Friday, July 29, 2011

ALMOND BUTTER COOKIES 杏仁牛油饼


There is a saying that baking can be a great bonding activity and I agree fully to it. Last Sunday, I had a fun cookies baking session with my son Ming Ray. He enjoyed his little master chef task assigned by me to cut the dough into assorted shapes that he liked with cookies cutter. Not only he gave a big thumb up to the taste of the cookies he made, the following day he proudly shared the cookies with his buddies at school too. J


This easy cookies recipe was adapted from Baking Made Easy by Agnes Chang (蓝赛珍,轻轻松松学烘焙); it was named Almond Cookies in the book. However I found the cookies were overpowered by the buttery flavor. To me it tasted more like butter cookies than almond cookies. Hence, I am renaming this recipe to Almond Butter Cookies. Having said that, the cookies are tasty to eat, not too sweet and it was really crunchy on the outside but soft from the inside.


ALMOND BUTTER COOKIES  杏仁牛油饼


ALMOND BUTTER COOKIES

INGREDIENTS A
180g butter
90g castor sugar
1/8 tsp salt
½ tsp Vanilla essence

 INGREDIENTS B
(sifted together)
135g plain flour, sifted
90g rice flour, sifted
90g ground almond

DECORATION
50g almond flakes on top as decoration

METHOD :
  1. Cream butter and castor sugar till light and fluffy, add salt, vanilla and mix well.
  2. Fold in B: plain flour, rice flour and mix into soft dough.
  3. Roll dough between 2 sheets of plastic into 3mm thick.
  4. Using cookies cutter cut into desired shape.
  5. Arrange cookies onto a greased baking tray. 
  6. Decorate top with almond flake. (I skipped this)
  7. Bake in a pre-heated oven at 180 degrees C for 15-20 minutes, till lightly brown.
  8. Remove and cool before storing into air-tight container.
杏仁牛油饼 

材料A
180克牛油
90克幼糖
1 / 8茶匙盐
半茶匙香草精

材料B
(一起筛过)
135克低筋面粉,过筛
90克粘米粉,过筛
90克杏仁粉

装饰
50克杏仁片作为装饰
方法
1。牛油与幼糖粉一起打至松发变白,加入盐,香草拌匀。
2。将低筋面粉、杏仁粉,粘米粉过筛,加入作法1中混合拌匀成软面团。
3。将软面团放在2张保鲜膜之间,将面团杆成约3毫米厚的面团。
4。使用饼干压模压出所需的形状。
5。把杏仁薄片装饰饼干面团顶部。 (我跳过这部份)
6。烤盘铺上烤盘纸,将作法4排入烤盘中,再放进烤箱上层,
180烤约15-20分钟即可
7
。取出,待凉才存储。

11 comments:

  1. It feels that Christmas in July making this butter cookies. It's always fun to cook with children and see them enjoy their cooking. I made your lo see fun the other day to surprise my husband and it was fun, too.

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  2. Dear Veronica:
    It is always so happy to know that the things you shared made others happy too. Well, this is what sharing for right? :-P
    Can't agreed more on your statement. Thanks for checking in.

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  3. Beautiful cookies and lovely pictures.

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  4. Hai yin! My name is yulia from jakarta indonesia. I found your blogg when am googling for dongpo pork. Not only found what i want, i'm also falling in love with your blog. I am a hakka also and ur recipes me remind me of my chilhood eating those mommy dishes.
    Thanks for sharing dear ^^

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  5. Yulia:
    That's the wonder of internet right?
    I'm really please to know another Hakka out there. Great to know that you enjoy my recipes. I hope you will follow me on, and do tryout the dish that I shared and welcome for your comments.

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  6. Yin, what a great pic of your handsome boy! Cooking together with your kids definitely is a good way to make fond memories. Those cookies looks perfect. Your assistant baker did a great job in cutting out the dough:D

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  7. yin-ha, how you?

    the measures are a lil tricky; guess you got to have a digital weigh. i want to try your short bread and now am tempted by this. love the almond butter taste!

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  8. Thoma:
    Glad have you dropped by. I read that you are moving too right. Wish you a pleasant moving and smooth transition in your new place.

    ViVian:
    Ever since I was back to working field, been busy. But I'm happy and contented. Thanks for visitng.

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