Tuesday is bake day

Source: The Australian

Master R is obsessed with cooking. He stands up on his little stool next to the bench and insists on mixing and of course eating. An idea I stole from another wonderful blog is to have a cookie of the week. The mama blogger lets one of her 3 children choose a cookie and they bake it together. With no classes on a Tuesday it has become bake day. I'll try to post what we've baked and share the recipe.

These are an old favorite passed down from my grandma. ANZAC biscuits* were developed to send to the Australian and New Zealand Army Core while serving in Gallipoli.

*Biscuits are not savory like in the US but are just the British word for cookies.


ANZAC biscuits
1 cup plain flour
1 cup dessicated coconut
1 cup oats
1 cup dark sugar
125g butter
2 tbs golden syrup (you can find this in some stores around Battery Park)
1 tsp bicarb soda

Preheat oven to 180C/350?F. Combine all dry ingredients. Melt butter and golden syrup and add to the dry ingredients along with bicarb soda dissolved in 2 tablespoons of boiling water. Mix well and using a teaspoon form into balls - careful they really expand. Bake for about 10 minutes until golden.