Oaty Choc Chip Crunchies

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

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

Recipe

• 1 mix syrup, bicarbonate of soda and boiling water in a small bowl.
• 2 beat together butter and sugar till slightly creamed, add flour sugar and coconut to the creamed mixture.
• 3 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.
• 4 roll dough into sausage shape 2cm in diameter approximately.
• 5 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.
• 6 bake in moderate oven till golden brown.
• 7 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.
• 8 keep in airtight tin, and if they soften re-dry in oven.
• 9 eat plain or pipe squiggly line over with melted milky bar chocolate.