Anzac Biscuits (Cookies)
photo by Tisme
- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Yields:
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50 biscuits
- Serves:
- 50
ingredients
- 2 cups rolled oats, dry uncooked oats
- 1 3⁄4 cups desiccated coconut
- 2 cups plain flour
- 1 3⁄4 cups sugar
- 1⁄4 cup brown sugar (can use more white sugar here if you dont like brown sugar)
- 250 g butter (1 cup butter)
- 2 tablespoons golden syrup (8 teaspoon equivelant)
- 3 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda (bicarb soda)
- 3 tablespoons boiling water
directions
- Preheat oven to 160C (if using fan-forced oven) or 180°C Line biscuit trays with a quality baking paper or lightly grease with butter.
- Using a large mixing bowl -- combine the oats, coconut, flour and sugars.
- Using a small saucepan or microwave -- melt the butter and golden syrup together. Set aside.
- Using a cup -- mix the boiling water and bicarb soda together. Add this mixture to the melted butter. The mixture will foam up.
- Add the butter to the dry ingredients and combine thoroughly.
- Note -- if the mixture is too crumbly the biscuits will not hold together -- add a small amount of water. I've posted a photo of how I like my mixture to look. You should be able to get a tablespoon of the mixture and roll it together/push into shape of a cookie. Add too much water and your biscuits will flatten out totally during cooking.
- Using your hands. Roll into balls and flatten slightly. These cookies do spread whilst baking -- so I usually place 12 to a cookie sheet/baking tray.
- Place on baking trays and bake for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown. Cooking longer will give a crunchier biscuit or less time a softer biscuit. I like mine to be crisp. Total cooking time will depend on how many cookies/trays can fit in your oven at a time.
- Cool on trays for 5 to 10 minutes before moving to a rack to cool.
- If biscuits are too soft they can be returned to the oven and cooked further.
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Reviews
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I've seen Anzac recipes and finally decided to make a batch for ZWT8. Wish that I'd tried them sooner because they are delicious. I made a half recipe and subbed Splenda for the sugars and a heart healthy margarine for the butter. These puppies do spread but after reading Peggie's review I was ready for them and juat put 12 on a sheet. I got 24 beautiful and yummy biscuits :D. Made for ZWT8
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I've never made Anzac biscuits before, and I have to say that I've been missing out. These are just wonderful- sweet, buttery, crunchy on the edges, and have great texture from the oats and coconut. Mine spread quite a bit, I'll flatten the dough less next time. I used a cookie scoop instead of hand rolling, and got 21 cookies from a half recipe. These are definitely a keeper! <br/>Made for ZWT8.
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I've lived in Australia for 28 years and am finally getting around to making a batch of Anzac biscuits. Anzacs are wonderful, and I was on a search for a great recipe. This one is indeed great and also so easy-to-make. Believe Jubes when she says these biscuits spread. Mine were huge. I tried to squeeze 16 on a cookie sheet, but 12 would have been better. That said, mine were probably on the large side, as I only got 45 biscuits. And finally, I have a new-ish oven and I think it's running hot. My biscuits cooked to crisp within 12 minutes -- almost burnt the first tray.
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O.K................... nearly the same recipe as I use...... Measurements and times are a little different, was all EXCEPT... the one small difference..... brown sugar! Now I was making mine yesterday and nearly ran out of sugar, and wondered, what would be the difference if I used brown sugar....shell I tell you all? <br/>The diffence is ......... DAAAA DAHHHH!!!!! <br/>Brown sugar makes the biscuits a little chewier & softer than normal sugar, so this recipe is great for half the family!!! lol<br/>Two of us like firm and crisp the remaining two prefer theirs soft and chewy ....SO, this recipe was great to try, the ones that like their Anzacs soft & chewy (ssshhh but they prefer the supermarket ones, bacause they are softer than eat mine) LOVE, LOVED, LOVED these Jules.<br/>So now because of you Jules I have to make two batches each time....... sheesh!<br/>Once again Jules you have posted a great recipe....Thanks from 2 of the family!
Tweaks
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I've seen Anzac recipes and finally decided to make a batch for ZWT8. Wish that I'd tried them sooner because they are delicious. I made a half recipe and subbed Splenda for the sugars and a heart healthy margarine for the butter. These puppies do spread but after reading Peggie's review I was ready for them and juat put 12 on a sheet. I got 24 beautiful and yummy biscuits :D. Made for ZWT8
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Jubes
Australia
Aussie Mum - gluten-free