How to Prepare Tasty Mini-Cake Mandazi

Mini-Cake Mandazi. Soft Mini Mandzi - East African doughnuts made with grated coconut, spiced with cardamon, nutmeg, and fried to perfection. So I guess it is no secret that I love fried dough, you can tell by all puff-puffs, and doughnuts that I have featured here on this blog. Not to talk of this other Mandazi featured here.

Still, when necessity dictates -- or when it's just too hot to use your main oven -- even minimalist toaster ovens are. See more ideas about doughnut recipe, drop doughnut recipe, african food. Tip the flour into a large bowl. You can have Mini-Cake Mandazi using 9 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Mini-Cake Mandazi

1. Prepare 450 g of All purpose Flour or Exe for Mandazi.
2. You need 2 of tbsp.
3. Prepare 2 cups of castor sugar.
4. Prepare 2 of eggs.
5. You need of I cup margarine/ Unsalted butter.
6. It's 1 tbsp of Cardamon.
7. You need 2 tbsp of Lemon Rind.
8. Prepare 2 cups of Warm milk.
9. You need of Enough clean cooking oil to fry.

On one side of the flour place the dried yeast and on the opposite, the salt and sugar; if yeast (fresh or dried) comes into direct contact with salt, it will be killed, so always start with these two apart. Mix well with a wooden spoon. Lightly warm the butter and milk together in the microwave, stir until the butter melts and pour. In a large bowl, stir together the almond flour, sweetener, baking powder, cinnamon, and sea salt.

Mini-Cake Mandazi instructions

1. Sieve flour.
2. Add baking powder to flour.
3. Add caster sugar, Cardamon and Lemon Rind to the Flour.
4. Rub in Margarine to the Flour mixture till crumby. Take you're time to ensure you are airing the mixture as well..
5. Beat eggs separately...and add milk to it..
6. Add the milk/eggs combination to the Flour mix..
7. Knead till you're comfortable with the texture. Cover with Cloth for 30 minutes or overnight if not in a hurry..
8. Knead again the mixture and leave to rise again. This time it's ready for rolling and frying..
9. Ensure you don't burn. Fry carefully to get a golden brown inviting color..

In a small bowl, whisk together the melted butter, almond milk, egg, and vanilla extract. Whisk the wet mixture into the dry mixture. If your cake is super moist, you may want to pop it back into the oven and give it a bit more time to cook. On different occasions, we've given him cash, coins, mandazi (Swahili Buns) and even some extra avocados we were carrying on our way home. After one particular rough day at work, Maureen and I saw him crossing the opposite side of the street to meet us as we walked home.