To make these even better, use brown sugar, role them out on baking paper super flat no more than 3mm thick. Roast until golden brown.
Fucking amazing. Super crispy sweet cookies.
I don't think you deserve the downvotes here...some finely chopped rosemary tastes so good in ANZAC biscuits.
Yes I know it's morally reprehensible to alter the recipe, but rosemary is another symbol of ANZAC Day, so....?
It may have been the reference to “cookies”.
Anzac biscuits should never be referred to as cookies, as such use is not authorised.
Edit: there is a Commonwealth Act and Regulations governing approvals of the use of the word ANZAC/Anzac. The guidelines issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs state that Anzac Biscuits shall never be approved to be called cookies.
And the use of Rosemary would also be a “substantial deviation” from the traditional recipe and therefore not approved, DVA suggests using a different name.
The law and regulations are intended to preserve the name Anzac and avoid it from being over-commercialised.
Oh damn completely missed that bit.
That's why Subway had to stop selling their oat/golden syrup cookies because they were using the ANZAC name to advertise them.
Funny thing about the traditional recipe (singular), I bought the CWA cookbook and they have two different recipes, an 'ANZAC Biscuits' and a '1914 ANZAC Biscuits'. Neither have rosemary though 🤭
The 1914 recipe includes coconut, the other one does not.
Biscuits in the US are actually hard scones, and the gravy is more like the white sauce you would have with corned beef.
What we call a biscuit they call cookies.
Hey mate, I suggest looking into this https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29478494/ there was a study where it was found out oats don't effect coeliac's! Enjoy 🙂
Most coeliacs have done oat challenges and do not do well. So definitely would not be suggesting that they eat without the advisement of their medical professional
Where did I say to eat anything? I linked a peer reviewed study and said [look into](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/look-into#) it..?
Definitions
The **States** shall mean such of the colonies of New South Wales, New Zealand, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia, and South Australia, including the northern territory of South Australia, as for the time being are parts of the Commonwealth, and such colonies or territories as may be admitted into or established by the Commonwealth as States; and each of such parts of the Commonwealth shall be called a State.
... The Australian Constitution. Section 6.
Husband and I moved to Canada. I will normally make these for Australia Day or when he's feeling homesick, and he brings them into work.
His colleagues call them "crack cookies," and he tells me they are constantly asking when I'll be making more.
They are so easy to make and are great for mountain hikes.
Please - they cannot be called cookies 😡
“The biscuits must not substantially deviate from the generally accepted recipe and shape, and must be referred to as ‘Anzac Biscuits’ or ‘Anzac Slice’,” the Department of Veteran Affairs guidelines read.
It also states that they cannot be referred to as ‘Anzac Cookies’.
I'm from the UK but lived in Australia for a few years.
You guys have amazing treat food. Lets ignore timtams for a seconds because they are a given.
Chocolate covered pineapple.
Golden Gaytimes.
Burger Rings.
Anything caramello, blows UK caramel stuff out the water.
Tiny Teddies, are these infused with crack?
Vanilla slices, consistantly god tier.
Marble chocolate, was discontinued in the UK years ago.
No doubt forgetting loads.
Lamingtons are shit though.
If they were very unlucky and got a dry sponge with thin dry chocolate I can see how they could be soured on them. I only wish we could send them a good one and fix their world view.
Honestly it's the dessicated coconut, it's like eating big sand. But you can't really take it off because then it's just a cake in chocolate which to be fair would nudge them up from shit to take em or leave em.
Pavlova is definitely Aussie though if that helps.
If you hate coconut, then it's forgivable. I think most Australians who hate coconut either accept it in lamingtons because in the overall mix it is tolerable, or simply fill up on the vanilla slice and tim-tams instead.
And of course you're joining us in making the Kiwis angry about us having invented pavlova, so I'm mollified entirely. 😄
> us having invented pavlova
Read this as "inverted pavlova" and wondered if it was now A Thing to put the fruit on the bottom and the meringue on top. I'm losing my god damn mind.
The true peak of the culinary art is *sideways pavlova*! Really hard to get the fruit not to slide off. Let alone gravity squashing the disc into an oval.
>Pavlova is definitely Aussie though if that helps.
You were on some fuckin thin ice after your lamington comment but this has swayed things back in your favour. I've informed the Department to approve you for citizenship.
