Savoury Spicy Dried Shrimp Cookie

It's DOUBLE cookie recipe galore today!! lolz

Yes you can really taste the flavour of the shrimps!
A good change from the usual 'sweet' cookies. :)

Ingredients (Recipe adapted from Yum-Yum books)
200g butter
80g icing sugar
1/4 tsp salt
2 cloves garlic, crushed
1 large egg
300g plain flour
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
20g grated parmesan cheese
10g curry powder
50g dried shrimp (chopped and fried in oiless wok)
10g deep fried crispy shallot

Method:

1. Cream butter, sugar and salt until light and fluffy.

2. Slowly beat in egg.

3. Fold in flour, baking powder and baking soda.

4. Stir in rest of ingredients into a soft dough.

5. Roll into small balls and arrange on lined baking tray.

6. Flatten lightly with a mallet (usually used to tenderise meat).

7. Bake in preheated oven at 180C degrees for 12-15 min or until light golden brown.

8. Cool before storing into airtight jars.

Adding this to the festive CNY bakes @ Aspiring Bakers CNY favourites.

Wishing everyone again Gong Hei Fatt Choy.

Lemon Butter Bunnies that hopped in late last night

It was a mad rush - almost like the Mad Hatter Rabbit. But am pretty pleased that I FINALLY have some cute bunny rabbits around for CNY as planned.

Adapated recipe from dailydelicious. Its a good dough, perfect base for sugar cookies and eggless too!!

Ingredients (yields approx. 46 bunny cookies)

200g butter, room temperature
pinch salt
80g icing sugar (if you want sweeter, you may increase it by another 20g)
240g all purpose flour, sieved
90g corn flour
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp lemon paste (or can substitute with 2 tbsp lemon juice)
zest of 1 lemon

Method:

1. Cream butter, sugar and salt until light and fluffy.
2. Mix in lemon paste and vanilla extract.
3. Fold in flour and lemon zest and knead lightly until you get a nice pliable dough.
4. Cover and rest dough in fridge for 20 min.
5. Roll out and cut out with cookie cutters.

*Side track note - initially my cookie cutters were giving me some angst since the dough refuse to dislodge itself from the mould (shy probably?). After a few attempts, decided the best way was to make a light imprint and break out the shape. Thus requiring more invovled attention and time compared to other cookie cutters I normally use.

6. Bake in pre-heated oven at 160C degrees for 15 min or until turning slightly brown at the edges.

Am gonna join in some festive CNY baking fun by submitting and sharing this @ Aspiring Bakers CNY favourites

So if you are still wondering what to bake for CNY, do check out more on the recipes and festive goodies there.