What is an ANZAC cookie? In fact, what is an ANZAC you ask? Great question! I'm not sure if this term is familiar to anyone except those living either in Australia or NZ or perhaps other countries in the Commonwealth. For those who don't know...
ANZAC = Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
The cookies are traditionally eaten on ANZAC day (25th April) which is a day where we commemorate all the Australian + NZ men and women who have served their nation in times of war.
What does this have to do with a cookie?
I'm just remembering what I was taught at school here in Australia but basically in WWI, the wives and partners of men who had gone to war wanted to send over a tasty snack to keep the soldiers going and so they developed a recipe using cheap, everyday ingredients. Thus the ANZAC cookie was born...the cookie does not spoil easily and also travelled well when it needed to be shipped overseas.
It looks just like an oatmeal cookie
Well it basically is! It just uses ingredients that are very common in Australia such as rolled oats and golden syrup :)
Less talky, more cookie
Yes sir! Let's get started...
Step One
Ingredients required:
(Woops I forgot my usual ingredients post, but uh they're slightly boring ingredients anyway so I can list them instead)
- Plain flour
- Brown sugar
- Rolled oats
- Desiccated coconut
- Golden syrup
- Bi-carb soda
- BUTTER
Step Two
All the dry ingredients into a bowl please.
Step Three
Melt butter, golden syrup and 2 TBSP water in a small saucepan
(That's our dinner cooking in the back there!)
Step Four
Combine wet + dry
Step Five
Roll into balls and leave plenty of room as they will spread. Pop into a 140C pre-heated oven for 12 minutes.
Step Six
Let them cool on the tray for a few minutes then transfer to a wire rack to completely cool.
Tasty, Easy, what else can you ask for in a cookie?
Nothing. Absolutely nothing. I had to convince myself that my snacking was in the name of quality and that I was 'taste-testing' but truth be told I just kept eating them just 'cause.
Yep, we are gonna be faaaaaaaaaaat in the coming days that's for sure.
I think I will exercise some self-control and actually bring these in for my workmates so at least I'm sharing it with the Steemit community AND taking care of my health whilst feeding my fellow colleagues...win/win/win.
Hope you guys enjoyed this one, let me know what your fav cookie flavour is !!
@phamished xx
You are not helping my diet! :/
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I'm sorry!! I have some healthy recipes too! :D Just scroll down my blog a bit hehe
I actually made a healthy version of this cookie too but it was very difficult to shape so I didn't post it...
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Man, I could really go some of these right now.
Haha gimme your address and I’ll send them over!!! If they could travel for weeks at sea back 80 years ago they can travel by plane now 😂😂
...alternatively you could whip them up and be eating them in 30 minutes 🤓😛
Yeah, that's probably easier.
Good thing I had some cookies on hand LOL
But since they ship so well, let me send you my address 🤪
visiting you from the alliance :)
Hahaha I would actually send them but they might arrive in crumbs :( the ones I made are soft and chewy so would likely crumble!!
I think the real ones they sent during the war were ROCK HARD!
Thank you for visiting me, always great to see a familiar friendly face!! 🤗😊🤗
I think shipping would cost 10 times the cost of the ingredients. But if I ever come to your part of the woods, I am going to stop by and ask you to make me some 🤪
It's a deal!! Or if I can't bake them I can most certainly redirect you to some very famous bakeries that I'm sure would do an even better job!
👍
Cooooooooooool
You are very welcome!