Hello lovelies, every year in the run-up to Christmas the same question comes up: what do you give the people you love? My answer has been the same for years – something homemade from the kitchen. These chocolate chips with speculoos biscuits are the gift I make most often with my kids: crunchy chocolate heaps with cornflakes and crumbled speculoos that are ready in no time. They are part of a little series of 3 edible gifts I created in cooperation with Migros Bio/Alnatura Switzerland – made with high-quality organic ingredients.
What I love about edible gifts: they are sustainable. Nothing stands around collecting dust – they get eaten and enjoyed. And this recipe is child's play in the best sense of the word: crumbling the biscuits, stirring everything through the melted chocolate and spooning little heaps onto baking paper are jobs my 2 kids fight over. Decorating the boxes and labels afterwards is at least half the fun.
For the coating I used a fine organic dark chocolate – the Alnatura fine bitter – but any good vegan dark chocolate works. The speculoos and cracker pieces make the chocolate chips extra crispy, and there is a little surprise effect in every bite: sometimes you catch the warm spices of the biscuit, sometimes the savory crunch of the cracker.
Packed in a pretty box, they are wonderful to take along to an Advent coffee or to give to your loved ones. Even in busy times, such small gifts made with love and care mean the most – and these disappear fastest of all.
If you want to fill a whole gift board, the chocolate chips have 2 companions from the same little series: the coffee syrup for coffee lovers and the savory pickled basil tofu with olives.
And if you are in full Christmas-baking mode anyway, try my vegan cookies – 1 dough and 3 kinds, the fine apple strudel pralines or the quick cookies with dates. You can find more delicious recipes with Migros Bio ingredients here.
This blog post was created in collaboration with Migros, but reflects my own opinion.
