Hertzog Koekies
(from Lucianolinda’s recipe box)
South African recipe handed down. Must have had their own chickens for so many eggs
Categories: Cookies
Ingredients
- 5 cups cake flour
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 sticks butter, at room temperature
- 4 lg. eggs
- smooth apricot jam
- 1 cup sugar for filling
- 2 cups coconut
- 5 lg. egg whites
Directions
- Sift flour, baking powder and salt together. Cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time; beating thoroughly after each. Add dry ingredients and mix to form soft dough. Add more flour if too moist or a few drops of water if too dry.
- Roll dough out thinly and cut in circles. Line the base of a greased patty pan tins with dough circles. ( This can be done with a sandwich cookie pan if you have one.)
- Spoon a teaspoon of apricot jam into center of each circle of dough.
- Beat egg whites to soft peak stage. Add sugar gradually while still beating. Fold in coconut. Spoon egg mixture onto apricot jam filling. Bake in preheated 350 degree oven for 20-25 minutes. Turn onto a wire rack to cool.