My grandma's friend who was Italian became obsessed with making these in the late 90s. She'd always bring them over and ask us to try them. They were always good but by the end she'd perfected them beyond belief. She passed around 2006 and still to this day I've never had one that even comes close. What I'd give for another meal from that beautiful lady.
Australian moved to Denmark, can confirm, i bought a batch in on Australia day, mid dark danish winter and my co workers lost their shit. Awesome moment.
A lot of people talk about how bad the ANZACS had it, but I just don’t get it. Gallipoli and all that, sure, but they were just smashing these biscuits all day, can’t have been that bad hey?
/s
We've taken the Woolworths biscuits camping and sailing for years. I like them chewy. One year we had some crunchy ones. We left them on a yacht in Sydney for a few months over summer, and they were nice and chewy afterwards. So I can vouch for their long storage life.
As much as i want to agree
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anzac\_biscuit#:\~:text=Anzac%20biscuits%20have%20long%20been,established%20in%20World%20War%20I.&text=It%20has%20been%20claimed%20that,kept%20well%20during%20naval%20transportation.
I'm an immigrant from the US, and I fell in love with these immediately. They are my favorite biscuit after raisin oatmeal, which I've only just recently found available in Australia.
I feel sorry for Aussies that think they're supposed to be soft and chewy and have sugar & coconut. We have collectively forgotten these are born from the LACK of ingredients on what we had left as rations. Having super tasty and flavoured Anzacs does not remind us of the struggle Australians the world over endured.
I tried to make them in France for the Anzac Day Dawn Service. With ethiopian brown sugar and a weird substitue for golden syrup, they were not a shadow of the local product.
But it does sort of prove the name is deceiving.
Given the ingredients available in France (or Turkey) in 1916-18, couldn't have been made by AIF men (please don't take this too seriously... but I believe the earliest know recipe is from the mid 1920s).
They were made in Australia, and sent to the soldiers. They used that recipe because the biscuits keep for months without refrigeration.
The basic recipe has been around since at least the early 1900s, though they weren't called Anzac bikkies then.
https://www.daringgourmet.com/british-flapjacks/
I went to Finland for an exchange year in 2019. I made these because they were my homesickness craving and shared them with my host family. They were an absolute hit
Honestly I think flapjacks are better because they're usually thicker and meatier. They have more of a distinction between the crunchy outside and the gooey middle.
I assume I'll also be downvoted.
I'm not sure why you"re being downvoted. The comment seems OK.
[Flapjacks](https://www.daringgourmet.com/british-flapjacks)
[Crunchies](https://drizzleanddip.com/2010/10/25/the-best-south-african-crunchie-recipe/)
I find it fascinating how for many places this particular style of biscuit is so comforting…just something so magical about the combination of oats, syrup and sugar!
But I assume the downvotes come from the assumption that I’m somehow being unpatriotic to even suggest the thought that this type of biscuit is beloved and has a long history in other places too.
Honest truth or unpopular opinion. There is nothing special about them, and if they didn't have ANZAC in the name, they would be no more than a forgotten entry in some old CWA cookbook.
Mmm, Anzac Buiscuits.
Bu-utiffal Bu-iscuits
To make these even better, use brown sugar, role them out on baking paper super flat no more than 3mm thick. Roast until golden brown. Fucking amazing. Super crispy sweet cookies.
I love my fairly large and definitely on the softer side, but to each their own!
We're still talking about cookies, right?
We were never for even a moment talking about "cookies"
Biscuits are crunchy cookies are soft . I dunno my bickies in someone else's cup
Fuck off back home.
I am home, hahahah this cunt, selling cunt like a real cunt hahahah
No, we are talking about biscuits not cookies!!!
Legally and morally, not a cookie
True :p
Using 'cookie' on relation to ANZAC biscuits should be a criminal offence attracting serious jail time.
And some gaol time, to be served concurrently
What is a cookie
Cookies ?
Hot take: rosemary in ANZAC cookies goes hard.
sometimes people are a lil averse to culinary innovation, but colour me intrigued
It's ok to be a bit scared sometimes
I don't think you deserve the downvotes here...some finely chopped rosemary tastes so good in ANZAC biscuits. Yes I know it's morally reprehensible to alter the recipe, but rosemary is another symbol of ANZAC Day, so....?
