Name: Soetkoekies
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 60 small cookies servings
Cuisine: Bake
Ingredients: 4 cup flour cake; 375 ml sugar or caster sugar; 1 tsp cinnamon ground; 1 tsp ginger ground; 5 ml cloves ground; 1/2 tsp salt; 1 cup butter; 1/4 cup cooking fat or butter; 1 tsp Bicarbonate of soda; 30 ml water luke warm; 1 eggs beaten; cinnamon sugar for dusting

Recipe Disclaimer

Tap for method

Ingredients (12)

4 cup	flour — cake
375 ml	sugar — or caster sugar
1 tsp	cinnamon — ground
1 tsp	ginger — ground
5 ml	cloves — ground
1/2 tsp	salt
1 cup	butter
1/4 cup	cooking fat — or butter
1 tsp	Bicarbonate of soda
30 ml	water — luke warm
1	eggs — beaten
	cinnamon sugar — for dusting

Tap for ingredients

Method:

* Ideally, you should make the dough the day before and let it stand overnight.

Preheat the oven to 200°C.

Sift the flour, salt and spices together. Add the sugar.
Rub in the butter and fat until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
Dissolve the bicarbonate soda in the water and add to the beaten egg.
Add the egg mixture to the flour mixture to make a dough. Knead until thoroughly mixed. * Leave to stand overnight.

Roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface to a thickness of 5 mm.
Cut out rounds with cookie cutter and stamp a message on with cookie stamp.
Place on a greased baking tray and bake for 10 minutes.
Place biscuits on a wire rack, sprinkle immediately with some cinnamon sugar and cool.

Recipe reprinted with permission of Life is a Zoo Biscuit. To see more recipes, please click here.