Stuffed Monkeys South African Style Or Butter Biscuits Recipe at MyDish

Stuffed Monkeys South African Style Or Butter Biscuits

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Method

  • Cream butter and sugar. Add whole eggs and yolks one at a time and then remaining ingredients. (To make butter biscuits - stop at this point, make dough into shapes and bake). For stuffed monkeys, roll out the dough and cut into 4 portions. Cover with the apricot jam, sprinkly the cinnamon and sugar and add raisins and sultanas. Roll up the dough into a sausage, flatten it and cut into biscuit size portions. Bake at gas 5, 375 F 180 C for about 30 - 40 minutes until golden brown.

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    • Intriguing name - why Stuffed Monkeys? Made today,used fine cut marmalade as had no apricot jam, but delighted with the result. Will definitely do again.

      by jisi on Mon Jan 25 2010   reply to this comment

    • I made these for my dad's 91st birthday party and boy did they go down a treat with young and old alike

      by Jacquie on Fri Dec 7 2007   reply to this comment

    Ingredients

    • 1 lb Butter
    • 3 Whole eggs
    • 2 Egg Yolks
    • 8oz Caster Sugar
    • 5 cups Plain Flour
    • 2 teasp Baking Powder
    • ½ cup Cornflour
    • Pinch Salt
    • 1 teasp Vanilla Essence
    •  Smooth Apricot Jam
    •  Raisins
    •  Sultanas
    • Sugar. Cinnamon &

    By Views 5029  Added Mon Sep 24 2007


    This was Granny Essie's absolute best

     

    My mother's mother died when she was 9 and she lived with one of her sisters in Wales and this recipe was the one she remembered her mum making for her - so her greatest delight was making it for her children and then her grandchildren - it has now b Read More

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