I was supposed to post this recipe up a few weeks ago but somehow, time got away with me and I never did get around to it. So, now that I have some time to spare, I better get to it before I forget again and get distracted by something else.
These are great with coffee, milo, hot chocolate, milk or just as it is! The great things about these cookies are that it’s easy to bake, use very few ingredients and it’s vegetarian!
You first beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
Then you add in plain flour and use your hands to mix it in and knead into a smooth dough.
Then you roll it into a log / sausage shape. Place on a sheet of grease proof paper and sprinkle some brown sugar on the paper. Roll the dough over the sugar. Alternatively, you can use icing sugar, cinnamon powder, ground almonds, chopped peanuts or anything you fancy. You can then shape the log into squarish shape or even triangular, up to you.
Then you wrap it up and put it into the fridge to chill till firm. That should be about 30 minutes or so. In fact, you can make this and then keep it in the fridge till you are free to bake it.
Once the dough is firm, remove from fridge, and cut it into thick slices. Then, you can decorate it with chocolate chips, sugared hearts or leave it plain. Bake it for about 20 minutes at 160°C or till it turns brown at the edges. Remove from oven, leave to cool and then keep in air tight container. Keeps well for a week or so.
When I bake it, I shaped it into triangular shape and then after cutting it, I decorated it with sugared hearts. So pretty and nice to serve to guests. Or..
Use chocolate chips to press into the slices before baking and it will turn out just as nice. See?
The best thing about these cookies is that you can also add other ingredients like chocolate chips, chopped nuts, chopped dried fruits, raisins and various flavouring to jazz it up if you don’t want it to be too plain.
Here’s the recipe:
Crunchy Butter Cookies (vegetarian)
Ingredients
1/2 cup superfine sugar (or brown sugar if you like)
3/4 cup butter, softened and diced
1 tsp vanilla essence
2 1/2 cup plain flour
Instructions
1. Beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add in the vanilla essence.
2. Add the flour and knead into a smooth dough. If you don’t want it to be too plain, you can add chocolate chips or chopped nuts or chopped dates or candied cherries or grated lemon rind or ground cinnamon or almond essence, whatever you fancy.
3.Then roll it into a sausage shape. You can either pat the sides to make it a square log or a triangular log.
4. Sprinkle some brown sugar on a greaseproof paper and then roll the dough over it. Wrap up the dough and refrigerate it till firm (about 30 mins).
5. Remove from fridge, cut into thick slices. You can also decorate the slices with sugared hearts or chocolate chips.
6. Preheat oven to 160°C and bake the cookies for about 20 mins or until it browned at the edges.
If you want it to be less sweet, you can also reduce the amount of sugar to 1/4 cup or use molasses for a healthier option.
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