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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Ready for Christmas?


Cookie Dough
(recipe adapted from Fong's Kitchen Journal)
 
Ingredients:
70g Liv salted butter, soften at room temperature
50g icing sugar
1/2 beaten egg
130g plain flour + 1/4 tsp baking powder (sifted)
10g milk powder
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
2 tsp orange/lemon zests

Method:
1. Cream butter & icing sugar till light & creamy.  Add in beaten egg, vanilla extract & zests, beat well.  Mix in the plain flour, baking powder & milk powder to form a dough.

2. Wrap dough with clingwrap & chill in the fridge for an hour.

3. Roll the dough between two pieces of baking paper & cut cookies to desired shapes. 

4. Bake the cookies in a preheated oven of 180C for 20mins.  Cool completely before decoration.

I am submitting my post to "My Treasured Recipes #4 - Ho Ho Ho, Its Christmas (Dec 2014)" hosted by Miss B Everybody Eats Well In Flanders & co-host by Charmaine of Mimi Bakery House
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6 comments:

  1. Miss BDecember 19, 2014 at 6:54 AM

    Hi cathy,
    What a cute cookie house! I am very tempted to try it but time is running out :) Btw may I ask how did you make the wall surface uneven ?

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  2. cathysjoyDecember 19, 2014 at 8:12 AM

    Hi Miss B,
    I roll the cookie doughs into log shape n lined them together before cutting out the

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  3. Miss BDecember 19, 2014 at 9:04 PM

    Ah thanks, so clever! I learnt something :)

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  4. Miss BDecember 19, 2014 at 9:05 PM

    Can I also ask how did you make the snowy top on the house, is that marshmallow ?

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  5. cathysjoyDecember 19, 2014 at 10:03 PM

    Oh, the white snow are done by royal icing ;)

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  6. cathysjoyDecember 19, 2014 at 10:03 PM

    =)

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