Oaty Choc Chip Crunchies

Name: Oaty Choc Chip Crunchies
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 45-50 cookies
Ingredients: 250 g butter or 250 g margarine; 2/3 cup sugar; 2 cups flour; 2 cups coconut; 2 cups oats; 2 tablespoons golden syrup; 2 tablespoons boiling water; 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda; 1/2 cup pecan nuts, chopped; 1 cup chocolate, nibs or 1 cup chocolate chips

Submitted by mamazee 2

"This recipe is as near as a South African 'Woolies' choc chip cookie as can be... It was adapted from 2 other recipes to get the texture and taste to satisfaction"

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Ready In:: 30mins
Ingredients:: 10
Yields:: 45-50 cookies

ingredients

250 g butter or 250 g margarine
²⁄₃ cup sugar
2 cups flour
2 cups coconut
2 cups oats
2 tablespoons golden syrup
2 tablespoons boiling water
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
¹⁄₂ cup pecan nuts, chopped
1 cup chocolate, nibs or 1 cup chocolate chips

directions

Mix syrup, bicarbonate of soda and boiling water in a small bowl.
Beat together butter and sugar till slightly creamed, add flour sugar and coconut to the creamed mixture.
Add choc chips and nuts and fold into dough, you may need to use flour carefully so that the dough does not feel too dry.
Roll dough into sausage shape 2cm in diameter approximately.
Cut into 1 cm slices and place on baking sheet, do not smooth top, leave looking rough, simply push in choc chips if they are loose.
Bake in moderate oven till golden brown.
When all the cookies are baked switch off oven and place all cookies next to each other in once or 2 pans and replace in oven and leave for a couple of hours until crisp.
Keep in airtight tin, and if they soften re-dry in oven.
Eat plain or pipe squiggly line over with melted milky bar chocolate.

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mamazee 2

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I live in Johannesburg South Africa, I am a mother and grandmother...... and I have cooked biiiiiig pots and little ones too. I like to experiment and all too often forget what I have put in - makes it hard to duplicate when that happens!! I work in IT currently and have travelled the spectrum in IT jobs,(am qualified as a specialist but am am in the process of changing my career to alternative healing modalities - my most commonly used cookbook is the South African Indian Delights, I have 4 volumes (each one is updated and added to) My passions.... outdoor life, wildlife, reading,healing My pet peeves - lazy people who do not move!

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