This fortnight’s Queen Baking Club challenge is Iced VoVo Cupcakes to celebrate Australia Day on 26 January. Iced VoVos, for the uninitiated, are vanilla sugar cookies coated with two stripes of pink fondant on either side of the biscuit, with a stripe of raspberry jam in the centre, and the whole lot is sprinkled with coconut.
Currently, Arnotts makes Iced VoVos, which are thought to have been invented by Hudsons Biscuits in 1904. Of course, there is a Kiwi challenger to the title, which you can read about here.
Queen Fine Foods’ recipe for Iced VoVo Cupcakes is online here. Just like the biscuit, it is a vanilla, raspberry and coconut flavoured confection. The cupcakes contain frozen raspberries and dessicated coconut, while the icing contains raspberry purée topped with dessicated coconut:
These cupcakes were a big hit at work - I received more compliments about these than I have about anything for ages. Thanks for the recipe Queen!
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These look like fun. I thought they had marshmallow not fondant in the pink strips.
ReplyDeleteI love Iced Vovos! They were my second favourite biscuit growing up (after Kingstons) but I'd only eat the marshmallow and jam from the top.
ReplyDeleteI'm not surprised that these cupcakes were a hit at work. They look amazing.
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