Recipes

Traditional and contemporary recipes for biscuits, confectionery, cakes and tarts, rusks (beskuit), various breads and buns, light meals, sides, salads, the main course, pudding, a few drinks, as well as preserved foods.

We also have recipes for special occasions, such as braais (barbeques), breakfast, Christmas, Easter, and teatime.

Caramel apple tart (karamel appeltert)

Apple slices nestled on cake batter, baked, and then covered in a creamy syrup.

Custard Dumplings (vla sponskluitjies)

Derivative of traditional South African Souskluitjies (dumplings).

Peppermint Crisp balls

Truffles made from South African Peppermint Crisp chocolate bars

Cinnamon stars

German Zimsterne are similar to macaroons, but rolled out and cut with a cookie press

Tea sandwiches

Tiny sandwiches for a relaxed afternoon tea.

Two-tone biscuits

Chocolate and vanilla biscuits.

Orange syrup cake (lemoenstroop koek)

Orange syrup cake, with dates and cardamom.

Old-fashioned South African spice biscuits (soetkoekies)

Spicy, wine-flavoured biscuits.

Vegetarian bobotie

Vegetarian version of bobotie, a mild spicy dish usually made from minced meat and egg custard

Bokkepootjes

Old-fashioned biscuits made from meringue and almond, that are also gluten free.

Savoury blue cheese biscuits

Blue cheese and thyme biscuits.

Crunchy cereal biscuits (knarskoekies)

Breakfast cereal baked into a biscuit

Coffee Bears (Koffiebere)

Crispy-chewy coffee biscuits.

Frozen Peppermint Crisp tart

Crunchy mint ice cream tart

Anise seed biscuits (anyskoekies)

Old fashioned recipe for anise seed biscuits.

Cinnamon sugar biscuits

Crunchy but soft in the middle, coated with cinnamon and sugar

Currant cup-cakes

Old-fashioned cup-cake recipe with currants and nutmeg.

Unbaked milk tartlets (miniatuur melktertjies)

Finger food sized milk tartlets.

South African lamingtons (Ystervarkies)

Small cubes of cake, dipped in chocolate sauce and rolled in coconut.

Traditional South-African chicken pie

Shredded chicken pie, with ham and egg.