Bola recipe

Ingredients

• 2 ½ tsp
• dry, active yeast
• 150 g
• caster sugar
• 250 ml
• water, lukewarm
• 450 g
• plain flour
• ¼ tsp
• salt
• 225 g
• butter, at room temperature
• 2 medium
• eggs, beaten
• 200 g
• mixed peel, chopped
• balls preserved ginger, drained but reserve syrup
• 2 tbsp
• soft brown sugar
• 2 tsp
• ground cinnamon
• ground almonds
• 4 tbsp
• water or use 3 tbsp water plus 1 tbsp orange flower water
• ‘hundreds and thousands’ aka sugar sprinkles, for decoration