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Anzac Biscuits

Name: Anzac Biscuits
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Yield: 24 biscuits
Cuisine: Australia
Ingredients: 150 g (1 1/2 cups) rolled oats; 120 g (1 cup) all-purpose flour; 100 g (1 cup) desiccated coconut; 150 g (3/4 cup) sugar; 125 g (1/2 cup) butter; 2 tbsp golden syrup (or honey); 1/2 tsp baking soda; 2 tbsp boiling water

Chewy golden oat-and-coconut cookies

🛂 Passport Stamp No.022 · Postmarked in Australia

👦 Baked by Axl

15m

Prep

15m

Bake

24 biscuits

Makes

Easy

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🏛 A little history

Anzac biscuits are one of Australia's most-loved bakes, and they carry a real story. During the First World War, families baked them to send to soldiers of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps — the ANZACs. There are no eggs in the dough, so the biscuits stayed good on the long sea voyage across the world.

The magic is golden syrup and rolled oats, held together without any egg. To this day they're baked every year around Anzac Day, and the smell of oats and coconut toasting in the oven is pure Aussie comfort — a treat with a hundred years of history in every bite.

👩‍🍳 Let's bake!

Heat the oven to 160°C (325°F) and line two baking sheets with parchment.
In a big bowl, stir together the oats, flour, coconut, and sugar.
Gently melt the butter and golden syrup together in a saucepan over low heat, then take it off the heat.
Stir the baking soda into the boiling water, then pour it into the melted butter — it will foam up like a little science experiment! Mix it into the dry ingredients.
Roll walnut-sized balls, place them on the trays with room to spread, and press each one down a little.
Bake for 12–15 minutes until golden. They'll be soft at first — let them cool on the tray for 5 minutes, then move to a rack to go chewy-crisp.

💡 Chef Axl's tips

Cook them a little less for chewy biscuits, a little more for crunchy ones — you choose!
The baking-soda-and-water foam is the fun part; let a grown-up handle the boiling water.
Store in a tin and they stay lovely for a week — just like the ones sent overseas long ago.

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All-Purpose Flour

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Brown Sugar

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Anzac Biscuits

🏛 A little history

👩‍🍳 Let's bake!

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