I finally had time to start my CNY baking for the year! Been scanning through all the blogs for some inspiration and saw that German Butter Cookies were really popular in the blogosphere! Hmmm butter cookies aren't really my cup of tea so I opted for one of my all time favourites - Almond Cookies instead. I chose Jess' recipe for these and they baked up wonderfully well! The dough was a cinch to make and all I had to do was to roll them into balls, top with almond bits and bake! What a breeze!
And these were what I got in slightly under 2 hours :).
Cute little almond cookies! I wish I'd invested in prettier cups to hold these, but decided to curb my spending and use what I have instead...so brown cups will have to do!
Besides these Almond Cookies, which were very very delicious and not overly sweet, I also made the very popular Almond Crisps from last year's recipe. These were alot more tedious as I had to repeatedly spread the batter onto the baking sheet, bake and remove them. By the end of 3 hours, I was exhausted! However, these cookies are so delicious I'm pretty sure I'll make them again and again.
Now that I'm done with my first batch of CNY cookies, I'm motivated to do up the rest! 4 more varieties to go and a kueh lapis too if I'm in the mood :). I'm also submitting this to Aspiring Bakers #3 My Favorite CNY Cookie (Jan 2011). The details can be found here.
Happy CNY Baking!
Almond Cookies
adapted from J3ss KitchenIngredients:
150g self raising flour
60g icing sugar
80g ground almond
80g diced almonds
100g corn oil
1/2 tsp almond essence
Almond bits for decoration
Preparation:
1. Sift together flour and icing sugar, add in ground almond and diced almonds, mix well.
2. Mix almond essence into corn oil and stir well.
3. Mix both ingredients together to form a soft dough. (the dough will come together when you roll them)
4. Shape into small round balls and place into small paper casing and press it slightly.
5. Decorate with toppings of your choice and bake in a preheated oven at 170°C for 15-20mins or until slightly brown.
6. Cool completely on wire rack before storing into airtight containers.
Yields approximately 50 cookies.
Nice bake, Allie. This is one of my favourite cookies for CNY, going to bake this again soon.
ReplyDeleteAllie glad you love them! yours are very pretty =)
ReplyDeleteThese cookies are lovely, I would like to try them :)
ReplyDeletelooks really nice! (: i've tried them and they are really YUMMY!! (: (: look forward to more baking from you (:
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Nice bakes. Did u get the nice container from Sun Lik?
ReplyDelete@Min: Haha I'm going to bake a second batch too. These are just too tempting!
ReplyDelete@Jess: Thanks for sharing the recipe! I love it :)
@Anncoo: Please do :). Many bloggers have tried and loved them. I'm sure you will too :)
@Sweetylicious: Cool! That makes the two of us now :)
@Sean: 哈哈. 这款饼干真的很好吃! 我已经把食谱电邮给你了:).
@Irene: Haven't seen you in awhile! Thanks you're sharp! Yes I got them from Sun Lik :). Drop me a note with your new blog address k?