Fawzia’s Soetkoekies

Name: Fawzia’s Soetkoekies
Yield: Makes 80–100
Ingredients: peanut halves for decoration; 5 ml bicarbonate of soda; red bolus for colouring; 100 g ground almonds (optional); 500 g cake flour; 500 ml yellow or brown sugar; 250 g butter; 100 ml sunflower oil; 10 ml ground mixed spice; 1 egg, lightly beaten; 5 ml ground cloves; 5 ml ground ginger

Preparation info

Makes
80–100

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Cape Malay Illustrated Cookbook

By Faldela Williams

Published 2012

About

In the past, sheeptail fat would have been used. Red bolus is a ferri-oxide mixture obtainable from pharmacies.

Ingredients

250 g butter
100 ml sunflower oil
500 ml

Vegetarian
Cookies

Method

Cream butter until soft. Stir in oil until well-blended. Add sugar and stir until light and fluffy. Stir in cloves, ginger and mixed spice, then beat in egg. Stir in ground almonds, if using. Sift flour and bicarbonate of soda, and stir into mixture to make a fairly stiff dough.

Mix red bolus with one-third of the dough, until well blended. Roll out remaining two-thirds on a lightly flo