The easiest ANZAC biscuit recipe ever

April 18th, 2012

Appliance Talk Ovens & Cooking

Butter, sugar and syrup. Sounds good.

Sometimes the finest things in life are the simplest, like my Mum’s ANZAC biscuit recipe.

As with most things she does in the kitchen, it is straightforward and delicious.

ANZAC biscuit recipe

What you’ll need:

130 grams of butter

2 tablespoons of golden syrup

120 grams of sugar

120 grams of flour

1 cup of rolled oats

120 grams of desiccated coconut

1 teaspoon of baking powder.

What you’ll do:

Melt the butter and add the syrup and sugar.

Mix the rest in.

Spoon onto an oven tray and pop ’em in for 15 minutes at 160 degrees.

UPDATE: The earlier version of this recipe had omitted the rolled oats. Sorry about that, sometimes the most obvious things are sometimes overlooked!

What’s ANZAC Day?

ANZAC stands for Australia New Zealand Army Corps. The 25th of April commemorates the day from World War One in 1915 when these soldiers landed in Gallipoli, modern day Turkey.

The allied troops set out to capture the peninsula but were dropped off on a beach with a tremendous strategic disadvantage. Over 11,000 Australians and New Zealanders were killed in a battle which lasted 8 months.

The 25th of April was officially named ANZAC Day in 1916, being marked by a series of ceremonies and marches through Europe and the Tasman.

Today, it is commemorated from towns small and large with a dawn service followed by a ceremony later in the day.

Poppies are usually worn in November to salute the memory of those who sacrificed their lives. It was a flower which bloomed in the trenches and craters of war zones, including Gallipoli in the spring.