Honey Holiday Cookies

School’s out for year this week for Master Prince which got me started baking some holiday cookies to share with his classmates. There will be a reshuffle and MP will not be in the same class as his current classmates next year. Since he is quite a sociable person, he doesn’t seem too bothered about this!

Anyway, didn’t really need a reason but been wanting to try out Happy Flour’s honey cookies for sometime now.


Needless to say MP was all quick and rather excited to help me....only because he wanted to eat the accessories, ie M&M buttons and the silver ball eyes, etc. Ha ha

Adapted the recipe a little and the dough quantity yield about 50 small honey men for me (depends on your thickness and size of cookie cutter).

Ingredients
165g unsalted butter, room temperature
55g caster sugar
40g organic honey
90g Self Raising Flour
180g All Purpose Floor
16g corn flour
Pinch of salt

Method

1. Shift flours and set aside.
2. Cream butter, salt sugar and honey until light and fluffy. Add 1 tsp of vanilla essence (optional).
3. Fold in flour to butter mixture to form a soft dough.
4. Rest dough in refrigerator for about 15 min.
5. Pre-heat oven to 150 degrees.
6. Roll out dough between two sheets of parchment paper and cut out desired shape with cookie cutter and decorate as desired (optional).
7. Bake cookies in preheated oven for 15 min until golden brown.
8. Cool on wire rack before storing into air-tight containers.

For easier distribution, I packed the men separately in plastic bags. My sealer wasn't working so resorted to stapling the bag together, sigh. Since MP gave the thumbs up I'm sure his friends will also enjoy them :) This is a great cookie to make especially for kids who do not like the taste/smell of 'spices'.

Master Prince came back reporting that they were well received by his friends.....except that it became a little chaotic for him when some choosy friends wanted to exchange because they did not like a particular coloured given or the M&M were cracked - HELLO...just enjoy, they are all the same lah - perhaps the colour red, green orange, yellow and brown do taste different (if they only knew it wasn't flavoured)!! Ha ha ha......kids!

Bench notes - Found it easier to handle the dough in smaller batches as it was a little 'soft' transferring the cut dough to the tray. Perhaps I should have floured my cutters more or refridgerated the dough longer.