South African Souskluitjies
This South African treat is a favourite. Spongy dumplings coated in a cinnamon-sugar sprinkle and syrup. It's perfect way to warm up your tastebud and a deliciously inexpensive dessert!
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Servings: 15 dumplings
Ingredients
Dumplings
- 150 grams cake flour or heaped cup of flour
- 2 ½ tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp salt
- 50 grams butter room temperature
- 50 ml milk
- 2 large eggs
- ½ tsp vanilla essence optional
Cinnamon Sugar
- 20 grams sugar
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
Cinnamon Syrup
- 30 grams sugar
- 30 grams butter melted, separated
- ½ tsp cinnamon sugar
- ¼ tsp salt
Instructions
- Start by assembling all the ingredients.
- To a medium bowl, add flour, baking powder and salt together. Mix lightly.
- Add butter to the flour mixture and rub it in using your finger tips until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
- In a separate bowl, whisk milk, eggs and vanilla essence together.
- Add the egg mixture to the flour and mix with a spatula or wooden spoon until you have a firm dough.
- Let the dough rest while you bring 700ml water to a boil - lid on. Once boiling, lower the heat to low-medium. Note: Make sure it's a slow boil but not too slow.
- Once boiling, remove the lid, wet two dessert spoons in the boiling water. Scoop a tbsp worth of batter into the simmering water and repeat until you've filled half of the saucepan. Cover and simmer for 5-8 minutes undisturbed. Note: Do not lift the lid otherwise the dumplings will fall flat. Don't overcrowd the saucepan, the dumplings expand quite a bit. So depending on the size of saucepan you use, you might need to cook the dumplings in batches.
- Meanwhile, for the cinnamon syrup, melt butter in a small bowl and set aside. In a separate bowl, mix sugar and cinnamon together and set aside. Once the dumplings are done, use a slotted spoon to strain them and place on or in your serving dish. Using a spoon, coat each dumpling with a teaspoon worth of melted butter and cinnamon sugar mixture.
- Cover the dumplings with a lid and keep warm while you quickly prepare the syrup.
- Add the remaining butter, sugar, cinnamon, and salt to the remaining water in which the dumplings were boiled. Stir and bring to a boil. Allow the liquid to reduce and thicken slightly. Pour over the dumplings and serve warm.