Monte Carlos - Real Recipes from Mums

These Monte Carlos are an old fashioned favourite!

Ingredients (makes 25 Complete biscuits)

185 gram Butter, softened
1/2 cup Brown sugar, firmly packed
1 Egg
1 tsp Vanilla
1 1/4 cups Self-raising flour, sifted
3/4 cup Plain flour, sifted
1/2 cup Coconut
Filling:
Raspberry or other jam
60 gram Butter, softened
3/4 cup Icing sugar
1/2 tsp Vanilla
2 tsp Milk

Method

Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg and vanilla, beat well. Add sifted dry ingredients and coconut, mix well.
Rolls teaspoons of mixture into balls and then flatten onto greased trays. Rough up surface with the back of a fork. Bake on 180 degrees for 10-15 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.
Filling: cream butter and sifted icing sugar until light and fluffy. Add vanilla and gradually add milk, beating well. Put a teaspoon of jam and filling on half the biscuits. Top with remaining half of biscuits and press together lightly.

Notes

Make sure the biscuits are fairly flat before baking as they will rise. If you are a novice baker, allow approximately 10 minutes more to roll your dough and flatten.

130 Comments

- - ella12 said
  - 10 Jan 2018
    12:28 pm
Sounds lovely, perfect with a cuppa at morning tea.

- - Stef said
  - 26 Feb 2017
    1:28 am
Why am I looking at these, late at night???!! I’m going to have cravings all night long!! they look so good!!

- - coastalkaryn said
  - 28 Jan 2017
    11:32 am
these look better than the bought ones, look really tasty

- - hopefullyheidi said
  - 27 Nov 2016
    9:37 am
These are one of my all time favourite biscuits to buy from the supermarket. I can only imagine that these are nicer again.

- - serotonin said
  - 01 Nov 2016
    7:04 pm
These look better than the real thing!! Yum!

- - mom19782016 said
  - 27 Oct 2016
    11:40 am
Fab idea, I’ve never thought to make them myself.

- - Melissa89 said
  - 31 Jul 2016
    12:12 am
Yum!

- - mom172741 said
  - 15 Jun 2016
    7:44 pm
These look delicious. I love monte carlos

- - mom111362 said
  - 24 May 2016
    12:13 am
omg my favourite biscuit, If I had a mixer id make these

- - serotonin said
  - 30 Apr 2016
    11:49 pm
Ooh never had home made Monte Carlos before! will have to try these. YuM!

- - mom113991 said
  - 29 Apr 2016
    12:11 am
these look great…thanks for sharing

- - Naomi said
  - 26 Apr 2016
    11:01 pm
These look like my grandmas melting moments which were the best!

- - june11 said
  - 18 Feb 2016
    7:52 pm
Monte Carlo may be a legally registered name. I’m a bit concerned whether or not other people are allowed to publish recipes with the same name. You will notice products with similar ingredients but different manufacturers have slightly different names.

- - robyn_smithwick said
  - 10 Feb 2016
    9:17 pm
These look so much nicer than the Arnott’s variety.

- - rachelvk said
  - 31 Jan 2016
    9:50 am
Yum. A very clever recipe to recreate a favourite.

- - coastalkaryn said
  - 01 Dec 2015
    7:14 pm
oh jeepers you are a good cook!

- - mom160421 said
  - 22 Nov 2015
    3:43 pm
I love Monte Carlos and I will definitely be giving this recipe a try. Thanks for sharing.

- - mom94378 said
  - 02 Nov 2015
    3:24 pm
This bickie has stood the test of time, a true classic

- - meedee said
  - 25 Oct 2015
    3:43 pm
Oh gosh its been so many years since ive had one of these yummy things. *drool*

- - Melanie said
  - 26 Sep 2015
    1:13 pm
Looks delicious! Will definitely try this. Thanks.