Mummy bought an oven; a cheap, simple & easy to use oven! So she decided to bake cookies... she got the receipe from Aunty S.
This is my 1st baking, I helped mummy to measure the cake flour, sugar, then help to pour the ingredients into the mixer.. (steps are easy) Mummy told me the last time she baked was during her school times (20+ yrs ago)...
Since both of us are green horn, we followed the steps according to the receipe, and yet still 手忙脚乱, the whole place were messy; flour & cookie cutter all over the table.... :p I'm having fun molding the dough. @(^ . *)@
1st tray out from the oven was terrible ! mostly scorched as the buttom of the cookies all burned, temperature control was no bad.... 2nd & 3rd tray was slightly better... Butter Cookies 成功 !
Butter cookies recipe (fr Aunty S)
Ingredients: (makes about 36 pieces)
100g butter, softened at room temperature
80g caster sugar
1 egg yolk
180g cake flour
20g corn flour
Method:
1. Sift cake flour and corn flour together and set aside. Line baking tray with parchment paper, set aside.
2. With an electric mixer, add in sugar to the butter in 2 ~3 additions and cream till the mixture turns pale and fluffy.
3. Add in egg yolk and mix well.
4. Add sifted flour mixture in 2 ~ 3 additions, stir with a spatula to form a soft dough.
5. Place dough in a plastic bag and flatten with rolling pin.
6. Refrigerate the dough for about half an hour.
7. Remove dough from fridge. Roll out dough on slightly floured work surface and cut out with slightly floured cookie cutters. If the dough appears to be a little to hard and breaks into pieces while rolling, leave it at room temperature for a few minutes. The dough will soften up and can be rolled easily.
8. Bake at pre-heated oven at 175 degC for 15 ~ 20mins.
9. Let cool and store in air-tight container.
Using the spatula to fold in the cake flour
1st tray out from the oven... mostly scorched
the bottom of the cookies all burned..
2nd try out of the oven, much better.....
