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Peppermint Slice
My Nan's Easy Hedgehog
Brownies
Anzac Biscuits
Tweed Squares


PEPPERMINT SLICE
(Really easy)

1 Pkt Crown Mints
1 Pkt Malt Biscuits
¾ tin Condensed Milk
Coconut

Remove mints and biscuits from packets and leave overnight to soften. Crush mints and biscuits and mix well with condensed milk. Form into a roll and roll in coconut. Cut into slices

* Kids reckon this is nice

Submitted by: Cheryl - (formally was - Orchid)

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MY NAN'S EASY HEDGEHOG

Melt in a pan -

185g Butter, 
185g Sugar, 
1 beaten Egg, 
1 Tab Cocoa, 
1 Tab Gelatine, 
Vanilla. 

Don't boil.

Add 250g crushed Biscuits & ½ cup Walnuts.   Refrigerate & cover with chocy icing - don't forget the 100's & 1000's!!!

Submitted by: Kelli (Blue Wren)

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BROWNIES

1 cup Butter 
2 cups Flour 
2 cups Sugar 
1/2 cup Cocoa
2 Eggs 
1/3 cup Maraschino Cherries (optional)
1 tsp Vanilla 
1/2 cup Nuts (optional)

Cream butter & sugar.  Add eggs, vanilla, flour & cocoa & mix.  Add optionals.  Bake 180° for 20 min.  When cooked mixture seems "uncooked" in middle.

Submitted by: Kelli (Blue Wren)

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Anzac Biscuits

These chewy biscuits were originally made and sent in tins to Australian soldiers at the battlefields during WW1. ANZAC stands for Australian & New Zealand Army Corp. They have become a favourite addition to Aussie school lunch boxes.

1 cup Plain Flour
1 cup Rolled Oats
3/4 cup Desiccated Coconut
3/4 cup Caster Sugar
125g (1/4 lb) Butter
1 tablespoon Golden Syrup
1-1/2 Teasp. Bicarbonate of Soda
2 Tab. boiling water

Preheat oven to Slow (150° celsius). Grease 2 oven trays. Place flour, oats, coconut and sugar in large bowl, stir. Combine butter and Golden Syrup in small pan, stir over high heat until melted. Mix soda with boiling water, add to melted butter mix. Add to flour mixture, stir until just combined. Shape level Tabspful of mixture into balls and flatten slightly; place onto trays about 6 cm apart. Bake 15-20 minutes or until crisp and golden. Remove from oven, stand 2 mins. Loosen biscuits and cool on wire rack. Makes about 25.

Submitted by: Andrea

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Tweed Squares

Cream together: 

1/2 cup of butter
 2/3 cup white sugar

 Add: 

1 1/3 cup flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1/2 cup of milk
1 tsp vanilla
2 egg whites, beaten
1 sq semi-sweet chocolate, grated

Bake in a 9 x 9  inch (20x20 cm?) pan at 350 for 30 minutes.
When squares are cool, cream together:

1/3 cup butter
1 1/2 cups icing sugar
2 egg yolks
1 tsp vanilla

Place the above mixture on top of the squares, then melt 2 squares of semi-sweet chocolate with 2 Tbsp butter 
and cover the icing.  Set in fridge until chocolate hard. 
Best if kept cool, unless they all disappear at the first serving. :-)

Submitted by Jan.

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