ANZAC BISCUITS

For fail safe biccies gives these a go. Made from pantry staples you can add extra stuff for texture. These ones iv'e added cranberries and pepitos but iv'e also made them with nuts and sultanas and poppy seeds.

This recipe if from Bill Grangers cookbook:"Bills Sydney Food"but there are millions of similar recipes online.

Ingredients:

cranberry jewelled ANZACS

1 cup plain flour
1 cup rolled oats
one cup desiccated coconut
2/3 cup brown sugar: (tightly packed)
125gm melted butter
1 tablespoon golden syrup
1/2 teaspoon bicarb soda
2 tablespoons boiling water

extra stuff for texture:

pepitoes-handful

cranberries-handful

What to do:

In large bowl add all dry ingredients and mix, leaving a little well in middle.
melt butter in small saucepan with golden syrup
boil water and mix with bicab soda in small bowl and add to butter and golden syrup when this mixture is melted. It will foam up. Add butter mixture to dry ingredients and combine. Make balls of mixture (about tablespoon full) and squish down before baking in preheated oven 160 degrees C/ 315degrees F for 15-20 minutes. Makes about 18 biscuits depending on how big you roll em.  Let them sit for 5 mins on tray after removing from oven before cooling on wire racks. Enjoy with cuppa...ahhh..and the kids can have em too i spose.

Rocky Road kid style

Super easy, super delicious.

2 blocks white cooking chocolate (or you could go mix it up and go 1 x white and 1 x milk choc)
1 bag jelly snakes
1 bag marshmallows (or the mini ones in the cooking aisle)
1 bag jelly lollies
desiccated or shredded coconut

Line baking tin with greaseproof paper.
Chop up lollies and marshmallows and spread all over paper.
Sprinkle coconut over them.
Melt chocolate in microwave, about 1 min at a time, stirring in between.  Doesn't take long.
Pour melted chocolate over lolly mix.
Sprinkle more coconut over top.
Put in fridge until solid.
Chop up.
Eat.