Cartoon Butter Cookies

Ingredients 

Butter dough
80 g butter (unsalted)(soften at room temp)
40g icing sugar
10g fresh milk
½ tsp vanilla essence
130g cake flour
40g potato starch

 

Steps:
1. Cream the butter and icing sugar until pale in colour.
2. Add in milk and vanilla essence. Mix well.
3. Add in the cake flour and potato starch, mix to form a dough.
4. Cling wrap and put the dough in the fridge for 30 minutes.
 

Painting paste (draw eyes and brows)
1 tsp butter dough
1 tsp cocoa powder
some drinking water or milk
1 small piping bag 

Steps:

1. Mix the butter dough, cocoa powder, water/milk to form a thick paste.
2. Transfer the paste into a piping bag.
 

Cookies

1. Use food colouring gel to make the dough into the colour you want.
2. Use a measuring soon (1 tsp size) to scoop the dough.
It should be the size of dough that is in the spoon, no overflow on top the spoon.
3. Add one M&M chocolate in the middle of the dough and roll the dough between your palms to shape into a ball.
4. Take a bit of dough to roll into round balls to make the ears.
5. Use a small brush and dip into egg white to stick the ears onto the main ball.
6. Use the painting paste to draw the eyes and brows.
7. Repeat the steps to make more characters.
8. Put the cookies on the tray and bake for about 20 min at 120 degree.
(Check the bottom of the cookie, if see slight brown, means is cooked)

 

Cheese Tart

This recipe can make 6 tarts.

Ingredients:

Crust

50g unsalted butter
12g caster sugar
75g plain flour
1/2 egg (beaten)

 

Cheese filling
170g cream cheese
15g unsalted butter
1/2tsp vanilla essence
60g plain yogurt
18g caster sugar
1 egg white

Egg wash

1 egg yolk

 

Steps for Cheese filling:

1. Put cream cheese, butter and sugar into the pot and cook until all well mixed and smooth. Keep stirring to ensure no lumps.

2. Take the pot away from fire. Stir in the egg white and vanilla essence.

3. On the fire, continue to stir the mixture until thicken.

4. Once the mixture is of the thickness you want, keep in the fridge for 2 to 3 hours.

 

Steps for Crust:

1. Make sure butter is soften after leaving at room temperature.

2. Add sugar and mix with butter until light yellow.

3. Add in the flour and mix well.

4. Add in half an egg and mix, to get a dough. (Do not overmix)

5. Put the dough in the fridge for at least 30 minutes.

 

Assembly stage:

1. Divide the dough into 6 equal portions.

2. Press the dough into the tart moulds.

3. Put them in the fridge for at least 30 minutes.

4. Preheat Oven.

5. Bake the crust for about 20 min at 180 degree (depend on your oven).

6. Take out from oven and cool the crust.

7. Take the cheese filling out from fridge.

8. Fill up to the top of the crust with the cheese filling.

9. Use a brush to do egg wash on the cheese filling.

10. Bake the cheese tarts for about 5 to 8 min at 230 degree.

 

*if overmix when making the crust, the crust will be hard and dry.

*if cheese mixture is watery, the tart will look flat like egg tart. if mixture is too thick, the texture of the cheese will be very hard.

*if bake too long, the cheese filling will be harder, not gooey.