Gluten Free Weet-Bix Biscuits
These gluten free Weet-bix biscuits are thick and chewy with crunchy edges, and can be studded with chocolate chips, raisins, or whatever you like.
If you’ve made my gluten free Anzac biscuits, you may be familiar with the Weet-bix version I shared there, as a different option to use instead of cornflakes.
I’ve always thought they really deserved their own post though, because a) there are a few tweaks to the ingredient amounts that need to be made, and b) I wanted to add chocolate chips to them, and traditional Anzac biscuits aren’t supposed to have mix-ins.
Speaking of chocolate chips, you can pretty much mix in whatever you want. I make them sometimes with sultanas or raisins, but dried cranberries (any dried fruit really) or even nuts would be nice.
Think of them like a thick oaty kind of biscuit, but without the oats. Keen yet?
Scroll down to the recipe card for the full ingredients list and printable recipe, or keep reading for ingredient tips and process photos.
Ingredients
Gluten Free Flour – I used my favourite homemade gluten free flour blend, but you can use a premade blend if you prefer. Different flours may affect the texture of the finished biscuits.
Gluten Free Weet-Bix – Gluten free Weet-bix aren’t actually made with wheat, they’re made with sorghum. They also come in a coconut and cinnamon flavour which will work in this recipe too.
Desiccated Coconut – If you’re not a coconut fan, these should work with ground almonds too.
Brown Sugar – Keeps the biscuits chewy.
Baking Soda – Gives the biscuits lift and does that fun fizzy thing when you add it to the melted butter and golden syrup.
Butter – Either salted or unsalted butter is fine.
Golden Syrup – I prefer to bake with the Chelsea golden syrup in the tin, as it’s thicker and has more flavour. But the squeeze-bottle version will also work.
Chocolate Chips – You can use any kind of chocolate chips that you like.
Other mix-ins – If you don’t want to use chocolate chips, you can leave them out, or replace them with dried fruit (raisins, sultanas, cranberries, chopped dates etc.) or chopped nuts.
How to Make Gluten Free Weet-Bix Biscuits
Start by combining the gluten free flour, coconut and brown sugar in a large bowl, and then crumble in the Weet-Bix.
Melt the butter with the golden syrup and water, then whisk in the baking soda. The mixture will froth up.
Add the wet ingredient to the dry and mix. It’ll be a bit crumbly, but when you squeeze some in your hand it should hold together. Stir in the chocolate chips (or whatever else you want to mix in).
Scoop or roll the dough into balls. I use a cookie scoop, but you can use a tablespoon to portion the dough and then squeeze it into a ball. Flatten the dough slightly, then bake.
Bake the biscuits to your desired done-ness. There are notes in the recipe card for baking them soft, with crunchy edges and soft middles, or all over crunchy.
These biscuits can look a bit scraggly when they’re baked (it actually makes for very delicious crackly/crunchy bits around the edge), but if you want them to look rounder, there’s a trick for that. As soon as the biscuits come out of the oven, place a round cookie cutter that’s slightly larger than the biscuits over the top and swirl them back into shape while they’re still hot.
More Gluten Free Biscuit Recipes…
Gluten Free Peanut Brownies
Gluten Free Afghan Biscuits
Gluten Free Gingernut Biscuits
And if you’ve opened a box of GF Weetbix, you might also want to make some gluten free muesli bars or a delicious gluten free chocolate Weet-Bix slice.
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Gluten Free Weet-Bix Biscuits
Ingredients
- 250 g gluten free flour, see notes
- 180 g brown sugar
- 80 g desiccated coconut
- 80 g gluten free Weet-Bix, (5 Weet-Bix)
- 125 g butter
- 100 g golden syrup
- 1 Tablespoon water
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ – ¾ cup chocolate chips, (80g-120g) or other mix-ins (see notes)
Instructions
- Heat the oven to 160°C and line 2 – 3 baking trays with baking paper.
- Sift the gluten-free flour into a large bowl. Add the brown sugar and desiccated coconut. Stir to combine, breaking up any lumps of brown sugar with the back of a spoon.
- Crush the Weet-Bix. I just use my hands to do this over the bowl, but if you prefer you can pop them into a snaplock bag and crush them with a rolling pin.
- Mix the Weet-bix into the rest of the dry ingredients.
- Put the butter, golden syrup and water into a small saucepan and heat over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until the butter is melted and the mixture starts to bubble slightly. Remove the pan from the heat and whisk in the baking soda until dissolved – the mixture will bubble and foam up.
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir until well combined. The dough will be quite crumbly, but you should be able to roll a ball of it in your hand. If it's too crumbly to do that, add a little extra melted butter or water, 1 teaspoon at a time.
- Make sure the dough isn't too warm (if it is, just leave it for a few minutes so the chocolate won't melt) then stir in the chocolate chips (or other mix-ins).
- Squeeze and roll a tablespoon of the dough at a time into balls, and place at least 2" apart on the baking trays. If you want smaller cookies, use a heaped teaspoonful of dough instead. Flatten the balls slightly with your hand.
- Bake for 10-14 minutes. 10 minutes should give you soft biscuits, 12 minutes should give you crunchy-edged biscuits with chewy centres, and 13-14 minutes should give you crunchy biscuits. Exact times will vary by oven and smaller biscuits will take less time to bake.
- Remove from the oven and leave to cool and firm up slightly on the trays before transferring to a wire rack to finish cooling.
- Store the biscuits in an airtight container for 1-2 weeks.
easy to make, came out well and very tasty!
Is it possible to substitute the golden syrup with maple syrup?
Hi Jessica, I haven’t tested these with anything other than golden syrup I’m afraid, so I can’t tell you if it will work or not. Maple syrup is quite a bit runnier than golden syrup, so the biscuits would likely spread a bit more. Honey might be closer in consistency but I haven’t tested that either. Sorry I can’t help more with that, but if you give it a try, I’d love to know how it goes 💜
These biscuits were delicious even though I didn’t get them quite right (user error). I’ll definitely be trying them again (and again and again).