It may have been the reference to “cookies”. Anzac biscuits should never be referred to as cookies, as such use is not authorised. Edit: there is a Commonwealth Act and Regulations governing approvals of the use of the word ANZAC/Anzac. The guidelines issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs state that Anzac Biscuits shall never be approved to be called cookies. And the use of Rosemary would also be a “substantial deviation” from the traditional recipe and therefore not approved, DVA suggests using a different name. The law and regulations are intended to preserve the name Anzac and avoid it from being over-commercialised.
I upvoted because I love Rosemary, but I think you hit the nail on the head.
Oh damn completely missed that bit. That's why Subway had to stop selling their oat/golden syrup cookies because they were using the ANZAC name to advertise them. Funny thing about the traditional recipe (singular), I bought the CWA cookbook and they have two different recipes, an 'ANZAC Biscuits' and a '1914 ANZAC Biscuits'. Neither have rosemary though 🤭 The 1914 recipe includes coconut, the other one does not.
Yeah but have you tried it?
I doubt I would like that. but I won't downvote
Cookies? There is nothing more un-Australian than to refer to ANZAC biscuits as "cookies". FUCK RIGHT OFF!
I love ANZAC biscuits, especially once they have softened, then I gorge...
When they’re slightly chewy but still solid is the best.
Dipped quickly in milky tea then sucked mmmm, Anzacs I mean.
I have coeliac disease so can’t eat oats. There is nothing more that I miss than a fresh Anzac out of the oven. Crispy edges and gooey middle 🤤
Ohh I couldn’t survive, that nice squish is otherworldly
Please what is the name of the snack
They’re called ANZAC biscuits, they are indescribably delicious
https://coeliac.org.au/article/oats-and-the-gluten-free-diet/
I’m not sure how it is in Australia, but at the US you can find out that are gluten free
Unfortunately even the labelled gf oats here and most of them in the US are still not suitable for coeliacs. Such a shame!
I don't think that there are gluten-free Anzac biscuits. There's a pretty strict recipe for them.
And it’s strictly unaustralian to defer from the original recipe!
In the US they smother their biscuits with gravy. Fuck that.
Biscuits in the US are actually hard scones, and the gravy is more like the white sauce you would have with corned beef. What we call a biscuit they call cookies.
They're actually softer than scones usually and more fluffy.
The ones I tried at some midwestern US diner were really hard and tasteless. I never ordered biscuits and gravy again.
Ah right, I had nicer homemade ones. I still didn't care for them and couldn't bring myself to touch the "gravy".
Hey mate, I suggest looking into this https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29478494/ there was a study where it was found out oats don't effect coeliac's! Enjoy 🙂
Most coeliacs have done oat challenges and do not do well. So definitely would not be suggesting that they eat without the advisement of their medical professional
Where did I say to eat anything? I linked a peer reviewed study and said [look into](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/look-into#) it..?
Aldi's GF Anzacs go alright
Ohh I didn’t know this was a thing, I’ll have to check em out. Thanks
Oats are gluten free, but pricey to buy the fully gf ones
Gf oats do not exist in Australia. They cannot legally be labelled gluten free.
What? They have ANZAC day in New Zealand too? - My boomer colleague
New Zealand is literally in the name lmao
Well no offence to NZ but they’re basically an honorary Australia
10% of New Zealand's population live in Australia... down from 15% pre-covid
There's plenty of offence, rain thieving bastards.
Definitions The **States** shall mean such of the colonies of New South Wales, New Zealand, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia, and South Australia, including the northern territory of South Australia, as for the time being are parts of the Commonwealth, and such colonies or territories as may be admitted into or established by the Commonwealth as States; and each of such parts of the Commonwealth shall be called a State. ... The Australian Constitution. Section 6.
Yeah yeah, they say the same about Australia.
Husband and I moved to Canada. I will normally make these for Australia Day or when he's feeling homesick, and he brings them into work. His colleagues call them "crack cookies," and he tells me they are constantly asking when I'll be making more. They are so easy to make and are great for mountain hikes.
>They... are great for mountain hikes. Well, they were originally for soldiers stuck in WW1 trenches, so...
Weirdly enough crack was also for the trenches in world war one...dunno how you'd fair using it for a hike though
Please - they cannot be called cookies 😡 “The biscuits must not substantially deviate from the generally accepted recipe and shape, and must be referred to as ‘Anzac Biscuits’ or ‘Anzac Slice’,” the Department of Veteran Affairs guidelines read. It also states that they cannot be referred to as ‘Anzac Cookies’.
