Condensed Milk Biscuits recipe

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01/23/2012

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Here is a recipe for a traditional South African favorite - Condensed milk cookies otherwise known as Kondensmelk koekies.

Ingredients

225 gram butter
2/3 cup (140 gram) sugar
1 egg
100 gram condensed milk (1/4 of a 397 gram tin)
1 teaspoon (5 ml) golden syrup
1/2 teaspoon (2 ml) caramel or vanilla essence
3 cups (375 gram) flour
3/4 teaspoon (4 ml) baking soda
1/2 teaspoon (2 ml) cream of tartar
pinch of salt

Directions

Cream butter and sugar together until soft and light.

Beat in the egg and mix well.

Add the condensed milk, golden syrup and caramel or vanilla essence and mix thoroughly.
Sift the flour, baking soda, cream of tartar and salt over the creamed mixture and combine well into dough. Knead lightly if necessary.

Pre-heat your oven to 170C

Form biscuits with a cookie press or a meat grinder with a cookie attachment. If you're using a meat grinder, make each biscuits about 5 cm long. If you don't have either, roll dough into little nut-sized balls and flatten them with a fork.

Optional: Decorate the biscuits with little round chocolate chip pieces, as shown in the photo.

Bake at a moderate heat for about 10 to 15 minutes. The biscuits will be straw coloured when they are done.
Remove from oven.

Use an egg lifter to loosen each biscuit from the baking trays while they are still warm, but leave them on the trays to cool down.

Store them in an airtight container.

Servings

Yields about 6 dozen

This recipe and photo is from the Rainbow Cooking website, where you will find a collection of mostly South African recipes, both traditional and modern.

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