Hertzoggies (cookies!)

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 50 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• 250 g flour, unsifted
• 25 g superfine sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 125 g butter, room temp
• 3 large egg yolks, from very large eggs
• 15 ml water
• 4 -6 tablespoons apricot jam, fine
• 3 large egg whites, from very large eggs
• 250 g sugar
• 500 ml desiccated coconut

Recipe

• 1 sift together the flour, superfine (caster) sugar, baking powder and salt.
• 2 rub the butter lightly into the flour with fingertips until like crumbs.
• 3 beat egg yolks lightly with the water, and add.
• 4 mix until a soft, manageable dough forms. add a tiny bit more water if the dough is too firm.
• 5 knead this dough well, cover, and set aside.
• 6 heat oven to 180 deg c/350 deg f.
• 7 grease the hollows of patty pan tins, or spray with nonstick spray. (i'm talking about the shallow hollows -- not deep ones like for muffins).
• 8 roll the dough out thinly on a floured surface.
• 9 press out circles large enough to form adequate pastry crusts for the patty hollows.
• 10 line the patty hollows with the pastry.
• 11 put a small blob of jam in each crust -- about 3/4 teaspoon.
• 12 whip the egg whites until quite stiff.
• 13 slowly add the sugar and whisk well after each addition.
• 14 stir in the dessicated coconut.
• 15 put spoonsful of this filling in the patty hollows over the jam blobs. try to do this neatly as it affects the final shape of the cookie.
• 16 bake the cookies 20 - 25 minutes in centre of oven.
• 17 cool slightly in the pans, then lift out and cool on wire racks.
• 18 about 30 cookies.