Monte Carlos

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

- - sambii said
  - 24 Sep 2014
    12:37 pm
My all-time favourite biscuits– kill me now and I will die happy!!!!

- - LGuerra29 said
  - 24 Sep 2014
    12:35 pm
Cant wait to make these…

- - rovermum said
  - 24 Sep 2014
    12:34 pm
Ooh yum! I have never seen a home-made version of these. Certainly beats the packet option.

- - Chewly said
  - 24 Sep 2014
    12:34 pm
Wow, yes going to try these. Might be a silly question but I don’t really do sweets – by vanilla does it mean vanilla essence? Or some other form of vanilla?
- mom57522 replied
  
  24 Sep 2014 , 2:35 pm
  Vanilla essence 🙂
- - mom63000 said
  - 24 Sep 2014
    10:27 am
Yumm gonna try these

- - krissy333 said
  - 22 Sep 2014
    7:03 pm
wow these look super yum!!

- - rachaelchara said
  - 22 Sep 2014
    1:14 pm
Looks delicious, I love home made biscuits.

- - mom56842 said
  - 22 Sep 2014
    11:51 am
They look so much better than the store bought ones 🙂

- - mom85280 said
  - 22 Sep 2014
    7:59 am
Thanks for the Monte Carlos recipe. The old recipes are always better than the new recipes. They have ingredients which are already in my pantry and they are simple to make. The bad side is that these biscuits don’t last long. Forget the jam filling – I’m lucky to have one left when they have cooled down.

- - nettiej said
  - 21 Sep 2014
    9:42 pm
What a great idea! I love these!

- - chrissyt said
  - 21 Sep 2014
    9:21 pm
I have such fond memories of these biscuits, but since being diagnosed with coelaic’s disease 5 years ago I have not been able to eat them. When I saw this recipe i was very excited!! I adapted this recipe to use gluten free products and they were delicious.
- mom57522 replied
  
  22 Sep 2014 , 9:54 pm
  That’s fantastic! I’m so happy they turned out well for you.
- - Peace.Love.Empathy. said
  - 21 Sep 2014
    8:37 pm
These look absolutely delicious. I can’t wait to try them!! YUM!! Thanks so much for sharing.

- - cloverstorm said
  - 21 Sep 2014
    5:55 pm
I can’t see these lasting long at my house, too tempting.

- - maureen3 said
  - 21 Sep 2014
    4:44 pm
So yummy thanks for sharing

- - mom93821 said
  - 21 Sep 2014
    6:32 am
Look delicious! Another recipe for the baking list.

- - curlytops said
  - 20 Sep 2014
    8:47 pm
these look really very tasty!

- - storm7 said
  - 20 Sep 2014
    1:23 pm
Love home made cookies….. will try these..

- - damish70 said
  - 19 Sep 2014
    11:56 pm
Seriously just way too delicious!

- - maureen3 said
  - 19 Sep 2014
    8:43 pm
This delightful treat would just melt in the mouth
- mom57522 replied
  
  19 Sep 2014 , 10:36 pm
  They do! I find it hard to stop at one!
- - sisterhood27 said
  - 19 Sep 2014
    2:25 pm
They look so good and so shortbready