South African Snowballs - cooking recipe

Ingredients

125 g butter
125 ml cream
125 ml caster sugar
625 ml self raising flour, sifted
1 teaspoon strawberry essence
200 g strawberry jam
375 ml boiling water
1 teaspoon food coloring (pink or red)
desiccated coconut, as required

Preparation

Cream butter and sugar till fluffly. Beat in cream. Add flour and knead to make soft dough.
Divide dough into 24 balls. Flatten each ball slightly.
Place 12 each on cookie sheets.
Bake in oven preheated at 180 degrees celcius for 15 minutes ortill edges are brown.
Beat jam with a fork. Add boiling water and colouring and whisk till smooth.
Sandwich two cooled cakes with a bit of jam/water syrup.
Then dip the two sanwiched cakes in the syrup.
Roll in coconut and leave uncovered for a bit to dry.