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Anzacs
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- Makes
8
- Difficulty
Easy
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Published 2017
‘Anzac’ stands for Australia New Zealand Army Corp. These cookies are part of New Zealand and Australia’s wartime history. Wives would use their rations to bake these delicious cookies, sending them by sea to their homesick hubbies. They do keep for ages in an airtight container. We have sexed them up with the addition of cranberries, pumpkin seeds and dried apricots.
- The dough may seem greasy and sticky but this is good! It mustn’t be dry or crumbly or the coo
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These are indeed closely related to British flapjacks. There is a book devoted entirely to ANZAC biscuits from which I also learned that there are both crunchy and chewy varieties. As with flapjacks, the cooking time seems to play an important role in where they fall on that spectrum. We slightly undercooked these on our first attempt, which meant they were a little too soft and crumbly- but still delicious. Will cook a bit longer next time, to get a bit more 'bite'.
I make them as a tray-bake (a bit like a flapjack so I call them anzacjacks) and cut them smaller. As a tray bake it needs a few minutes longer in the oven. No idea how long they'd keep, mine all get eaten in a couple of days at most. One of my testers had the nerve to say they'd had better, essentially the same but with sunflower seeds - will try next time (cut coconut to 50g, add 40g sunflower).