Oatcakes. Mix oats, whole wheat flour, sugar, salt, and baking soda together in a bowl. Rub in butter with your fingers until mixture is chunky. Pour in enough water to form a thick dough.
Cool then transfer to a food processor; process until finely ground.
In a food processor pulse oats until finely chopped.
Add butter to oats with all remaining ingredients except milk.
You can have Oatcakes using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Oatcakes
- Prepare 85 g of coconut margarine.
- It's 110 g of plain flour.
- It's 1 tsp of baking powder.
- It's of cold water.
- It's 80 g of chopped walnuts.
- You need 20 g of maple syrup.
- You need 125 g of oats.
- You need 1 of vegan egg replacement (1 tbsp flax seeds + 3 tbsp water).
Nova Scotia-style oatcakes are popular throughout the province, but especially beloved in Cape Breton. They aren't necessarily presented as anything special and are often sold just stacked on plastic-wrapped trays in grocery store bakeries. They have a magical flavor that is sweet, but not too sweet, and a bit salty. Scottish oatcakes are flat biscuits primarily made from oats, salt and water, and sometimes dripping or lard; Welsh oatcakes are more like savoury pancakes, while Yorkshire oatcakes have a bubbly.
Oatcakes instructions
- Preheat oven to 190℃. Grease a baking tray or line with greaseproof paper..
- In a large bowl, rub the margarine into the flour until the mixture looks like fine breadcrumbs. Add nuts, maple syrup, baking powder and oats and combine..
- Add cold water little by little to bind the dough-try not to make it too sticky..
- Place 10 spoonfuls of the dough onto the baking sheets, spaced well apart. Flatten each one slightly with the back of a spoon..
- Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, or until firm..
- When they are cool down dip each cookie in melted chocolate..
Oatcakes are to Scotland what a baguette is to the French. The flat cakes made mainly from oats have for centuries been considered the Scottish national bread. The oatcakes are similar to a flatbread or biscuit. Oatcakes are a traditional Scottish cracker made with oatmeal. They're great with cheese, pate or on theirs own.
