《《 Baked Cookies for Sale 》》

Nothing beats homemade cookies, and it is nice to know that others enjoyed mine as well.

Baking some cookies for a little boy's birthday this Friday. Hope these little simple cookies for his teachers and classmates, will make his day. And of course, hopefully they like my cookies too:-p

Having baked about 150 cookies within 4 hours, it is actually a big challenge for me.. And I had to make sure that the cookies are not burnt. Luckily this time round, all went well..:-D

Have a little homemade cookies by us with LOVE.

If you like to have this cookie recipe, you may wish to CLICK HERE.

曹可爱的饼干。♡Bear Cookie, Doggie Cookie & Watermelon Cookie♡

It is a Cookie Weekend for us this week.

I was looking through some of my cookies book I bought a couple of months.

Finally pluck up the courage to do "such" cookies as I thought, these cookies were very challenging and tedious. Plus the last time I had tried another cookie recipe from another book but it didn't turned out what they supposed to be:-p

Took up this challenge and had a very fruitful result!!!

Ain't these cookies awfully adorable too???

My girls loved these cookies too. They were all waiting by the side to grab a cookie once I'm done with the photo takings...

The Bear Cookie

The Dog Cookie

And the Watermelon Cookie

(Does it looked like one anyway???)

As much as the girls were thrilled over the cookies, so was I.

After all, it wasn't that much of a challenge. All I ever need was time and patience.

Here are the cookies before baking.

 So, how would you like these pretty cookies too??

Not only they looked fabulous, they tasted delicious too!!!

So in ♡♡ with these cookies.

I will post up the step by step pictures in my next attempt.

As the recipe was in Mandarin and some of the the steps were stated wrongly and it took me quite a while to follow up.

Meantime, enjoy!

For other cookies:

Rabbit Cookies

Cutlery Cookies - The Fork & The Spoon Cookies

I was packing up the cupboard in my office and I found these cookie cutter. My colleague had visited China last year and she had bought this cutter for me as a souvenir. This is cute isn't it??? It came just nice for the new cookie that I had wanted to try out.

I realised that recently my girls had been pretty keen on the cookies that I had been trying out.. It had been quite a while since their last thrill on my baked cookies.. Probably this time round, all these new cookies attempts were very cute & interesting??? I would think so too.:-D

The girls were all very excited as these forks & spoons were very cute. And plus the fact that they can dip them into the chocolate sauce. Only one problem was that I couldn't find anything to let my cookies stand while waiting for the chocolate to set in... No choice, I tried using my cooling rack, with its little holes to hold them.

This cookie dough was much more easier to roll on as it did not have any egg contents. I had also cut down on the sugar level as I do not want the cookies to be too sweet.

After cutting out the shapes, I had used the letters to endorsed the girls' name on the cookies...

All of them can't wait to lay their little hands on the cookies and kept asking me if the cookies were ready..

Here's Mimi, she is one of the persistent one... as the elder sisters had to go to bed early for school tomorrow, Mimi had been hanging around the kitchen, waiting for the cookies to be ready..

These little cookies were all nicely packed up for school tomorrow.

While the 3 of them were enjoying the cookies in school, their classmates were also very envying them as the cookies had their names on it... A little time consuming to bake these cookies...but the thought of it, when the cookies were very popular with the girls and that they were gone the very next day, made all the effort worthwhile..:)

Recipe as adapted from 每天都是餅乾日 by 安星美 

Ingredients:

(yeilds about 20 pieces)

120g plain flour

30g almond powder

65g icing sugar (I used 50g)

pinch of salt

20g whipping cream (I used milk)

60g butter, softened

1 tsp vanilla essence

120g chocolate for dips

How to bake:

1. Add the butter, icing sugar & salt in a mixing bowl. Mix well.

2. Add in the milk until well corporated.  Add in the vanilla essence, stir well.

3. Add in the sieved flour and almond powder into the mixture, mix well until you get a dough.

4. Roll out the dough until 0.3cm thick and cut them using the cookie cutter.

5. Bake the cookies in a preheated oven of 170~175C for about 10 mins. Remove the cookies from the tray and let it cool on the rack.

6. Dip the cookies into the chocolate and let it set. Ready to be eaten & packed:)

HAVE FUN!!!

