ANZAC biscuits – Australia’s best recipe!

I love to bake! I think especially since I am rarely home and when I am all I want to do is make a mess in the kitchen and make something from scratch. So I thought today I would share one of three of my favourite Australian biscuit recipes (or Australian Cookie Recipes). Biscuit = Cookie not something you eat at breakfast with bacon and eggs!

ANZAC Biscuits
First a little history about these ‘bickies’. ANZAC biscuits have long been associated with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) established in World War I. These biscuits are made from ingredients that don’t spoil easily so we’re often shipped to soldiers who were fighting abroad during war (quite literally) by their love ones.

This recipe is very simple and will make you wonder why you ever bother using premade cookie dough! My grandma use to make us ANZAC biscuits from this recipe.

Ingredients
1 cup rolled oats
3/4 cup coconut
1 cup plain flour
1 cup of sugar (make this less if desired)
125g butter (4oz)
2 tbsp Golden Syrup (I found some Lyle’s Golden Syrup at Publix)
1/2 tsp of Bicarb of Soda (called Baking Soda) in the USA
1 tbsp of boiling hot water

Method
Preheat oven to 150C/300F and prepare trays. (makes at least 24)
Mix oats, flour, sugar and coconut
Melt syrup and butter
Mix soda and boiling water and then add to melted syrup and butter
Add to dry ingredients and stir well
Place 1 tablespoon worth of mixture on tray for each biscuit.
Cook for 20mins or until golden brown.

They taste great soft or hard so experiment and cook however you like em!