After days of heat and humidity, today is a dull rainy day, ideal for spending the day in the kitchen baking.  Now that most of the Christmas fare has been eaten it is time to fill up the tins, so today I made a coconut biscuits, which I tweaked to use up bits and pieces left over.  The biscuits turned out well encough for the tweaked recipe to be added to my book.  

Orange, mixed peel and coconut biscuits

Ingredients:

• 125g butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 cup coconut
• ½ cup mixed peel
• 2 tsp orange zest
• 2 cups self-raising flour
• 2 tablespoons orange juice
• Nut pieces (walnut, pecan, almond)

Method:

1. Beat sugar and butter until light and fluffy
2. Beat in egg well
3. Add coconut, zest and mixed peel
4. Add sifted flour and orange juice
5. Mix into a dough and divide into four pieces
6. Divide each quarter into twelve and roll into small balls
7. Place on baking paper on biscuit trays
8. Put a piece of nut on the top of the biscuit
9. Bake at 180^oC for 12 minutes or until brown