Anzac Day recipe specials

Today is ANZAC Day, a public holiday in Australia and New Zealand held to remember members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who landed at Gallipoli in Turkey during World War I. Dawn marches, the Ode, the "gunfire breakfast", AFL and biscuits, all these things combine on this day.
Biscuits? Yes, biscuits.
ANZAC biscuits
So today is as good a day as any to have a thread on Kiwiana/Australiana home baking, including the ANZAC biscuit.
Not least because I made some yesterday.

Original recipe adapted from Edmonds Cookery Book

1/2 cup plain flour (405 grade)
1/2 cup sugar (feinster Zucker)
2/3 cup dessicated coconut (gemahlene Kokonuss)
3/4 cup rolled oats (you want the Haferflocken, grob, not the Köllnflocken fine stuff)
50g butter
1 tablespoon golden syrup (larger deli departments may stock, alternatively check here)
1/2 baking soda (I use UK bicarbonate of soda bought in an Asian store, Natron should work, but I haven't tried myself)
2 tablespoons boiling water

Mix together flour, sugar, coconut and rolled oats. Melt butter and golden syrup (I do this in the microwave). Dissolve the baking soda in the boiling water and add to the butter and golden syrup, stir into the dry ingredients. Place scant tablespoonsfuls of mixture onto cold greased trays - well-spaced! This stuff spreads. Bake at 180°c for about 15mins or until golden. They will firm up as they cool to give you that crunchy/chewy texture. Makes about 20 and store beautifully.

Also pictured: Afghans and Caramel Slice

Afghans recipe

200g butter, softened
1/2 cup sugar (feinster Zucker)
1 1/4cups plain flour (405 grade)
1/4 cup cocoa (I use Sarotti)
2 cups cornflakes (there is only Kellogg's plus you can't get Weetbix here)
Bit of melted chocolate for the tops (Lindt 70%) and some walnut halves

Cream the butter and the sugar until fluffy, sift flour and cocoa and stir them into the creamed mix. Fold in the cornflakes. Spoon mounds onto a greased/lined baking sheet, well spaced. Bake at 180°c for 10-15mins or until set. Panic because it looks wrong. Leave to cool and be relieved that they firm up when cold. Melt a little chocolate and decorate the biscuits with that and walnut halves. Other versions of this biscuit aren't so herb, but I like that it offsets the sweetness.

Caramel slice recipe

Bill Granger
On the ingredients, same notes as above but also: soft light brown sugar from the Asian store, likewise with the condensed milk (MilchMädchen will NOT work), Dr Oetker real vanilla extract. This probably makes waaaaaaaaaaaay too much base, freeze half for another time. Or eat if out of the bowl uncooked, it's bloody lush.
The base really needs to be pressed together well, think of it like a cold cheesecake digestive/graham cracker base, it will bake together, might look slightly puffy when you take it out, but will shrink back.
If your caramel sticks (and you should keep kids/pets clear, if it splashes, it will burn and it will hurt), if all else fails sieve it through a fine metal sieve. Alternatively, use the Nigella microwave caramel one, no risk of pan damage there.

Can't believe you forgot Mars Bar Slice!!!

Rice bubbles
Mars Bars
Shit-load of butter
Dark chocolate

Too lazy to post a real recipe, but fantastic stuff let me tell you! Had to hunt through every supermarket around to find some rice bubbles (or rice krispies as they're called here), only ever found them at Hit.

I'm a hardcore purist when it comes to rice krispies and chocolate. Two ingredients. No more, no less.
But the AWW bungs in marshmallows as well as mars bars, my teeth hurt looking at that!

Hard to be mars bar slice without mars bars!!! Marshmallows now then, I do believe that they're trying to induce heart attacks, cruel bastards.