Honey Oat Breakfast Biscuits

While vacationing in Tanzania, we indulged in dense, oat-ey, slightly sweet biscuits served with tea and cream each morning and afternoon. I remember both the biscuits and the lions with equal fondness.

Just look at those happy kitties - bellies full of breakfast biscuits...or breakfast gazelles.

So after several years, I decided to try to recreate the tea biscuits. I had several different flours on hand, and tried to use the different mixtures to get a full bodied biscuit with a pleasing flavor, and filling texture.


1 cup graham flour
1/2 cup almond flour
1/2 cup steel cut oats
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 egg
2 tablespoons melted butter
1/4 cup honey
1/4 cup vanilla powder (powdered sugar with vanilla flavoring. Can substitute with 1/4 cup powdered sugar and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla flavoring)

Whisk together the dry ingredients. Stir in the liquid ingredients until just combined. Turn out dough onto a well-floured surface and with a rolling pin, roll out dough to a 1/2 inch thickness. Using cookie cutter, punch out shapes in the dough and place on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Back at 325 degrees for 15 minutes, cool on a wire rack.
Top oat biscuits with nutella, jam, peanut butter, or fruit.