Recipe File: Sneak Peak: Biscuits
Lunchbox Cookies
Ingredients:
1 kg self-raising flour
2 cups sugar
1 punnet margarine - 500g (or butter)
1 tin condensed milk
2 cups mixed fruit (or fruit/nut mix, or choc chips, or chopped cherries etc)
Method:
Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add condensed milk and mix. Stir in mixed fruit and then the flour. The dough should be firm, but not really stiff. Roll teaspoonfuls into balls and flatten onto baking paper lined cookies sheets. Bake in a moderate oven about 15 minutes, watching carefully so they don't burn.
Comments: This recipe makes lots of cookies, so is quite economical. You can also substitute sultanas, pie apple, nuts, choc chips etc for the mixed fruit to give more variety. They are also very nice plain, too.
The total cost is approx. $4.60 for 100 cookies - much cheaper than bought biscuits!
UPDATED PRICE: As of January 2024, the total cost to make this recipe is approximately $8.67
You can lower the cost by using MOO Condensed Milk instead of buying it.
Contributed by Cath Armstrong, Cheapskate staff
1 kg self-raising flour
2 cups sugar
1 punnet margarine - 500g (or butter)
1 tin condensed milk
2 cups mixed fruit (or fruit/nut mix, or choc chips, or chopped cherries etc)
Method:
Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add condensed milk and mix. Stir in mixed fruit and then the flour. The dough should be firm, but not really stiff. Roll teaspoonfuls into balls and flatten onto baking paper lined cookies sheets. Bake in a moderate oven about 15 minutes, watching carefully so they don't burn.
Comments: This recipe makes lots of cookies, so is quite economical. You can also substitute sultanas, pie apple, nuts, choc chips etc for the mixed fruit to give more variety. They are also very nice plain, too.
The total cost is approx. $4.60 for 100 cookies - much cheaper than bought biscuits!
UPDATED PRICE: As of January 2024, the total cost to make this recipe is approximately $8.67
You can lower the cost by using MOO Condensed Milk instead of buying it.
Contributed by Cath Armstrong, Cheapskate staff
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