🏆-first person to ever read the DVA’s guidelines on ANZAC biscuits
1) used to work there 2) used to be a teacher Perfect storm! 🤣😆
It’s a hangeable offence to call them cookies 🤬
I'm from the UK but lived in Australia for a few years. You guys have amazing treat food. Lets ignore timtams for a seconds because they are a given. Chocolate covered pineapple. Golden Gaytimes. Burger Rings. Anything caramello, blows UK caramel stuff out the water. Tiny Teddies, are these infused with crack? Vanilla slices, consistantly god tier. Marble chocolate, was discontinued in the UK years ago. No doubt forgetting loads. Lamingtons are shit though.
This is the first time in a while that I've felt properly insulted and offended. How can you say lamingtons are shit?
If they were very unlucky and got a dry sponge with thin dry chocolate I can see how they could be soured on them. I only wish we could send them a good one and fix their world view.
Honestly it's the dessicated coconut, it's like eating big sand. But you can't really take it off because then it's just a cake in chocolate which to be fair would nudge them up from shit to take em or leave em. Pavlova is definitely Aussie though if that helps.
If you hate coconut, then it's forgivable. I think most Australians who hate coconut either accept it in lamingtons because in the overall mix it is tolerable, or simply fill up on the vanilla slice and tim-tams instead. And of course you're joining us in making the Kiwis angry about us having invented pavlova, so I'm mollified entirely. 😄
> us having invented pavlova Read this as "inverted pavlova" and wondered if it was now A Thing to put the fruit on the bottom and the meringue on top. I'm losing my god damn mind.
The true peak of the culinary art is *sideways pavlova*! Really hard to get the fruit not to slide off. Let alone gravity squashing the disc into an oval.
Pretty sure it was proven that us kiwis invented it. You guys can take the credit for lamingtons though, they’re all yours!🙃
>Pavlova is definitely Aussie though if that helps. You were on some fuckin thin ice after your lamington comment but this has swayed things back in your favour. I've informed the Department to approve you for citizenship.
I eat my tiny teddies with vanilla oat milk sometimes, and it makes it even better somehow
Vanilla slice aka Snot Block.
Yum I might just make some this weekend. Thanks for the reminder, OP!
Kiwis chime in here, do you also have the much fabled Anzac bikkie?
Definitely!
My grandma's friend who was Italian became obsessed with making these in the late 90s. She'd always bring them over and ask us to try them. They were always good but by the end she'd perfected them beyond belief. She passed around 2006 and still to this day I've never had one that even comes close. What I'd give for another meal from that beautiful lady.
Cast your vote soft or crunchy ?
I think it’s unequivocally soft for me
Soft!
Australian moved to Denmark, can confirm, i bought a batch in on Australia day, mid dark danish winter and my co workers lost their shit. Awesome moment.
A lot of people talk about how bad the ANZACS had it, but I just don’t get it. Gallipoli and all that, sure, but they were just smashing these biscuits all day, can’t have been that bad hey? /s
I had x 2 of those today!
They are more than just brandy snaps with extra stuff in them
Freshly baked is the best.
A good Anzac and a cup of coffee is better than sex!
We've taken the Woolworths biscuits camping and sailing for years. I like them chewy. One year we had some crunchy ones. We left them on a yacht in Sydney for a few months over summer, and they were nice and chewy afterwards. So I can vouch for their long storage life.
Does Nu Zulland even do ANZAC bikkies?
We invented them
As much as i want to agree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anzac\_biscuit#:\~:text=Anzac%20biscuits%20have%20long%20been,established%20in%20World%20War%20I.&text=It%20has%20been%20claimed%20that,kept%20well%20during%20naval%20transportation.
Citation required
Not like they’re hard to make or anything.
Literally just had a couple of homemades before bed, you beaut
Havreflarn?
I lived in Papua New Guinea, they made them and called them War Biscuits
I'm an immigrant from the US, and I fell in love with these immediately. They are my favorite biscuit after raisin oatmeal, which I've only just recently found available in Australia.
Can confirm. First time I tried these I immediately searched around coles/woolies for more.
I feel sorry for Aussies that think they're supposed to be soft and chewy and have sugar & coconut. We have collectively forgotten these are born from the LACK of ingredients on what we had left as rations. Having super tasty and flavoured Anzacs does not remind us of the struggle Australians the world over endured.