♡Raspberry Linzer Cookies♡

Linzer sablés (German: Linzer Augen, "Linzer eyes") are a cookie-sized version, made by cutting a circle of a similar dough, covering it with jam, placing a donut-like circle with a hole in the center piece of dough on top, and dusting with confectioner's sugar.

The Linzer is named after the city of Linz, Austria.

They are made of flour, unsalted butter, egg yolks, lemon zest, cinnamon and lemon juice, and ground nuts, usually hazelnuts, but even walnuts or almonds are used, covered with a filling of redcurrant jam or, alternatively, plum butter, thick raspberry, or apricot jam.

They are a holiday classic in the Austrian, Hungarian, Swiss, German, and Tirolean traditions, often eaten at Christmas. Linzer Torte is often made like small tarts or cookies in North American bakeries.

Source as adapted from Wikipedia

I was browsing one of my chinese baking book I bought recently. So these pretty Linzer Cookies caught my attention... As the dough had to be refrigerated for about 30 minutes, I had asked my maid to help me make the dough and refrigerate it, so that when I get back home from work, I will be able to work on the dough immediately.

Though the dough was refrigerated for about 40 minutes, it was still very soft and unmangeable to cut the shapes out. So after making these cookies, I googled around for other recipes and some of them were eggless and they had refrigerated the dough for at least 1~2 hours. I will probably attempt to bake these cookies again without the egg as my hubby & maid told me that these cookies were great with the jam.. As for the girls, they liked the plain versions plus the little cut-out heart shaped cookies...

These cookies just reminded me of the almond cookies that I had made. Having the similar ingredients, the taste was almost the exact as well. A very smooth and soft texture you will get with these cookies.

Coated the top with icing sugar and spreading the jam on the other.

And the final outcome of these Linzer Cookies were successful, though I had made quite a mess in the kitchen yesterday night :-p

Recipe as adapted from 每天都是餅乾日 by 安星美 

Ingredients:

(yeilds about 20 pieces)

110g plain flour

50g almond power

70g icing sugar (I used 50g)

1g salt

1/2 egg

70g unsalted butter

3g vanilla essence

How to bake:

1. Put in the sieved flour, almond powder, icing sugar and sugar in a mixer bowl & mix well.

2. Add in the softened butter and beat till well corporated.

3. Add in the egg & vanilla essence. Beat well until you get a dough.

4. Place the dough into a ziplock bag and refrigerate for about 30 minutes.

5. Roll out the dough till about 0.3cm thick. Cut the dough with your desired shapes.

6. Bake in a preheated oven of 175~180C for about 8~10 minutes.

7. Dust the top cookie with icing sugar and spread the jam on the bottom cookie. Sandwiched them together to get your yummy Linzer Cookies...:)

(do bear with me as I had translated them from Chinese to English :-p)

Melting Almond Cookies - All ready for CNY perhaps??? (Revisited)

Melting Almond Cookies.. ...

These are what we wanted isn't it...???

I had made these cookies last Chinese New Year, and now another year had gone, and it's a brand new Chinese New Year...

These Almond Cookies are not one to be missed... I loved them very much as they are very easy to make, and best part is, it is soft and it melts in your mouth... Everyone had praises for these cookies. Even my helper told me to keep some for her...

Unlike the usual almond cookies that are coated with egg coatings on the top, these almond cookies are the original as they are. Try reducing the sugar as I find them abit sweet for me:)

Otherwise, enjoy baking these cookies...:-D

BUT BEWARE....
These cookies are dangerous... You can't stop eating them. You just want to pop more one after another...
hehehehe...

Recipe as adapted from Nonya Recipe Book

Ingredients:

100g icing sugar (75g)

150g plain flour

( I used self-raising & omitted baking powder & baking soda)

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp salt

50g almond powder

150ml canola oil

1 tsp vanilla essence

Method:

Mix all dry ingredients into a big mixing bowl, combine well.

Add the vanilla essence and oil, and knead into a dough.

Roll it out and cut into desired cookie moulds.

Bake in a preheated oven of 180C for about 15-20 mins.

Allow to cool and store in an air-tight container.

Golden Puff Pastry with Peanut ♡花生油角♡

I bought one of the cookbook recipe, and for this month, they have some Chinese New Year Goodies, and this Golden Puff Pastry with Peanut is one of them.

I took half of the recipe to try out. It was rather simplified in fact.

Mixing all the ingredients and kneading it into a dough, and resting it for 10 mins before we roll it out.

