These churro butter cookies are churro lookalikes as they are made from a butter cookie recipe. The cookies melt in your mouth and smell gorgeous!
Pandan Lollipop Cookies
Did you celebrate National Lollipop Day last week? It fell on the Thursday 20th July 2017 and to celebrate this day, I decided to make Pandan Lollipop Cookies. I love baking and I love the Pandan aroma. It always takes me back to my childhood. Also it is a unique flavour to Asia. You can get pandan chiffon cake, pandan flavoured rice, pandan glutinous ball and many more. Recently, I also baked lot of yummy pandan pretzels, do check out the recipe!
Anyway, I wanted to make use of the Pandan flavour to make lots of different kinds of recipes. Instead of using making sweet lollipops, for this National Day, I am baking Pandan lollipop cookies instead!
Chocolate Dipped Almond Cookies
Almond cookies are one of my favourite cookies of all time. I love them especially during Chinese New Year time. I love it when they just melt in your mouth.
A few years ago, I used this almond cookies recipe which required lot of oil but they were delicious and did melt in your mouth. However, I thought I’d try this recipe this time.
Traditional Piglet Mooncake
Last year when I went back to Singapore to visit, I bought a few mooncake moulds and now it is the time of the year to make it! As I don’t have the main ingredients to make mooncake, I decided to make piglets instead. For my previous mooncake bakes, do check out my swiss roll snow skin mooncake and colourful snow skin mooncake.
Piglet or 豬仔餅 has always been my favourite snack to eat during the mooncake festival. But my mum always refused to buy them for me as they are not particularly healthy and they are made from leftover pastry for the mooncake. Now I can totally understand what she meant!
Thunder Chocolate Kisses ‘65
Recently, I came across the Bake in Black cookbook which was written by a musician and a food journalist in East London. They started started life as a blog from a kitchen and took a song or an album title which then inspired them to create a recipe. It draws influence from the world of rock and heavy metal to create awe-inspiring edible tributes in the kitchen. There are more than 60 sweet indulgences in this cookbook.
Tuesday Tutorials 2015 Week 19
A huge welcome to Week 19 of the Tuesday Tutorials Pintorials Pin Party! This week I am featuring cookies. I love baking as I find it very therapeutic. So today, I am presenting three different recipes of cookies!
Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Need a quick fix for your cookie cravings? You need this quick and simple recipe from 150 Fast & Simple Recipes book from Parragon! This beautiful little book offers 150 easy-to-follow recipes from light bites like Spicy Chicken Noodle Soup, to more adventurous dishes, such as Salt & Pepper Squid. This small hardback book is available to buy from Amazon and good book retailers. Please do note that this book is pocket size, so all the wordings and photos are quite small! It is very well written and all the recipes look delicious! Best of all, this book is very affordable at RRP £3.
Peanut Cookies
Peanut cookies are one of my favourite snacks to eat during Chinese New Year. Normally we will buy them from shops in Singapore but now living in the UK, it is impossible unless I buy them from Chinatown. So I decided to make it myself using the recipe book given to me by my aunty.
The first obstacle I found to making this recipe was trying to buy roasted peanuts without added salt. In the end I bought raw peanuts and made everything from scratch. You can usually find packets of raw peanuts in the health food aisle of a supermarket. To make roasted peanuts, I chopped the raw peanuts in a blender and roasted them in the oven at 160°C for 15 minutes. I stirred the peanuts every 5 minutes of baking.
Caramel Almond Crisp
Caramel Almond Crisp is a cookie recipe from The Secret of Cookies by Gu Huixue. I absolutely love this book my friend bought for me in Singapore and have been trying out many of her recipes!
Colourful Cookies Recipe
I’ve always wanted to bake colourful cookies whenever I saw the picture on Pinterest. So last week, I managed to spend some time with my daughter to bake them. This is a very easy recipe but it does require time to bake and is a workout for your arms. To mix the dough with four different food gels took me a long time to get the perfect colour. My daughter did get quite impatient with me mixing the food gel into the dough so I had given her a plastic glove to help knead the dough too.
To make the cookies colourful, I opted for food gel rather than food colouring liquid. Gel is much easier to mix than liquid and liquid may make your dough too wet and soft. This is my first time I bought the gel and the colour is not too bad. I had also used the food gels for my icing when I made my gingerbread house.
Christmas Gingerbread House Tutorial
This December, OXO Good Grips set bloggers an ultimate Christmas challenge to bake a gingerbread house, letting our imagination run wild with all the possible ways we can decorate it. They have also teamed up with Stork to provide us this challenge. We have received a baking bundle including Stork margarine, OXO’s new bakers 8 piece silicone decorating set, compact food scale, measuring spoon set, 11” whisk and a medium silicone spatula.
Last year when I tried to bake my gingerbread house, the whole house collapsed with cookies breaking off as I didn’t have the proper tools and maybe because I used too thin icing. So this year, I am challenging myself again to make a house that won’t crumble!
Stained Glass Window Cookies
I have regularly seen many sun catcher craft linkys on our weekly Tuesday Tutorials. So when I saw the recipe for stained glass window cookies (Christmas Cookies book from Parragon), I couldn’t wait to bake them!
The stained glass, made by boiled sweets, looks absolutely gorgeous but crushing boiled sweets is not very easy at all! I tried using a mallet, rolling pin and a knife! Also after baking the crushed sweets, it seems to reduce to nothing that I had to keep adding more sweets into the holes of the cookies.
These cookies are quite sweet and taste lovely. If you prefer less sweet, do reduce the amount of caster sugar.
Almond Meringue Cookies
I have always wanted to make meringue as they only require a couple of ingredients and should be easy but I’ve always been put off by the long baking time. Now that the children are at school, I feel like I have the time to tackle it.
This is another recipe inspired from The Secret of Cookies by Gu Huixue but I have altered the recipe slightly. This is a very light Almond Meringue Cookies with a lovely light crunch.
Milo Almond Cookies
I have always loved to drink Milo since young. For any of you unfamiliar with Milo, it is a tastier, chocolatey version of Ovaltine. Since coming to the UK, I do miss drinking cold Milo and Milo Dinosaur (a Singaporean drink – cold Milo with undissolved Milo powdered). So I decided to bake a cookie out of Milo. It was a great success! All my family members love it! You can get Milo in most Asian supermarkets like Wing Yip or you can also try the world food aisle of Asda. Strangely, depending where you buy it from, it can taste different depending where it was imported from. We prefer the South Africa import over Malaysia. So this is my Milo Almond Cookies!
Halloween Zombie Fingers
Halloween is coming soon. Have you thought of what you are going to bake? If not, why not try baking these Zombie fingers. I am not a professional baker, but just an enthusiastic amateur baker. I believe you could bake better fingers than me. This is a recipe from Patsie Cheong, One Day One Dish book which I bought while in Singapore. I have altered the recipe slightly to suit the Halloween theme.
