South African Snowballs Recipes

SOUTH AFRICAN SNOWBALLS

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugar till fluffly. Beat in cream. Add flour and knead to make soft dough.
• Divide dough into 24 balls. Flatten each ball slightly.
• Place 12 each on cookie sheets.
• Bake in oven preheated at 180 degrees celcius for 15 minutes ortill edges are brown.
• Beat jam with a fork. Add boiling water and colouring and whisk till smooth.
• Sandwich two cooled cakes with a bit of jam/water syrup.
• Then dip the two sanwiched cakes in the syrup.
• Roll in coconut and leave uncovered for a bit to dry.

SNOWBALLS RECIPE

Steps:

• Add sugar and water to a saucepan and bring to a boil. Simmer until syrup thickens a little. The syrup shouldn't be too thick as you want it to penetrate into the cakes.
• Keep the syrup warm on the stove-top, at the lowest setting.
• Preheat the oven to 180°C.
• Add a few drops of food colouring to the coconut and set aside.
• Cream the butter until light and fluffy.
• Gradually add the sugar and beat until creamy. Mix in the vanilla essence.
• Add the eggs, one at a time and continue beating until well combined. Add a few drops of food colouring.
• Add the flour and milk. Beat into a thick batter.
• Line cookie sheets with parchment paper. Fill a piping bag with the batter. Cut a hole at the tip, depending on how big you prefer your snowballs. Pipe the batter into the rounds, cut with a scissor and use a little water to smooth the tops. Bear in mind that the batter will spread whilst baking.
• Bake at 180°C for 8 minutes or until slightly golden brown on the edges.
• Cool on a cooling rack.
• Heat the apricot jam in the microwave for 20 seconds.
• Sandwich the cakes with apricot jam. Dip in syrup and roll in coconut.
• If you prefer, you can make icing with icing sugar mixed with milk or warm water and sandwich the cakes with that instead of the jam. You can use ½ cup icing sugar and 2 tablespoons of warm water or milk.
• If you don't have a piping bag you can use a zip-lock bag with the corner cut off. If the syrup thickens too much, you can add water.
• If you want a more crumbly, drier texture for the snowballs you can omit the milk.