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)