BOLLAS

Recipe posted by and photo: Heather le Roux
A quick and easy substitute for koesisters!

• 25 ml butter, melted
• 20 ml sugar
• 2 eggs
• 4 × 250 ml self raising flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 250 ml milk
• 250 ml water
• 750 ml sunflower oil for deep fry
• coconut for sprinkling
• Whisk butter, eggs and sugar in a bowl until light and fluffy. Add vanilla essence.
• In a separate bowl sift flour and baking powder twice. Add flour mixture to egg mixture.
• Add milk/water and mix into a soft sticky dough.
• Allow to rest for 30 minutes.
• Place teaspoons full of mixture in hot oil and fry until golden brown.
• Hint:
  Dip spoon in cold water to ensure that dough separates from spoon to form neatly rounded balls when dropped in oil.
• Syrup:
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 ½ cup water
• Boil together until sticky.
• You may add water if syrup becomes too sticky.
• Pour syrup in a pan.
• Heat through, add bollas in syrup and boil 1 – 2 minutes until glossy, lift out and sprinkle with coconut.