Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookies

This was my Chinese New Year cookie speciality to usher in the Year of the Tiger.





Monday, February 22, 2010

Almond Square Cookie

This recipe is taken from Y3K Cookbooks series on New Year Cookies by Alan Ooi.
Ingredients:
A
180g Butter
110g Icing Sugar
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B
1/8 tsp Vanilla Essense
1 Egg White
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C
180g Plain Flour
10g Corn Flour
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For Topping : Some Almond Flakes

For Glazing : 1 Egg (Beaten)

Method:
1. Put Ingredient A into Mixer & beat until light & fluffy. Add Ingredient B, mix well. Fold in Ingredient C to form a soft dough.

2. Grease / scatter some flour the surface of a a 14" x 10" tray or 14" x 14" tray. Pour the soft dough into the pan & spread it out evenly with a spatula.

3. Bake in preheated oven at 180'C for 12 minutes. Cut into square pieces of 1.5" each. Cool cookies & then glaze the cookies. Press Almond flakes on top & glaze again.

4. Bake it again in oven at 180'C for another 5-8 minutes (you'll need to see how brown you want your cookies). Cool before storage.