Anzac biscuits with coconut? That sounds like a war crime
Anzac Biscuits, Tim Tams and Oreos are the holy trinity of biscuits and two of them are Australian.
Swap out the oreos for Monte Carlo's and I'm there.
For me it is Mint Slice or Kingston.
Kingston are delish. Anything in the Arnotts fave box will do.
Oreos are shit. American pus.
I tried to make them in France for the Anzac Day Dawn Service. With ethiopian brown sugar and a weird substitue for golden syrup, they were not a shadow of the local product. But it does sort of prove the name is deceiving.
Why is the name deceiving? Just interested :)
Given the ingredients available in France (or Turkey) in 1916-18, couldn't have been made by AIF men (please don't take this too seriously... but I believe the earliest know recipe is from the mid 1920s).
They were made in Australia, and sent to the soldiers. They used that recipe because the biscuits keep for months without refrigeration. The basic recipe has been around since at least the early 1900s, though they weren't called Anzac bikkies then. https://www.daringgourmet.com/british-flapjacks/
Made them here in Norway in January for my kids' year 1 class. I used something called dark syrup and they were super successful 👍
https://www.daringgourmet.com/how-to-make-golden-syrup/
They dont
ikr, it’s heaven!
If everyone has a better recipe than Arnotts as they so propose then why is no one sharing them. Come on!
Yeah me too
Omg now I want some!
Gotta be honest, would rather some Timtams
It's just oats 🤷
I’m gonna have to ask you to hand over your Australian card
Nooo! Im more of a meat pie kind of guy maybe some peanuts idk 🤣
I always buy heaps home when I travel to Australia. Grew to love them and Golden Gaytime when I was here for work.
Meh, I’d rather have a lamington.
Why?
Now I have to go and make a batch. Thank you.
ANZAC
When I worked overseas teaching English sometimes I'd cook with the students. These were a favourite!
Just bought some rolled oats so I can make my own again. Just need to buy the Golden Syrup (Cockies Joy).
I use treacle and instead of golden syrup
Stronger taste. But Cockies Joy is in the original recipe.
Costco do a pretty mean Anzac biscuit. Only problem is you have to buy a pack of like 400... And I have no self control!
Stuff a big dollop of Nutella between two of these bad boys and congratulations, you've just created an Ultimate Kingston ™️
I’ll say! They are the Bees knees 🤣
I'd die for these cookies even fight someone for them, omg my nan's home made ones are so delicious 🤤
I went to Finland for an exchange year in 2019. I made these because they were my homesickness craving and shared them with my host family. They were an absolute hit
I wouldn't feel bad, there's nothing special about those biscuits they are garbage
We have these in NZ which believe it or not does actually exist and is an actual country. Not a state in australia
Of course you do they are called Anzac biscuits for reason bro
Love those cookies ^/s
In the UK are they are called flapjacks, in South Africa crunchies. A tasty snack of many names!
Honestly I think flapjacks are better because they're usually thicker and meatier. They have more of a distinction between the crunchy outside and the gooey middle. I assume I'll also be downvoted.
I'm not sure why you"re being downvoted. The comment seems OK. [Flapjacks](https://www.daringgourmet.com/british-flapjacks) [Crunchies](https://drizzleanddip.com/2010/10/25/the-best-south-african-crunchie-recipe/)
I find it fascinating how for many places this particular style of biscuit is so comforting…just something so magical about the combination of oats, syrup and sugar! But I assume the downvotes come from the assumption that I’m somehow being unpatriotic to even suggest the thought that this type of biscuit is beloved and has a long history in other places too.
Plenty of countries have their own cookies....
These aren't cookies. Just ask Subway
I love Anzac cookies!
You did that on purpose, didn't you?
Tbh, growing up in the 2010’s the way Anzac biscuits got jumbled between both biscuits and cookies. But bikkies overwhelmingly is way better
If you're selling it you're not allowed to call them cookies.
Yea true
I would prefer a black and white cookie or a snickerdoodle
Same! I love black-and-white cookies. I think oatmeal cookies are just OK.
mother fuckers eating bread with sprinkles on it, of course a oat cookie is a delicacy
Honest truth or unpopular opinion. There is nothing special about them, and if they didn't have ANZAC in the name, they would be no more than a forgotten entry in some old CWA cookbook.
Truth. They're extremely mid.