15- Minute Tweegevrietjies recipe | Quick & Easy | WW TASTE

15- Minute Tweegevrietjies recipe | Quick & Easy | WW TASTE

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Discover the recipe for tweegevrietjies, traditional Cape Malay biscuits also known as 'two-tone' tartlets-coconut filling and distinctive pink and brown icing

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Ingredients

  • For the filling:
  • 2 cups fine desiccated coconut
  • ¾ cup sugar
  • 1 pinch ground cinnamon
  • 1 pinch ground cardamom
  • 1 cup water
  • drop of vanilla or almond essence
  • For the pastry:
  • 250 g soft butter
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 – 2 t vanilla essence or extract
  • 3 cups flour
  • 1 t baking powder
  • For the dark chocolate icing:
  • ¾ cup icing sugar
  • 3½ T cocoa
  • 1 t vanilla essence
  • 2 T milk
  • For the pink icing:
  • drop of red or crimson food colouring
  • drop of vanilla essence

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