Anzac Biscuits (cookies)

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

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 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

Recipe

• 1 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.
• 2 using a large mixing bowl -- combine the oats, coconut, flour and sugars.
• 3 using a small saucepan or microwave -- melt the butter and golden syrup together. set aside.
• 4 using a cup -- mix the boiling water and bicarb soda together. add this mixture to the melted butter. the mixture will foam up.
• 5 add the butter to the dry ingredients and combine thoroughly.
• 6 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.
• 7 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.
• 8 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.
• 9 cool on trays for 5 to 10 minutes before moving to a rack to cool.
• 10 if biscuits are too soft they can be returned to the oven and cooked further.