Nancy's Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies

While we were still at Centrepoint, we house-sat for the Dohertys for a week, and I found this recipe in one of Nancy's cookery books, The Old-Fashioned New Zealand Cookbook. I found the original mix a little wet to handle so in subsequent versions I added extra jumbo oatflakes for a chewier version. They have been a staple tinfiller ever since.

You will need

250g Softened Butter
1.5 cups Sugar
2 cups Desiccated Coconut
1.5 cups Flour
2 generous tablespoons Cocoa - more if you're a chocoholic
3 #7 size Eggs
3 handfuls Chopped Nuts (I've used peanuts, brazils, hazels and almonds, for a completely different result each time, and each time, excellent. Sultanas - not so good.)
1/2 teaspoon Salt
3/4 teaspoon Vanilla Essence
1/2 teaspoon Rum Essence or Almond Essence
1-2 cups Jumbo Rolled Oats .

1. Mix all ingredients, except coarse rolled oats, together, more or less in order specified.

2. Add rolled oats and mix well until mixture can be easily formed into balls about 3 cm across.

3. Distribute across a lightly greased oven tray. Flatten each one with a fork to about 1 cm thickness.

4. Bake at 180C for about fifteen to twenty minutes or thereabouts, depending on size of biscuits, until bases of biscuits begin to brown. (Slip a spatula underneath and peek.)

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