Thursday, January 19, 2012

Butternut Snap Cookies Recipe

Butternut snap cookies
Butternut snap cookies were invented in Australia, I think. Unlike ANZAC Cookies and pavlova whose origin is disputed since both New Zealand and Australia claim to have invented it, the case for butternuts is clearer since New Zealand is not claiming it invented these cookies. 

Butternut snap cookies get their name from butter and coconut. They are similar to ANZAC Cookies except butternuts contain eggs and don’t contain rolled oats. They are lighter. Even though it is called butternut, very little butter is used but the butter taste is present for sure. Its almost a diet version of   ANZAC Cookies!

The recipe requires cream of tartar and bicarbonate of soda. A substitute for cream of tartar is lemon juice. However I didn't want to use lemon and used baking powder instead of cream of tartar and bicarbonate of soda. It worked fine. 

Recipe adopted from Best Recipes.
Butternut snap cookies

Ingredients
2 tablespoons butter
¾ cup sugar (original recipe suggests 1 cup)
1 egg
½ teaspoon cream of tartar
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
Pinch salt
1½ cups flour, sifted
½ teaspoon vanilla essence
1 cup desiccated coconut
2 tablespoons golden syrup
1 tablespoon milk

Directions
  1. Preheat oven to 360°F / 180°C
  2. Cream together all the wet ingredients and sugar
  3. In a separate bowl mix together the rest of the ingredients
  4. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix until incorporated
  5. Place small balls on a baking tray, flatten and bake until golden brown and delicious, about 10- 12 minutes.

30 comments:

  1. Fabulous! And I'm imagining peanut butter butternut cookie sandwiches right now ;)

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  2. Yum these cookies sound like a delicious indulgence!

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  3. Yummy! These cookies sound sooo good! I have been away from the blogosphere for a while now, and I am glad to be back visiting some of my favorite sites :) I love ANZAC cookies, and I am sure I would love these too... They look good! Thanks for sharing :)

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  4. WTF@#$ CAN SOME COMPETENT PERSON TELL ME HOW MUCH BAKING POWDER TO USE INSTEAD OF TAR TAR AND BICARB FFSAKE U PUT IN THE PARAGRAPH YOU USED IT NOT HOW MUCH VERY FRUSTRATED CAUSE GOOGLING IT IS BRINGING ME HERE DOH

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    1. 1 teaspoon should be fine. Search for substitute cream of tartar on the internet, to understand better

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    2. OMG Relax and have a cookie!!!

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  5. it's called an anzac 'biscuit' not a god damn anzac cookie- keep at least one thing Australian, please

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    1. Its butternut, not ANZAC which is a bit different. See http://easilygoodeats.blogspot.com/2010/12/anzac-cookies.html

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  6. I couldn't agree more. We live in Australia and a biscuit will always be a biscuit.

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    1. I understand. When I lived in NZ, I called it biscuit. Now it feels weird calling it biscuit. But whatever word we use we are referring to the same delicious concoction. Hopefully in future the world will unite and agree on a common term - whether cookies or biscuits.

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  7. Butternut cookie is fine but an ANZAC is a biscuit. It was created when the world was united to fight a war. It's historical and cultural significance should not be diminished by an incorrect name

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  8. roll into small balls. they spread really wide and flat. yummy BISCUITS..

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  9. I have tried your recipe yesterday and it was Amazing thank you. I will try your other recipes as well and see how it goes.

    I these cookies

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  10. Yeah, it's biscuit. This is the sort of biscuit you would have with tea, and it's tea and BISCUITS not tea and COOKIES.
    To me, "cookies" means "breasts" and always has when I hear someone use it lol.

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    1. Point taken:) Biscuits with tea. Cookies with milk. I didn't know cookies also meant breast.

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  11. Biscuits to American and some other cultures are what we (aus,nz) would call a scone

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  12. Biscuits to American and some other cultures are what we (aus,nz) would call a scone

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  13. They are Anzac BISCUITS. That is what the Anzacs called them so please call them what they are, biscuits, out of respect for those whom they were named after. Why change the original name? If it ain't broke don't fix it. Surely Australians are entitled to keep some originality, our history, our identity without it being twisted, tapered with or distorted.

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    1. Anzac biscuits contain rolled oats and no eggs and are slightly thicker biscuits because of the rolled oats. Arnotts Butternut biscuits, also contain rolled oats but only 14% and use baking powder instead of bicarb of soda. I agree they are both very similar.

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  14. I'm Australian and this recipe is no good. It's nothing like a butternut should be. More sugar is needed and less coconut.

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  15. go to another site and fight your war as to whether it is a cookie are a biscuit. let us that are interested in the recipe alone

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  23. A great traditional Butternut biscuit recipe from 1942, only difference is less sugar and salt. Its amazing how good recipes will stay for a long, long time

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