SOETKOEKIES
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 180°C
- Cream butter, sugar and the together.
- Sift together cake flour, spices and salt.
- Stir through the orange rind
- Mix sifted ingredients with butter mixture until a fairly soft dough is formed.
- Cover and allow to rest for at least a half an hour.
- Preheat oven to 180°C. Lightly grease baking trays or use a non-stick spray.
- Roll the dough out
- Roll out dough thinly between two sheets of glad wrap or baking paper until it is about 3 mm thick.
- Cut out circles, 4 to 5cm in diameter, using a cookie cutter. I used a star cookie cutter
- Place dough shapes slightly apart on baking sheets.
- Bake biscuits for 10 to 12 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from oven, allow to cool slightly and place on a wire rack to cool completely.
- Ice if desired and store in an airtight container.
- Sift one cup of icing sugar into a bowl.
- Slowly add 1 tbsp of milk, and a drop or two of food colouring if desired, and mix through.
- If the icing is too thick, add more milk, 1 tsp at a time, until the desired consistency is achieved.
TRADITIONAL SOETKOEKIES RECIPE
Steps:
- Cream the butter with an electric mixer then the add icing sugar and beat until light and fluffy.
- Add in the condensed milk and vanilla and mix until well combined. Add egg and beat till smooth.
- Sift the flour, corn flour and baking powder into mixture and stir until a soft dough is formed.
- Wrap the dough in cling wrap and leave in the fridge for at least 2 hours OR until the dough is chilled.
- Preheat the oven to 170°C.
- Roll out the dough to 5 mm thickness and cut the biscuits to the desired shape and bake in the preheated oven for 15 minutes.
- Once cooled, dust with castor sugar and enjoy!
Nutrition Facts :
OLD-FASHIONED SOETKOEKIES RECIPE
Steps:
- Cream butter, sugar and the five eggs together. Sift together cake flour, baking powder, nutmeg and salt. Mix sifted ingredients with butter mixture until a fairly soft dough is formed.
- Cover and allow to rest for half an hour.
- Preheat oven to 200°C. Lightly grease baking trays or use a non-stick spray.
- Roll out dough thinly on a surface dusted with flour. Cut out circles, 4 to 5cm in diameter, using a cookie cutter.
- Place dough circles slightly apart on baking sheets. Mix beaten egg and milk, and lightly paint over biscuits. Sprinkle a little sugar in the centre of each biscuit for decoration.
- Bake biscuits for 8 to 10 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from oven, allow to cool slightly and place on a wire rack to cool completely.
- Store in an airtight container.
Nutrition Facts :
SOETKOEKIES RECIPE
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 200°C.
- In a large bowl using electric beaters, beat the butter with sugar and eggs until light and fluffy - about 5 minutes.
- In another large bowl, sieve the flour, baking powder, spices and salt together.
- Add the butter mixture to the dry ingredients, and mix to form a soft dough.
- On a well-floured surface, roll out small batches of dough at a time, sprinkling more flour on top of the dough if necessary (the dough can be quite soft and sticky). The thickness should be about 5 mm.
- Press out circles with a cookie cutter, then arrange on a lined/greased baking tray, with at least 2 cm of space between each cookie.
- Bake for 8 - 10 minutes until pale and slightly golden (not too dark), remove from oven and cool on wire racks.
- Store in an airtight container - it keeps well for several weeks.
Nutrition Facts :
SOETKOEKIES ( SPICY WINE COOKIES)
Yum! Spices, sugar & wine all together in a cookie. Soetkoekies are of Dutch origin and have been a favourite South African biscuit-tin filler for many years. Posted for ZWT 2006 - South African region. From: The Cookie Tin
Provided by SusieQusie
Categories Dessert
Time 35m
Yield 36 cookies
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly spray or grease a cookie sheet.
- Sift together the flour, baking soda, cream of tartar, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, ground cloves, brown sugar, and almonds in a large bowl.
- Add the butter and cut into the flour mixture.
- Add the beaten eggs and red wine and mix dough together until it can be formed into a ball.
- Roll dough into walnut-sized balls and place on cookie sheets about 2" apart.
- Brush each cookie gently with the egg white.
- Bake for 12-15 minutes - until golden brown. Remove to a rack to cool completely.
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