Cape Malay Cooking with Fatima Sydow
Ingredients
- Dry ingredients
- 2 cups of sugar
- 2 cups of cake flour
- 2 tsp of baking powder
- 1½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ cup of cocoa powder
Wet ingredients
- 2 tsps of granulated coffee stirred into a cup of hot water
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup of milk
- ½ cup of oil
- 2 tsp vanilla essence
Method
Preheat oven to 180°C.
In a large bowl, sift together all the dry ingredients.
Add the milk to the coffee mixture and stir.
Add all the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients, whisk until well combined, about 1 minute.
Place cupcake holders into muffin pans, pour just over half level of cake batter.
Bake for 12-15 minutes.
Remove from the oven and allow to cool in the pan for 10 minutes.
Put cupcakes on a wire rack, cool completely.
To turn it into a Chocolate Snowball you will need:
250g of fine apricot or mixed fruit jam stirred into a cup of hot water until dissolved.
Add half a cup of cold water.
In a separate bowl, put 2 cups of fine desiccated coconut, and half a cup of caramel in another small bowl.
And then, in a separate bowl, whip together 250ml of fresh cream with 2 tablespoons of caster sugar or icing sugar and a teaspoon of vanilla essence until stiff peaks form.
Dunk the cupcakes into the jam syrup and then place into the coconut and cover cupcake with the coconut, repeat this process with all the cakes.
Next cut the coconut covered cupcakes in half and on the bottom half spoon a teaspoon of caramel and pipe some of the whipped vanilla cream.
Replace the top part of cupcake.