Traditional Anzac Biscuits

Ingredients

  • 1 cup of rolled oats
  • 125 grams Butter
  • ¼ cup of Golden Syrup (or Treacle)
  • 1 cup of coconut
  • 1 tablespoon of bicarb soda
  • 1 cup of plain flour
  • 1/2 cup of sugar

Method

This is one of the easiest recipes to make, but the most important step is the cooking time. Some people like their Anzac biscuits soft and gooey, while others prefer them hard and crunchy. The beauty of Anzac biscuits is that they taste great at any stage of cooking and can be customised to the taste buds of your household. You could even take half of the batch out at the soft stage and leave the rest in longer!

  • 1. Melt the butter in a bowl over a sink or saucepan of hot water
  • 2. Mix in the golden syrup
  • 3. Dissolve the bicarb in a couple of tablespoons of hot water
  • 4. Add all wet ingredients to dry ingredients and mix with a wooden spoon until the mixture is all together
  • 5. Spoon the mixture onto a baking tray which has either been greased or covered in greaseproof paper. The mixture will stand up fairly high, but once it starts cooking will flatten out so make sure there is heaps of room between the spoonfuls.
  • 6. Bake at 180 degrees celcius for about 15 minutes for soft biscuits or 20 minutes for crunchy biscuits
  • 7. Allow to cool, preferably on a cake rack to stop them going soggy or sweaty

Wheat Free Variation

Simply replace the 1 cup of plain flour with a cup of gluten free flour such as Tapioca flour, Potato flour or Buckwheat flour. I like to use half Tapioca or Potato flour with half Buckwheat as it seems to be the closest mix.

Gluten Free Variation

As the biscuit uses oats, it is possible to convert this into a gluten free recipe by using certified gluten free oats. They aren't always easy to find, but consider that Oats contain the smallest traces of gluten of all of the grains, and in some studies no gluten has been detected in regular oats. If you have a mild intolerance to gluten, the 'wheat free' variation above may be suitable.

Did you know?

In Australia and England, cookies are called 'biscuits' and they are a sweet treat. In America, 'biscuits' are a type of bread served with breakfast or dinner and they are savoury.




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