Oaty, coconutty biscuits

After trying out lots of recipes from the same cookie book, and failing miserably, I've managed to bake some that are not only edible but actually nice!

Anzac biscuits

100 g porridge oats

150 g plain flour

100 g soft light brown sugar

50 g desiccated coconut

115 g butter

2 tbsp honey

1 tbsp hot water 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda

Preheat oven to 190C.

Mix oats, flour, sugar and coconut in a bowl.

Melt the butter and honey on a pot.

Mix the hot water and soda bicarbonate on a little bowl and then pour over the butter and honey. Mix together and then pour over the oat mixture.

Stir it all together and then, with your hands, make small balls, place them on a baking sheet and flatten them slightly.

Bake for 10 minutes until golden.

Leave the biscuits on the baking sheet for a few minutes before transferring them to a wire rack to cool.

Mama's lemon cake

which turned out quite well, considering it is absolutely impossible to whip evaporated milk in this country...

Lemon Cake

1 lemon (zest and juice)

1 glass of sugar

1 glass of water

175g of evaporated milk

Lemon gelatine (brought from Spain, so who knows how to get it here in the same format)

6 digestive biscuits

A bit of milk and a teaspoon of liqueur (I used baileys).

Some more sugar for the caramel (~3tbsp)

Put the sugar for the caramel in a fireproof tin (I used a normal oven tin) and melt it over the fire until it gets liquid. Let it cold down.

In a sauce pan mix water, lemon zest, juice and the sugar. Heat until it starts boiling. Remove from the fire and add the gelatine. Leave to cool down a bit.

Whip the evaporated milk (if you can!). I tried for quite a long time and gave up, but my mum swears she can do it...

Mix the milk with the sugar/lemon mixture and then pour over the cold solidified caramel. 

Mix three or four tablespoons of milk with the baileys and dunk the biscuits (without getting them soft!). Arrange on top of the cake (no need to make it too pretty, as this will be the bottom of the cake).

Leave it overnight in the fridge.

Biscuits!

These biscuits are really good! They crumble in your mouth and they're soooo unhealthy! :-P Love them!

White chocolate and cardamom biscuits

125 g butter (softened)
25 g caster sugar
125 g plain flour
60 g cornflour
3 cardamom pods
25 g white chocolate chips
1 tsp orange flower water
50 g white chocolate

Mix the butter and sugar and beat until pale and fluffy. Add the sifted flours (both plain and cornflour) to the butter and sugar and mix until well combined and smooth.

Get the small seeds from the cardamom pods (discarding the husks) and crush them to a fine powder. Add the cardamom, chocolate chips and orange flower water to the butter/flour mix and combine well.

Place the dough in a piece of cling film and form a sausage (size is up to you!).

Leave the "sausage" in the fridge for at least an hour.

Slice the dough into pieces of around 1 cm thick. Place in a baking sheet and bake for 25 minutes. Move to a wire rack to let them cool down.

Once the biscuits are cold, melt the rest of the white chocolate and decorate the biscuits.

Nutella and hazelnut biscuits

I've taken this recipe from the Ma Petite Boulangerie blog... She has the most amazing recipes!!!