Delicious Crunchies

A very easy recipe for a delicious treat

Preheat the oven to 150ºC

1¼  cups cake flour
1¼ cups oats
1¼ cups desiccated coconut
1 cup brown sugar
5 tsp golden syrup or honey
½ cup margarine
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
4 TSP water
¼ tsp cinnamon

Mix the dry ingredients in a large bowl.
Melt the margarine together with the golden syrup. Mix the bicarb with the water and add to the melted butter mixture.
Add the melted mixture to the dry ingredients and mix well.
Press the mixture into a 20cm by 20cm tin.
Bake for 20 minutes, until golden brown in colour. Remove the crunchies, cut into the square sizes you want and put back into the warm oven for a couple of minutes to dry out(leave the door open with the oven off)

Once cool remove from tin and store in airtight container.

Oatcake recipe

I'm crazy about these. No wheat, no sugar, low GI. Great with anything you would normally eat on a biscuit.

Oatcakes

250g oats
Pinch of salt
¼ t bicarb
1T butter, melted
75-200ml hot water from a recently boiled kettle
1 baking sheet
8cm biscuit cutter (round)

Preheat stove to 200˚C
Put the oats in a bowl add salt and bicarb.
Make a well, pour in the butter and stirring with a wooden spoon, mix with enough water, until a stiff dough. (Oats may need as much as 200 mls. Oatmeal may need less.)

Knead the dough for a while to make it come smoothly together. Roll out thinly. Cut into rounds and bake on an un-greased baking sheet for 12 – 15 minutes, or until the oatcakes are turning golden brown and the oatcakes themselves are firm. Remove to cool on a wire rack.

Makes 15 - 20