Before we went camping for Easter, I did a whole lot of baking to take with us. I’ve had the cookbook Ladies, a Plate for a while now, but haven’t cook much out of it. For camping, I baked two New Zealand classics – Anzacs, and Afghans. I have to say that these are the best recipes for these biscuits I have used.
These are my Afghans:
And from another angle:
So close up you can see my fingerprints on the chocolate icing – I’m an advocate of using hands for cooking! They are not too sweet, nice and have heaps of cornflakes in them for crispiness (if you don’t know what Afghans are, they are a cocoa-y chocolaty biscuit, with crunchy cornflakes in them, chocolate icing and always a walnut to top it off!). Yum.
I have always had problems with ANZAC biscuit recipes, but this one is great. I have made them several times before from recipes which end up as one big pool of golden-syrupy buttery oats, but these ones spread out nicely – not too much! They melt in your mouth too. ANZAC biscuits are made from mainly oats and coconut, and are flavoured with Golden Syrup. For the first lot I made, I used some walnuts as the recipes suggested – apparently they are one of the traditional ingredients, but not used so much these days because they are quite expensive… Are you ready for the photo?
Absolutely delicious – they just melt in your mouth! I was so impressed with these recipes, I’ve now bought the second Ladies, a Plate book so I can do some more yummy baking!