Hey people! yup im back with more recipes to share:) sorry have been lazy to post them up this few days. Here's...


Soft Sugar Cookies Recipe

Ingredients:

2 eggs

½ cup vegetable oil / melted butter if you want a buttery flavour

3 tsp of vanilla essence

1/3 cup of sugar (initial recipe calls for ¾ cups of sugar, but after trying out, I think 1/3 cup is enough, since you will be coating it with sugar too)

2¼-2½ cups of flour (initially 2 cups, but the batter was way too soft to work with)

3 tbsp cornflour

2 tsp baking powder/soda

25g milk powder

½ tsp salt



Baking Time!

1. Beat eggs, vanilla essence, sugar, salt and oil together.





















2. In another bowl, mix flour and baking powder together

3. Sift in the flour+baking powder bit by bit, folding them into the mixture.

4. Sift in the milk powder too



5. Mix well (add more flour if needed, so that its not too watery or soft). Put in fridge for about 15-20mins.


6. Take dough out of fridge, it should have hardened abit so that its easier to work with.

Prepare a plate of sugar and a plate of flour.

Preheat oven at 180degreesC, timing up to you, so long as the oven is heated all e way till you pop the tray of cookies in^^

Flour both hands before working with the dough. Pinch off some dough with floured hands and roll it into a ball. Coat half of the ball with sugar before placing it onto baking pan (lined with non-stick baking paper or you may just grease with butter) Do note that the side with sugar should not be in contact with the pan, or it might burn the cookies.

Repeat steps until you get a tray of cookies. DO NOT put them too close cos they expand really quite abit, leave space for them to grow!:) Also, every ball of dough have to be rolled on spot before popping the tray into oven, not beforehand yup.


7. Pop them into the oven for about 10mins until golden brown. If you prefer softer texture, you can take them out with tinge of browness. lol i dunno what im talking. yup, just rmb, the browner the crispier. So, just try them out yup, for me, the oven always give me uneven heating on different corners, so i either take them out and turn them another way round before popping them back into oven to brown the other side, or I choose to have different texture cookies :)

Note that they really grow well, so leave them space if not you will get a huge piece of cookie all stuck together and when you break them apart it wont look nice...




 






















8. This is an optional step. I just like my cookies to be pretty, so yup I used cookie cutter to cut out pieces of cheese and pop them back into the oven for about 2mins or so,just enough to melt the cheese so that it sticks to the cookie. Do not do this step if your cookies are already very brown as the cookies will still continue to brown while the cheese melts.

Alternatively, you can add anything in step 6. You may like to wrap cheese chunks into the cookie or chocolate chips so that chocolate will ooze out (but if you are wrapping choc chips, pls reduce the sugar you mix into the dough) You may also like to mix cinnamon powder into your sugar before coating your cookies so you get cinnamon sugar cookies, or you may want to coat your cookies with chocolate sprinkles or just leave them plain and decorate with royal icing? Whatever you like! :D


Thats all folks! Happy baking! ^^

 





“Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.” ― Craig Claiborne