These are the third batch of cookies I'm baking for CNY. I actually intend to bake Mickey & Minnie cookies and almond crisps this week. But after reading the last issue of U-weekly, I decided to bake 2 of the cookie recipes published in that issue - almond cookies and peanut cookies.
Almond cookies:
Peanut cookies:
The peanut cookies are extremely difficult to make. It uses a lot of peanut powder, which I think resulted in a very crumbly dough. It was very hard to roll the dough and cut the cookies. In the end, I tried to improve by pressing the dough into the cookie cutter.
Here are the two recipes from U-weekly magazine:
Almond Cookies
Ingredients (I make 26 pieces with half the recipe)
110g butter
50g castor sugar
1/4 tbsp almond essence
30g egg
120g plain flour
50g cornflour
1/4 tsp baking soda
60g almond powder
Method
1. Place butter, castor sugar and almond essence together, mix evenly till creamy.
2. Add egg and mix evenly.
3. Add flour, corn flour and baking soda and mix evenly.
4. Add almond powder and mix evenly.
5. Place dough on tracing paper, roll cookie dough to 10mm thickness.
6. Cut up cookie dough with cookie cutter and place almond bits on top of the cookie to decorate.
7. Preheat oven to 175C and bake for 18 minutes.
Peanut Cookies
Ingredients (I make 55 pieces)
70g butter
50g fine sugar
30g egg
70g plain flour
150g peanut powder
Method
1. Place butter and fine sugar together, mix evenly till creamy.
2. Add egg and mix evenly.
3. Add flour and peanut powder to the mix and stir evenly.
4. Place dough on tracing paper, roll cookie dough to 10mm thickness.
5. Cut up cookie dough with cookie cutter and place a peanut on top of the cookie to decorate.
6. Preheat oven to 160C and bake for 18 minutes.