Using No Egg (Egg Replacer)

The instructions on the box tell you to use water and powder as replacement for the egg. However I have found that when baking cakes, they turn out very crumbly when you use this combination. If you add vegetable oil instead of water, it seems to bind the mixture a lot better and prevent the crumbling.

Cheers,
Mary Wong

PS. The No Egg (Egg Replacer) is available at Coles and Woolworths in the health and specialty food section.

Coconut Cake

• 2 cups self raising flour
• 2 cups coconut
• 1 ½ cups caster cugar
• 1 ½ cups milk

Preheat the oven to 180 ° C.

Whisk all ingredients together.

Pour into a greased and lined round cake pan.

Bake for 40 - 45 minutes.

Date (or Raisin/Sultana) Slice

• 1 cup self raising flour
• 1 cup chopped dates (or other fruit)
• 2 tablespoons golden syrup
• 1 cup coconut
• ½ cup sugar
• 125g butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Preheat oven to 180 ° C.

Mix all dry ingredients.

Melt the butter and golden syrup together.

Add butter and golden syrup to dry ingredients along with the vanilla and combine well.

Press into a lightly greased small baking tray. Bake for 10 – 15 minutes.

Cool and top with lemon or vanilla icing if desired.

Granny’s Anzac Recipe by Ben Thorp Country South Australia

• 1 cup plain flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup rolled oats
• 1 cup coconut
• 4 big spoonfuls (soup size) golden syrup
• 2 and a bit Tablespoons hot water
• 1 teaspoon bicarb soda
• Pinch salt
• 125g butter

Preheat oven 170 ° C.

Put dry ingredients flour, sugar, oats, coconut in a bowl.

Melt butter and golden syrup in pan and bring lightly to boil.

Dissolve bicarb soda into the hot water and tip into hot syrup (it will fizz up).

Mix the syrup into the dry ingredients.

Drop spoonfuls onto baking tray and cook in oven.

The mixture should be a "little wet" so it spreads a little on the tray – can add more syrup or hot water if its not wet enough.

Bake for 15-20 min.

Shape Bickies

• 175g plain flour
• 110g soft butter
• 50g caster sugar

Mix ingredients until they come together, roll out till 5mm thick, cut into shapes and transfer to a lined baking tray.

Bake at 180° C for 5 - 10 minutes.

Muesli Squares

• 125 g Butter
• 1/3 cup (75g) firmly packed brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons honey
• 1 cup (90g) rolled oats
• 1/2 cup (45g) desiccated coconut
• 1/2 cup (80g) finely chopped dried apricots
• 1/2 cup (75g) finely chopped dried apple
• 1/2 cup (75g) self-raising flour

Preheat reheat oven to 180 ° C. Grease and line 20cm x 30cm lamington pan.

Stir butter, sugar and honey in a large saucepan over medium heat, without boiling, until sugar dissolves. Remove from heat, stir in remaining ingredients. Press mixture into pan.

Bake about 20 minutes or until golden brown. Cool in pan; cut into squares to serve.