Capuchinos - Small Brandied Cakes Recipe

Capuchinos - Small Brandied Cakes Recipe

Ingredients:  Makes 12,  Oven: Preheat to 200°C

¼ cup melted butter

½ cup plain (all-purpose) flour

½ teaspoon baking powder

pinch of salt

2 large eggs

½ cup sugar

1 tablespoon brandy

 

Syrup:

½ cup sugar

½ cup water

1 tablespoon brandy

 

Method:

Make syrup and set aside to cool.  Preheat oven and grease muffin tins.  Melt butter and allow it to cool.  Sift flour, baking powder and salt together.  Beat eggs with rotary beater until frothy, add sugar gradually and continue beating until thick and light.  Mix in melted butter and brandy, then fold in the dry ingredients.  Half fill muffin tins with batter and bake in a hot preheated oven for 10 - 15 minutes or until cakes are golden brown.  Remove from tins, dip briefly into syrup for no more than a second and put on a cake cooler to dry.

 

Syrup:  Put sugar and water into a small saucepan and dissolve sugar over low heat.  Boil hard for 2 minutes, then allow to cool and stir in brandy.

 

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