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Asian recipes

Marmalade rusks

50 minutes, plus 5-7 hours’ drying time in the oven

Soup recipes

Thai-style green chicken soup with coconut naan dippers

25–30 minutes

Doughnut recipes

Aunty Ven’s everything crunchies

20 minutes

Afternoon tea

Hertzoggie cake

40 minutes (or 2 hours if baked in batches)

Cake recipes

Aunty Bev’s mud cake

20 minutes

Cheat’s lamingtons and snowballs

Serves Makes 16

Difficulty Easy

Prep Time 15 minutes

Ingredients

1 Woolworths Madeira loaf
2 x 180 g cups, desiccated coconut
For the lamington syrup, mix:
75 g ¾ cup, icing sugar
¾ cup hot water
2 T melted butter
1 T cocoa powder
For the snowball syrup, mix:
75 g ¾ cup, icing sugar
¾ cup hot water
2 T melted butter

Method

@wwtaste These 5-ingredient snowballs and lamingtons are the fastest you’ll ever make! All you need is a @Woolworths SA Madeira cake, icing sugar, butter, cocoa powder and coconut! INGREDIENTS 1 x Woolworths Madeira loaf 180 g desiccated coconut For the lamington syrup, mix: 75 g icing sugar ¾ cup hot water 2 T melted butter 1 T cocoa powder For the snowball syrup, mix: 75 g icing sugar ¾ cup hot water 2 T melted butter METHOD 1 Slice the Madeira loaf in half lengthwise and then into cubes to make 16 even squares. 2 Make the two syrups in separate bowls and divide the coconut between 2 separate bowls. 3 Dip a Madeira square into the chocolate syrup for no longer than 3 seconds, ensuring that it is evenly covered. Gently place it into the coconut and cover generously. Repeat with 7 more Madeira square. Do the same for the snowball squares using the other syrup and bowl of coconut. #snowballs #lamingtons #cakehack #woolworthssa ♬ Trending upbeat corporate sound ♪ - 3KTrack

1. Slice the Madeira loaf in half lengthwise and then into cubes to make 16 even squares.

2. Make the two syrups in separate bowls and divide the coconut between 2 separate bowls.

3. Dip a Madeira square into the chocolate syrup for no longer than 3 seconds, ensuring that it is evenly covered. Gently place it into the coconut and cover generously. Repeat with 7 more Madeira square. Do the same for the snowball squares using the other syrup and bowl of coconut.

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Cheat’s lamingtons and snowballs

Ingredients

Method