Snack foods and biscuit recipes

[Andy Hamilton]

Anyone have snack food or buscuit recipes? Keep snacking on cream crackers with cottage cheese and it is getting a bit boring.

[Tigerhair]

What kind of bikkies do you like? Shortbreads? Digestive? Choccie Orange Bikkies? Gingernuts? Oat & Raisin crunchies?...

[Andy Hamilton]

All of them!

[shiney]

How about wholemeal choc chip cookies? They never last long in my house!

Shout and I'll dig the recipe out.

[Shirley]

shouting - yes please shiney

[Tigerhair]

Piggy!

do you like honey?

[Shirley]

in fact...any particularly nutritious biscuit recipes would be very welcome here... twonager has gone off food at the moment but still loves biscuits.

[Shirley]

I did some scrummy maple syrup and cinammon biscuits recently - really easy to make, and then store in the fridge as a roll so you can slice off a few rounds and have freshly made biscuits in a matter of minutes.

[Tigerhair]

http://www.allhomemadecookies.com/

I've made these from there:
Scotch Shortbread
by All Homemade Cookies

This crisp, thick, and buttery cookie is an old-time delicacy from Scotland. If desired, you can tint the dough in assorted colors before chilling. These are great cookies for tea parties or the holidays!

Makes about 2 dozen cookies

Ingredients:

3/4 c. butter, softened

1/4 c. sugar

2 cups flour

Directions:

Cream together the butter and sugar. Work the flour in with your hands. Chill. Roll the dough to 1/3 - 1/2 inch thick. Cut into desired shapes. Place on ungreased baking sheet and bake in a 350 preheated oven for 20-25 minutes. (The tops will not brown.)

[Andy Hamilton]

Wicked, cheers for that.

[Wombat]

What about ANZAC biscuits?

Nev

[Andy Hamilton]

ANY biscuit recipes will do, never heard of ANZAC bics. Wasn't ANZAC something to do with WW2?

[ina]

No idea what ANZAC biscuits are, but here's our basic recipe for oat cookies.

125 g rolled oats
50 g sunflower oil
50 g sugar
50 g flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 egg

Roast oats in oil in frying pan. When they start to turn light brown, add half the sugar and keep roasting for a bit (don't burn!!!). Leave to cool.

Beat egg with remaining sugar and add flavour of your choice: Spices like mixed spice, cinnamon, aniseed, vanilla; or cocoa, juice and grated rind of lemon... Add the cool oat mixture and flour plus baking powder. At this stage you could also add some sultanas, mixed peel, chopped nuts, other chopped dried fruit... If the mix gets too stiff, use a bit of milk/water/juice to soften.

Drop spoonfuls of the mix onto greased baking tray and bake at medium heat for about 20 minutes.

You can make them as nutritious and healthy as possible by using wholemeal flour and raw sugar (or honey instead - but that's not so good at the roasting stage); you could cut down on the oil - or use butter if you prefer. There are countless variations. I usually make 4 times that quantity, then divide the mixture up and add different spices and fruit to each part. They keep quite well (if you don't eat them all).

[Tigerhair]

History of the Soldier's biscuit here:

http://www.anzacday.org.au/miscellaneous/bikkies.html

Recipe at the link I gave Andy earlier,

[Wombat]

That's the stuff tigz!