Flour-free hazelnut, chocolate and cinnamon biscuits

March 24, 2015 (Last Updated: January 11, 2019)
Flour-free hazelnut, chocolate and cinnamon biscuits recipe

Flour-free hazelnut, chocolate and cinnamon biscuits

Serves: 20
Cooking Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

  • 130g ground hazelnuts
  • 150g icing sugar
  • 2,5ml (½ tsp) ground cinnamon
  • 50ml cocoa powder, plus extra to dust
  • 4 large egg whites
  • 60ml (¼ cup) castor sugar
  • 100g dark chocolate chips

Instructions

1

Preheat the oven to 160°C and line a baking tray with baking paper.

2

Mix the hazelnuts, icing sugar, cinnamon and cocoa powder in a bowl.

3

Whisk the egg whites and castor sugar together until stiff peaks form. Fold in the hazelnut mixture and the chocolate chips.

4

Spoon tablespoonfuls of the mixture onto the baking tray, leaving a 5cm gap around each spoonful to allow for spreading. Bake for 10 – 12 minutes. Dust with cocoa powder.

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