Grab a pen. Write this on your shopping list: one tin of condensed milk. This is one recipe that’s great for pulling out when you realise you’ve invited the whole street over and the biscuit tin is empty, or if you like to make in bulk and freeze. Make the basic biscuit mix and then let the kids get creative in making a whole host of different flavours {I’ll share my favourites below}.
Ingredients
500g butter
1/2 cup caster sugar
1 tin of condensed milk {around 400g}
5 cups self-raising flour
Method
♥ Preheat oven to 180 degrees celcius. Line 4 baking trays.
♥ In a HUGE bowl cream the butter, sugar and condensed milk with electric beaters.
♥ Add self-raising flour. Mix well using a wooden spoon.
♥ Either just throw in a bag of choc-chips and make choc-chip biscuits, or divide the mix up into however many flavours you’d like to make {see below for flavour ideas} and get creative.
♥ Roll tablespoons of mixture into balls and place on trays, flatten slightly.
♥ Bake for 14 minutes or until golden. Place on cake racks after cooling slightly.
It’s fun to divide the mix up into 4 or 5 batches and try a few different flavours, such as these:
♥ Jam Drops: Place a thumbprint into the rolled cookies and then drop a teaspoon of your favourite jam
♥ Lolly cookies: Top the biscuits with your favourite lolly
♥ Favourites: Top each biscuit with your favourite chocolate from the Cadbury favourites box of chocolates. Simply cut each chocolate in half and place on top.
♥ Snickerdoodles: Mix 2 tablespoons of sugar and 1 teaspoon of cinnamon. Roll each ball into the sugar mix to coat and then flatten slightly on the tray.
♥ Cornflake cookies: Add cornflakes and sultanas and mix!
♥ Choc-nuts: Chop some peanuts and add with some choc-chips for a yummy biscuit.
Lacey loved making these biscuits and I’m sure your kids will too. x
Chantelle! This is the BEST idea! Thanks so much for sharing, I can't wait to get baking now! Xx
5 cups of sr flour! Wow, that is a lot of biscuits. I'm going to check the pantry now for a tin of sweetened condensed milk and if I find one I think this will be our baking session for the week. gxo
It scares me to think that I could probably eat my way through all 80 cookies with no trouble whatsoever. They look amazing… and so cheap!! xxx
Yep that's a great recipe, I use it all the time with my kids- egg free so good for allergies. I got the recipe from the Simple Savings website.
My fav version is to add cocoa with cut up jersey caramels. Yum! 🙂
This is terrific. I've got all the ingredients and I'm making a batch as soon as I get home from work!! x
oh yummo….thanks xx
I LOVE any recipe with condensed milk in it, this one sounds fab and so versatile! I hope I can buy it in Hong Kong, where we are moving to next month. Otherwise, my suitcase will be full of tins of condensed milk.
Excellent. I've been on a baking binge lately, these sound great.
Yummy. I just discovered a tin of Sweetened condensed milk in the cupboard. I think this might be a project for the weekend.
My girlfriend makes these all the time … she has 6 kids so lots of things are made in bulk. She simply calls them Condensed Milk biscuits and they're fabulous!
I have to buy two tins… one for the biscuits and one for me to open and sit on the couch with, spooning directly into my mouth. YUM.
Hi, Just came to your blog via a link from Georgie at SJW. These biscuits sound great and I'll be trying them out once I get my hands on some condensed milk! Thank you.
x
Yummo!
Georgie at SJW has been spreading the word and I've just ducked out to pick up the ingredients that I didn't already have & will bake them in time to greet everyone after school.
Thank you for sharing this treat – now the challenge is to limit how many I eat!
xx Felicity
wow im definitely trying this!! Thanks!
Oooo fabulous, you are just like Cookie Man… except Cookie woMAN! Thanks Chantelle, big fans of cookies around here and LOVE new recipes xo
Anything with condensed milk wins my heart every time! The hard part for me is actually getting it into the biscuit mix and not just eat it all out of the tin. Cant wait to make these – YUMMO!!
I have made these biscuits too. I made 1/2 with cocoa in them and made circles of different sizes and layered them up so they looked like bears. Really cute!
I made a great slice using condensed milk and weetbix – it is delicious. It is like caramel slice, but makes over 50 pieces so really economical too!
If you would like the recipe I can send you the link to the cooking blog I contribute to. I don't want to be daggy and leave the address here…. Only if peeps are interested…
We made these this morning and oh my there's alot of biscuits!! Good thing we have a busy long weekend planned with lots of visits to friends, play dates etc etc They will all be gone before I get to enjoy one I'm sure!!
Great recipe Telle!!
I might have a stomach ache from eating the dough and the biscuits all day! I don't think I'll have dinner… (Good recipe though!)
I saw this on the Planning with Kids blog recently too and loved it. I've made it with mini m&m's and I've found that the biscuits freeze really well too. It makes for very convenient treats on lunch boxes 🙂
I made these yesterday with my 13 year old daughter and a friend's little girl. What an absolute gem of a recipe!!
The boy in the house managed to devour waaaaay too many already of them so another batch will be on the cards for today too.
I made the base recipe then split the mix – did some plain, some with freckles on the top (my personal fav!), white choc chips, milk choc chips and jam drops.
Did you find this recipe on the Simple Savings website? I saw one almost exactly the same there and tried it out too.
Good on you for posting this recipe! A good, cheap way to get some snacks around the house 🙂
omy my lord..this looks delish.. would it taste that to half the recipe?
We are making these now for my daughters party! Would love the lady above to post her weetbix recipe
Re: Weetbix Slice….
A friend and I have started a little blog called 'Friends who cook'. People are always saying, 'Oohh, how did you make THAT?” so we thought we would put these recipes on a blog rather than just typing them up etc….
Find the recipe @ http://friendswhocook.blogspot.com/2011/06/condensed-milk-weetbix-slice.html
Oh – I thought that I posted the web address of where to find the weetbix slice recipe!! Sorry – Here it is ….
http://friendswhocook.blogspot.com/2011/06/condensed-milk-weetbix-slice.html
This is a blog a friend and I set up, we post recipes that people have asked us for….
Have been making using this recipe for awhile and it’s great to freeze either in balls ready to go or logs. I used Easter eggs that I didn’t want hanging around, melted some an left some just broken up. It’s easily a months worth of biscuits 🙂
Oh my gosh – I made these the other day, and was about to blog the same thing! Great minds…. Is this not the best recipe EVER!
i have all that stuff in my pantry!!! i love coming across a recipe and having all the ingredients stitting there!