I enjoy baking from Mary Berry’s Baking Bible and trying out recipes I have not made before.  My husband is Australian (though he has lived in the UK since he was a child)  and we were interested to try Anzac biscuits as we knew the history behind them. I had made the version of Anzac biscuits from one of Annabel Karmel’s books a few years back and remembered that they contained oats and desiccated coconut.  I had baked an Apricot Loaf on one day before we broke up for half term and thought that a full tin of biscuits were what was needed on these cold, dark and depressing October evenings.  I craved some sugar and sweetness along with a steaming cuppa of Yorkshire tea when I got in from work.  I also thought if I made them with coconut then I would be able to leave them in the tin without the other members of the family nicking them.

I had greased three baking trays and lined them with my baking parchment.  Mary Berry says this recipe makes 45 biscuits, I definitely didn’t get 45 out of mine, more like 28!  Well to be fair, I do like a big biscuit, not one that is only one mouthful.  I was glad I baked them in batches with 6 to a baking tray as they do spread out a lot on the tray and would otherwise merge together.  It took ages to get them all baked off but it was worth it.

When I told my children I had made some biscuits they came rushing in into the kitchen. I did not tell my daughter they had coconut in (she doesn’t have an allergy, she just doesn’t like coconut) but she ate a biscuit and said they were lovely!  My son and hubby who love Bounty bars really enjoyed them. As for me, I couldn’t keep my hand out of the biscuit tin!

In a way I shouldn’t have made the biscuits as they were a mega diet fail for me but I couldn’t help it. The diet starts again tomorrow!

Happy Baking!
Love Sam xx

Mary Berry’s Anzac Biscuits- they don’t look exciting but I can assure you they taste gorgeous and that, to me is what matters the most!