I remembered when I was rather young, my Aunty used to make these Peanut Puff Pastry and it was delicious. And we were having fun making these puffs. Initially when I tried to make the folds, I couldn't get the rhythm, seems pretty clumsy with it.. but subsequently with the following puffs, I managed to get the folds done up nicely.

Hehehehe.... I like mine stuffed with lots of peanuts. I know those selling outside are filled with miserable amount of peanuts, so since these are homemade... so why not...??? :-D
I had used those ready-made peanut powder from the supermarket for my convenience.

Hubby & Nat loved these Puff Pastry very much... Nat had 4 at one go...

Here is the recipe for some of you whom might be keen and is a "Kok Zai" fan:-D

(using half of the ingredients, and a 5-cm round mould, yeilds about 25-30 puffs)

Ingredients:

300g plain flour

70g shortening

1/2 tsp salt

160ml water

Method:

1. Combine flour, shortening & salt, mix well. Add in water, knead to form a dough. Rest dough for about 10 mins.

2. Cover dough with cellophane paper (cling wrap) up and down, roll into thin skin, and cut skin into round shape using a mould.

3. Spoon in a little peanut filling on the skin and form into a mini puff.

4. Deep-Fry puffs in a hot oil over low heat until cooked through and golden brown. Dish out, drain well. Serve.

Peanut Fillings

150g toasted peanuts

80g sugar

Method:

Blend peanut in a food processor till fine, dish out and combine it with caster sugar, mix well.

I am such a dark chocolate chips cookie and I am overly sweeeeeet.....

I am trying out a new recipe from one of my new cookie recipe book. The German Cookies I made the other day ain't my gals favourite. But for the adults, they loved it very much. Well, the gals preferred Chocolate Cookies...Nic had asked me to bake chocolate cookies instead. So browsing through my new book, I saw these chocolate cookies...

These chocolate cookies used quite a fair bit of chocolates. I had used baking chocolates, cocoa powder & chocolate chips. Thus these cookies had became the awfully chocolates cookies.

Are you a chocolate fan too???

I feel these chocolate cookies are far too sweeeeeeet for me. And also, please watch the cookies, don't over baked them as they will be burnt.... That was what happened to me... hahahaha....

Overall, these chocolate chips cookies scored fairly well with the gals... Except for being exceptionally dark brown....:))

Ingredients

230g butter

150g soft chocolate (i use baking chocolates)

75g sugar

300g flour

50g cocoa powder

chocolate chips

Method

Cream butter, soft chocolate & sugar until soft and creamy.

Add in the sieved flour+cocoa powder, mix well until well combined.

Roll the cookie dough into small little balls and flatten them to about 1cm thick. Put 3-4 chocolate chips on top of the cookie dough.

Bake in a preheated oven of 170C for about 20-25mins.

Do keep a llokout for the cookies. Do not over bake as they will be burnt.

The oooh-sooo-melts-in-the-mouth German Cookies

I had gotten this German Cookies recipe from Baking Wonderland. But I am not too sure whom's recipe was this as I had KIV this recipe for quite some time back.

Lena, BW, is actually a baking group created in FB. In there, people will usually share their recipes with others. So sometimes I gotten some of my yummy recipes from there.. hehehehe:-p

I am not too sure about you, but recently when I tried to post my comments in other people's blog, it does not published as it should be.. Anyone facing the same problem as me, or was it just my computer??? :(

Well, I must say these German Cookies were very delicious indeed, and the best part was, it was sooooo soft, and it reeeeaaaalllllllyyyyy MELTS in your mouth... Sounds amazing isn't it??? But it's true...

Here are the cookies before baking.

Roll them in small little balls and flatten them slightly. Press them down with a fork.

But do be gentle with them as they were extremely soft.

My hubby and myself liked them very much as well. Even my friends said it was good!!!

So why don't you try baking one now???

Recipe as adapted from Baking Wonderland

(Sorry, but I wasn't too sure whose recipe it belongs to...:-p)

Ingredients:

250g butter

80g sugar

250g potato starch

160g fine flour (I used cake flour)

Method:

1. Cream the butter and sugar until smooth and creamy.

2. Add in the sifted potato starch and fine flour. Mix until well combined.

3. Roll them into little balls and flatten them slightly. Press down with a fork.

4. Bake in a preheated oven of 160C for 15-20mins.

(Different oven varies, I had used 180C for about 25mins)

My March Holidays

14-16 Mar 2012

This is quite a lengthy post... As my maid is actually away for her 1-month leave back home to Philippines, my hubby and I have to take leave to look after the 3 children. So in between this period of time, we went for a short trip to Genting Highlands for 3D2N stay.

