My friend Claire made these for me and they were totally delicious so I asked her for the recipe, which it turns out is really quick and easy.

Ingredients:

• 50g butter, melted
• ½ cup sugar
• ½ tsp almond essence (alternatively vanilla)
• 1 egg
• 2 cups dessicated coconut
• 15 glace cherries or 30 almonds

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 180°C and grease a baking tray (spray is fine).
2. Melt butter and place in a food processor with sugar, essence, egg and coconut.
3. Mix well.
4. Spoon onto baking tray and push an almond or half a cherry onto each. No need to make perfect balls, but the blobs will more or less retain their shape and won't increase much.
5. Bake for 12-15 minutes or until the bottom edges are golden brown and rough pieces on top are colouring slightly. Be careful, they burn easily!
6. Cool on a wire rack and store in an airtight jar.

Makes 30 biscuits.

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