Anzac Biscuits

Name: Anzac Biscuits
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 40 min
Ingredients: ½ cup Edmonds standard flour; ⅓ cup Chelsea White Sugar; ⅔ cup finely desiccated coconut; ¾ cup rolled oats; 50g butter; 1 Tbsp Chelsea golden syrup; ½ tsp Edmonds baking soda; 2 Tbsp boiling water

Golden, chewy, and full of oaty flavour, Anzac biscuits are a true Kiwi classic. Made with simple ingredients and no eggs, they keep well in the tin and are perfect for lunchboxes or a homemade gift. This easy recipe is a go-to for baking with kids or whipping up a nostalgic treat to share with family.

Contrary to legend, Anzac biscuits weren't sent to our troops serving overseas in WW1. However they were commonly sold at church fetes and galas to raise funds for the war effort. They didn't get their name until peacetime, with the first Anzac recipe appearing in about 1919.

25 mins

Prep Time

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Ingredients

½ cup Edmonds standard grade flour
⅓ cup Chelsea white sugar
⅔ cup finely desiccated coconut
¾ cup rolled oats
50g butter (or Olivani Spread)
1 Tbsp Chelsea golden syrup
½ tsp Edmonds baking soda
2 Tbsp boiling water

Method

Preheat the oven to 180˚C. Line a baking tray with baking paper.
Mix together flour, sugar, coconut and rolled oats.
Melt butter and golden syrup. Dissolve baking soda in the boiling water and add to butter and golden syrup. Stir butter mixture into the dry ingredients.
Place level tablespoonfuls of mixture onto cold greased trays and flatten with a fork. These don't spread as they bake so you can place them close together.
Bake for about 15 minutes or until golden. Leave on the tray for 5 minutes then place on a wire rack to cool.

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Summer

I used 70g of butter and didn’t have any golden syrup so used a mix of honey and molasses, still tasted great. As other comments said only 10mins is good, if left any longer they would be burnt. They were also pretty crumbly. Other than that super simple to make. Almost 0 mess. And delicious!

Disclaimer: my oven was set on 160 fan bake (the bake of our oven is broken).

Hope this helped ☺️

Lisa

This recipie does not work! If you read the comments you need to adjust the ammounts to be able to actually make a biscuit. If you follow this recipie you will have a disaster like I did. Be warned!

Isaac

Delicious cookies!

Shell

Always check the comments first! Thanks to all of the lovely ladies who have written the adjustments in thier feedback, the biscuits I made were delicious, soft and chewy! I used 60g butter, 2T golden syrup. The mix made 12x 35g balls. I flattened slightly on the tray and cooked them for 12 minutes.

Ella

They were good

Simona

My 7 yr old son made these by himself following this recipe, they turned out great and the kitchen wasn't even a mess, no mixture left in the bowl or sticking to other utensils, the easiest clean up ever for the most delicious home made biscuits!

Chris

Interesting fact: My Edmonds books from the 80's has 100g of butter, 1C of rolled oats and 1C of coconut, rest of ingredients are the same.

Elvis

not enough biscuits

Sally

Please tell me how to make them spread and crispy and crunchy not hard and rock like
Thanks heaps

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