Koeksisters cake is a dish in South Africa that is very popular and popular not only in this country but also around the world. Koeksisters cake like donuts but are shaped twisted or flat, like a flake of golden ripe barley. And especially, this cake is covered with a layer of sweet safflower, creating a very attractive and strange taste. So why don't you taste it and taste it? To enjoy this dish is also very simple, you do not need to go to South Africa or other expensive stores. You just need to follow the baking instructions right below to complete the Koeksisters cake in the best way.
Ingredients for making a dish of Koeksisters for 4-6 people (about 30 cakes):
The cake Koeksisters:
- 375g Tai Ky flour flour
- 7g baking powder
- 4.5g cinnamon powder
- 2g clove powder
- 2g nutmeg powder
- ½ teaspoon of pepper
- 1 butter stick
- 4 eggs
- Vegetable oil for frying
- Tools: candle paper, flour rolling stick, egg whisk, flour mixer.
The syrup part:
- 680g in diameter
- 500ml of water
- 3.5g cinnamon powder
How to make a dish of Koeksisters for 4-6 people:
Step 1: Preliminary processing of ingredients for making Koeksisters.
- The flour you sieve again to smooth
- Your butter is softened and crushed
- Chicken eggs you break into a bowl and beat them with a spatula.
Step 2: steps to make the cake Koeksisters.
- First, we will proceed to boil the syrup.
- You put a pot on the stove, turn on medium heat. You put water and sugar in the pot, sometimes use a spoon to stir it to dissolve the sugar.
- When the sugar water is boiling, you add cinnamon powder and stir well and turn off the heat.
- Wait for the syrup to cool, then put it in the refrigerator.
- Next, we move on to making the dough.
- You put the following flour in the bowl of sifted flour: baking powder, cinnamon powder, clove powder, nutmeg powder and pepper. You guys mix all the ingredients together.
- Next, you put butter in the bowl of flour, continue to mix well.
- After mixing the butter, put the beaten eggs into the bowl of flour mixture. You use a spatula to mix the dough evenly, then use your hands to knead the dough well.
- You knead the dough until we get a smooth, soft, uniform and non-sticky dough, you can stop.
- The next step, you put the dough on a piece of stencils and then stack another piece of stencils on top.
- After that, you use a stick to roll the dough, rolling the dough out really thin and wide.
- Next, you peel off the parchment above the dough and cut the dough.
- You use a knife to cut the dough into evenly large strips as shown in the picture.
- After that, you guys continue to break up the strips even more.
- Next, you take three strips of dough and start to knit them together like we braided our hair. With the first two parts of the dough, put them together to form a fixed part.
- Do the same thing until the dough is gone.
- Next, you put a pan on the stove to add lots of cooking oil to heat.
- When the cooking oil is boiling, you turn the cake into frying.
- During the frying process, you pay attention to turn the two sides of the cake so that both sides are beautiful yellow and cooked equally.
- When the cake is cooked, you take the cake out, soak it through the napkin once again to remove the oil.
- Let the cake cool down and you can enjoy it.
- When you eat the cake, you put the cake on a plate and water with cold syrup on top.
- So, we have finished South African Koeksisters cake already.
Note when making cakes Koeksisters:
- When frying the cake, please pay attention that we have to turn on a medium or low heat so it is crispy and the color is beautiful. Moreover, to make the cake delicious and not soaked in oil, you need to add a lot of cooking oil to the cake.
- As for the syrup, you can reduce the amount of sugar to suit your taste. However, because the syrup is sweet, we don't add any sugar anymore, so you need to adjust accordingly.
- Koeksisters cake is considered an extremely delicious dessert cake, crispy crispy fragrant, when eaten with sweet cinnamon syrup makes everyone tasting a delicious compliment. Not only that, the shape of the cake is also a great attraction to create the uniqueness of the Koeksisters cake.
The Koeksisters cake is very attractive, right? This cake has conquered a lot of people around the world, what about you? Try to make and feel the taste of this cake from South Africa.
Wish you all success and enjoy your meal with the Koeksisters!