This recipe comes from a book called "Gifts for the Cookie Jar" by Lia Roessner Wilson.
Makes 4 dozen biscuits.
Ingredients for the Jar:
100g white sugar
100g brown sugar
225g flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon bicarb soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
110g salted peanuts
50g coconut
200g caramel choc chips
Instructions for the Jar:
1. Place the brown sugar in a 1L jar, and press down evenly.
2. Pour white sugar over brown sugar.
3. Sprinkle peanuts over sugar, and press down.
4. In a mixing bowl, stir together the flour, baking powder, bicarb soda and salt. Pour half the mixture over the nuts, pressing down firmly.
5. Pour choc chips over flour in jar, and top with remaining flour.
6. Place coconut on top of the flour and press down firmly. Place lid on jar.
Instructions for Baking:
1egg
125g softened butter
125g peanut butter
Extra sugar
1. Preheat oven to 180C.
2. Empty contents of jar into a large bowl and add egg, butter and peanut butter.
3. Beat on low speed or by hand until mixture comes together.
4. Roll heaped teaspoons of mixture into balls and place 8cm apart on a biscuit tray.
5. Flatten with bottom of a Glass, dipped in sugar.
6. Bake for 10 - 12 minutes until edges are browned.
7. Let biscuits cool on tray for a minute before transferring to a cooling rack.
Instructions for making in a thermie:
1. Place egg, butter and peanut butter into Bowl of Thermie and mix on speed 5 for 10 seconds, or until combined.
2. Add all the other ingredients, and mix on speed 5 for 5 seconds.
3. Use the Knead/ Interval setting until the mixture comes together.
Refer to steps 4-7 above to from and bake biscuits.
These are a very sweet, crisp biscuit. I found them to be overly sweet, but other friends have found them to be delicious.
