Thank you
I always presumed that the difference between a cookie and biscuit was not in the texture but the difference in what the English and US calls them. Learnt something new today. As for the oats biscuit, they simply look very inviting. Would love to have a couple and dunk them in milk.
Same here di… I too was thinking it’s just UK & US English. But it is in the baking class I attended, I learnt this difference.
Such lovely, crispy cookies! The oatmeal must have given them a beautiful texture, I’m sure. The addition of dessicated coconut is interesting too. I’d love to lay my hands on that platter, for sure! 🙂
Thank you so much Priya…
I love crispy biscuits. And these oats biscuits looks so healthy crispy and tasty. Loved these cute looking small biscuits. Perfect to satisfy sweet cravings.
Thank you so much Sujatha di 🙂
such cute little biscuits, Niranjana… truly a kids delight.. and loving the detailed write up too…
Thank you so much Kalyani
The Oats biscuits are a perfect accompaniment to tea or coffee. I personally don’t enjoy soft centre cookies or moist cookies and love the kind you have baked. For me biscuits or cookies should be crisp – the kind we can dunk in a tea cup and enjoy.
Thanks Vidya…
These biscuits are made in such a cute shape. This would be lovely to make with the girls…
Thanks Rafeeda.
The first thing that caught my eye was the super cute shape of your biscuit, Niranjana. They looked so so adorable. Then I read the recipe and realised the biscuit was so easy to make. Would be perfect with my tumbler of Kaapi on a rainy day.
These little cute oats biscuits will be perfect to enjoy with my cuppa. The oats biscuits are another healthy option to include oats in kids menu. Beautifully baked biscuits.
Thank you so much paarul.
I love biscuits. And these oats biscuits looks really crispy, healthy and tasty. I love crispy cookies and biscuits. Those shapes of biscuits looks really cute, I can munch it many with my tea. Perfectly baked.
Thank you so much Jolly!!
These biscuits looks so crispy and crunchy. love those cute little shapes and this will get over in no time in our home. Perfect to enjoy during Tea time
Thank you Narmadha!!
Wow, what a lovely recipe. It is so simple yet so healthy. Just love its shape, so so cute. Will give it a try, it will be great snack for my little toddler. Can we use any kind of oats in this.
Thank you so much Anshu.. Yes you can try with any type of oats. And yo make it more healthy for your toddler, you can replace maida with wheat flour. Just make minute changes in the ratio of ingredients. It should work.
Thank you so much
I have tried making biscuits with oats and whole wheat flour. I love your addition of desiccated coconut. It would have been so flavorful !
Thank you Poonam…
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Good to know that the difference in cookies and biscuits is not just the name. I assumed it what the British and Americans call them. Loved the oats cookies especially the fact that the oats are not hidden.
Thank you so much. I came to know the difference in my baking class. Till then I was also thinking it’s just British and American English.
Loved the cute shape of biscuits and its very easy to make it, my kids would love it.
Thank you
Lovely recipe, the shape looks very cute ! love the addition of dessciated coconut, must add a great flavor to the biscuits! A great snack and lovely edible gift!
Thank you Priya…
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