Well, seriously, I have never really been to Genting Highlands... :-p Maybe I did, but that was many many years back in my early 20s, when my friends and I drove up there, but due to exhaustion, we just slept n rested in the room.... hahahah!!!!

Ok, here we are, our nice cosy room in Genting, but of course, I booked the highest room category as I need to have a bath tub in the room for my children... They are simply fascinated with the bath tub whenever we go for holiday... They just LOVED it!!! So this World Club room I booked was huge as you can see, and the bath tub was put into great use...:-D

Here is our great mountain view from our room, the clear and the misty cloudy view. The children enjoyed the view and the "breeze" too...Not much of rides for the children as some rides had a minimim height restrictions... well, too bad, next time perhaps... Overall, Genting Highlands is just simply filled with millions of people... We might go there again in September though... We will go to the mushroom farm and strawberry farm in our next Genting trip:-D

18 Mar 2012

My eldest daughter turns 7 years old on 21st Mar, so this year, we decided to let her have a small little birthday celebrations with her friends at home. We had hired an entertainer who does balloon sculpting and games for 1.5hrs. But it was more of games, which I prefer more balloon sculpting...^-^
I had made a black forest filling cake for Nic's birthday, plus about 20 chocolate cupcakes.

Hello Kitty Cake & Cupcakes

Nic wanted to have a Hello Kitty theme, and so, a very simple black forest cake. I bought those icing templates and I just piped the cream around the icing. Cute, isn't it. I bought these icing template online and it cost me 24pcs for S$12.00.

Hope Nic likes her birthday cake & cupcakes.

I guess my friend and I were more excited in the cake than the children as they were too engrossed with the balloons and games... :-p

There, time to sing a birthday song and cut the cake....

Her birthday presents from her friends...:-D

It had been a really noisy and messy day, especially without my maid around... hahahaha... Hubby and I had to clean up, luckily my girlfriend also helped out. Lesson learnt, it's better to have a party outside the home as I don't have to clean up the mess after the party... hmmm....

19 Mar 2012

This week start, hubby and myself are on a alternate day rotation to look after the girls. I haven't had time to go marketing as we just got back from Genting last Friday. And we headed off to Johor Bahru to do our nails while hubby when for his massage... And Sunday was Nic's birthday party.... So that's what I can dig out from my fridge....

This is my 1st decent "cooked" meal since 1 year ago when my maid had also went back during the same period last year.

Steamed fish with salted bean, fried eggs with sausages and stir-fried xiao bai cai with prawns.

Not too bad, Nat & Mimi finished their fair share of dinner:-D

21 Mar 2012

So today after I send Nat to school, I wanted to make cookies using my cute cookie cutter which I had bought last year. Yet to use and tried them out. So finally, today I get a chance to put them in good use... Cute right... Mimi was very interested with these Hello Kitty and Miffy cookies. She had also poked her tiny finger on the Miffy and said, "rabbit cry cry"....

Hello Kitty, Miffy & Doremon Cookies

I was trying to get Mimi's attention in the photo shots, but I guessed she was too restless and bored as I told her to let me take a picture of her before she ate her Hello Kitty cookie... :-p But I did managed to make her laughed in the end:-D

I made some cookies for my girlfriend's kids as well, all of them were very happy and finished the cookies in no time...!!!

For cookie recipe, please click HERE.

Hehehe.... I made steamed cake too... Using the sponge mix, and the previous recipe I tried. This time I use pomengrate tea syrup I got from Korea. Hmmm, I think I should had used more of the syrup as it wasn't that fruity as I had wanted it to be... But so far the testers had said it was good though...???

Pomengrate Steamed Cake

Texture of the steamed cake was smooth and yummy though:-D

For Steamed Cake recipe, please click HERE.

Dinner time...

We had planned to go for dinner outside as it was Nic's actual birthday today. But it started raining so heavily and plus Nic was still napping, so I decided not to go out for dinner. Luckily I had cooked the chicken soup in the afternoon... I quickly whipped up the broccoli and the seafood with salted fish fried rice. Mimi loves the fried rice very much and she had a big bowl of it...