00:13well hello there folks and a very warm welcome back to what's for tea it's lovely to see you
00:19again and here's another wee bonus video from the recipe archives and this one is a traditional
00:24scottish snowball recipe which i think you'll enjoy if you haven't seen it already this one is from
00:312021 so yeah where do the years go so let's go and get into the video so this is everything
00:37that i
00:37used here but all of these ingredients will be in the show more box underneath the video so i've just
00:43got some butter some jam an egg some milk some flour some desiccated coconut some icing sugar
00:50some sugar and that's it i'm going to be using caster sugar but if you don't have caster sugar
00:56you can obviously just use ordinary white sugar it really doesn't matter and this is just another
01:01few things that i've used here so this is everything not many ingredients at all so we're going to start
01:07off by creaming together the butter and the sugar and also a wee pinch of salt or half teaspoon of
01:13salt in there as well now i'm going to use an electric mixer but you can do this by hand
01:18it'll only take you a few minutes and you just want to make sure everything is nicely combined
01:23just like this and i'm going to add in a couple of tablespoons of milk to this now the amount
01:28will
01:29vary you know on your own mixture you'll know yourself you know if it's looking too dry you can
01:33add in a wee bit more and then throw in an egg and then your flour now i would recommend
01:38popping this
01:39in in stages because if you put it all in straight away it's just going to fly everywhere so put
01:45this
01:45in in a couple of different stages and just make sure it's well mixed together it won't take you
01:50long at all but like i said at the end of your mixing if you find your mixture is looking
01:55a bit
01:55dry you know it should be quite tacky and sticky like this but if it's looking too dry just pop
02:02in
02:02another tablespoon of milk and give another mix so once you're happy you can pop your mixture onto your
02:08surface make sure your surface is well floured give it a wee roll around and a wee bat around just
02:14to make
02:14sure it's nicely you know it's just a nice shape for easy to pull your bits off of and you
02:19know as
02:19it's a wee bit drier and not sticking to your hands because we are going to weigh this or i'm
02:26going to
02:26weigh this so pop that to your to the side and then you want to grab yourself a baking tray
02:31with some
02:32grease proof paper on the top and then obviously your scale so i'm going to measure my mixture and i'm
02:41depending on how many uh snowballs you want to make i wanted to make six snowballs so i i need
02:4712 halves
02:48so i need 12 balls and they all need to be the same weight so i'm going to weigh mine
02:54out and they were
02:5433 grams or round about that each so just roll that your mixture into wee balls pop them onto your
03:01baking
03:01tray and just make sure there's a nice gap in between them because they will spread out and look at
03:06that
03:06mess they will spread out in the oven they don't take long to cook because they are quite small so
03:12give them about 8 to 12 minutes and you know they won't have much color on them they don't tend
03:17to go
03:17too brown you know you don't want them really dark either so you just want to kind of marry your
03:23two
03:23halves up and that will give you your snowball but just pop them onto a wire tray just now just
03:28to make
03:29sure they're cool before you start dipping them in your icing you do want these you know completely cold
03:35and once they're completely cold you can turn your attention to your jam now this is where a lot of
03:40people go wrong they over fill these the jam isn't meant to be a filling it's just a glue to
03:46hold your
03:47two halves together you know that there is a you're tempted just to put as much jam in here as
03:53you can
03:54but please don't because it'll be a nightmare they will not set properly they'll be sliding
03:59around and the jam will be dripping into your icing so just put enough on just to hold the two
04:05sides
04:05together and give them a wee push down just to sort of seal them but make sure you're you're gentle
04:11because they are quite fragile they're just wee sponge cakes at the end of the day so yeah don't
04:16overfill them just give them enough of a coating as you can see there when you you know when you
04:21pick
04:22them up they they don't separate even at this stage we're going to pop these into the fridge for half
04:27an hour to completely set but even now you can see that they are you know holding together well
04:33while you're waiting on those setting in the fridge you can do your icing so into your bowl pop 200
04:39grams of your icing sugar this is also known as obviously confectioner sugar or powdered sugar and
04:45you just want to put enough milk in here to give you a nice runny glaze you don't want this
04:50thick at all
04:51it's just a glaze to hold on your coconut so grab your snowballs roll them around and your icing roll
04:58them around with one hand and dredge with coconut with your other hand so keep one hand dry for this
05:04part and your other wet hand you can use for dipping your snowballs really easy just give them a
05:11wee roll around and then pop them onto this tree that you were using earlier because we're going to put
05:15these back into the fridge just to set your icing really simple and again the much the amount of
05:22coconut you put on these is completely up to yourself you could even double dip them if you
05:27like i don't like too much coconut on these so this was ideal for me so just pop them into
05:32the fridge
05:32just until your icing sets and then you can just leave them at room temperature you know they don't
05:37have to be refrigerated once they're set so once they're set and the you know the icing is no longer
05:43sticking to your fingers you can get them out and just i like to slice them in half but i've
05:48sliced
05:48this one in half just to let you see and just let them get to room temperature you know yeah
05:53that was
05:53my wheat scottish snowball recipe absolutely delicious and do please give them a go they're
05:59just so much fun and they're really really nice to eat as well so thank you so much for watching
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