The Baking Diaries since March 30th, 2011

Christmas mustache cookies!

Gingerbread + sugar cokies

makes 100 cookies in TOTAL

Sugar Cookie Recipe 

• 170g butter softened 
• 200g sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 310g flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

Beat butter with sugar until smooth, add egg and vanilla, beat. Stir in flour, baking powder. Form into dough, if too sticky add more flour until it’s firm enough to wrap into dough. Chill 1 hour. 200C. Roll it out, cut into shapes. Put on pan with baking paper Bake 6 minutes.

Gingerbread Cookie Recipe

200 g flour

200g butter softened

240g sugar

4 eggs

4tsp ginger

2tsp: nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon

Beat butter and sugar until smooth, add eggs, mix in flour and all the spices. Form into dough. If sticky, add flour until it’s not. Chill 1 hr. 180C. Roll out, cut shapes. Put on baking sheet on pan. Bake for 5 minutes

Royal icing:

3 whites

1/2tsp cream of tartar

480g icing sugar

food colouring

Beat whites with cream of tartar, then add icing sugar, beat until its really thick and really white. Test if its ready by using a spoon and taking a bit of the icinga nd putting it on a paper towel and refrigerating it, if it sets and hardens in 30 minutes, then its ready, if it still wont set, continue adding icing sugar until it does.

Decorate!

(Source: Flickr / bakingexplosion)

Christmas mustache cookies!

Gingerbread + sugar cokies

makes 100 cookies in TOTAL

Sugar Cookie Recipe 

• 170g butter softened 
• 200g sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 310g flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

Beat butter with sugar until smooth, add egg and vanilla, beat. Stir in flour, baking powder. Form into dough, if too sticky add more flour until it’s firm enough to wrap into dough. Chill 1 hour. 200C. Roll it out, cut into shapes. Put on pan with baking paper Bake 6 minutes.

Gingerbread Cookie Recipe

200 g flour

200g butter softened

240g sugar

4 eggs

4tsp ginger

2tsp: nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon

Beat butter and sugar until smooth, add eggs, mix in flour and all the spices. Form into dough. If sticky, add flour until it’s not. Chill 1 hr. 180C. Roll out, cut shapes. Put on baking sheet on pan. Bake for 5 minutes

Royal icing:

3 whites

1/2tsp cream of tartar

480g icing sugar

food colouring

Beat whites with cream of tartar, then add icing sugar, beat until its really thick and really white. Test if its ready by using a spoon and taking a bit of the icinga nd putting it on a paper towel and refrigerating it, if it sets and hardens in 30 minutes, then its ready, if it still wont set, continue adding icing sugar until it does.

Decorate!

(Source: Flickr / bakingexplosion)

Christmas mustache cookies!

Gingerbread + sugar cokies

you must need a mustache shaped cookie cutter though!

makes 100 cookies in TOTAL

Sugar Cookie Recipe 

• 170g butter softened 
• 200g sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 310g flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

Beat butter with sugar until smooth, add egg and vanilla, beat. Stir in flour, baking powder. Form into dough, if too sticky add more flour until it’s firm enough to wrap into dough. Chill 1 hour. 200C. Roll it out, cut into shapes. Put on pan with baking paper Bake 6 minutes.

Gingerbread Cookie Recipe

200 g flour

200g butter softened

240g sugar

4 eggs

4tsp ginger

2tsp: nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon

Beat butter and sugar until smooth, add eggs, mix in flour and all the spices. Form into dough. If sticky, add flour until it’s not. Chill 1 hr. 180C. Roll out, cut shapes. Put on baking sheet on pan. Bake for 5 minutes

For mustache cookies:

I melted dark chocolate and just spread it on. But you could always use royal icing and decorate if you want.

Royal icing:\

3 whites

1/2tsp cream of tartar

480g icing sugar

food colouring

Beat whites with cream of tartar, then add icing sugar, beat until its really thick and really white. Test if its ready by using a spoon and taking a bit of the icinga nd putting it on a paper towel and refrigerating it, if it sets and hardens in 30 minutes, then its ready, if it still wont set, continue adding icing sugar until it does.

Decorate!

(Source: Flickr / bakingexplosion)

Christmas mustache cookies!

Gingerbread + sugar cokies

makes 100 cookies in TOTAL

Sugar Cookie Recipe 

• 170g butter softened 
• 200g sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 310g flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

Beat butter with sugar until smooth, add egg and vanilla, beat. Stir in flour, baking powder. Form into dough, if too sticky add more flour until it’s firm enough to wrap into dough. Chill 1 hour. 200C. Roll it out, cut into shapes. Put on pan with baking paper Bake 6 minutes.

Gingerbread Cookie Recipe

200 g flour

200g butter softened

240g sugar

4 eggs

4tsp ginger

2tsp: nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon

Beat butter and sugar until smooth, add eggs, mix in flour and all the spices. Form into dough. If sticky, add flour until it’s not. Chill 1 hr. 180C. Roll out, cut shapes. Put on baking sheet on pan. Bake for 5 minutes

Royal icing:

3 whites

1/2tsp cream of tartar

480g icing sugar

food colouring

Beat whites with cream of tartar, then add icing sugar, beat until its really thick and really white. Test if its ready by using a spoon and taking a bit of the icinga nd putting it on a paper towel and refrigerating it, if it sets and hardens in 30 minutes, then its ready, if it still wont set, continue adding icing sugar until it does.

Decorate!

(Source: Flickr / bakingexplosion)

Viennese Cookies (no eggs!)

Recipe: this is the perfect amount, if u half it u end up with around 8 ^^

• 250g  butter softened
• 55g icing sugar (i used more around 65-70g)
• 225g plain flour
• 75g corn flour
• 300g dark chocolate
• pinch salt

180C

Cream butter until fluffy. Sieve in icing sugar. Beat

Sieve flour, cornflour, salt in, beat.

Put in piping bag with a nozzle attachment (star). Pipe onto non stick baking sheet.

Bake for 15min until golden brown.

Once cooled, melt chocolate (the methods of doing so- microwave, set over hot water, simmer over hot water in saucepan, or just put the bowl of chocolate in the oven which is still hot for a while). Dip half of the cookie into chocolate.

Let it sit until cooled and set

(Source: Flickr / bakingexplosion)

Viennese Cookies (no eggs!)

Recipe: this is the perfect amount, if u half it u end up with around 8 ^^

• 250g  butter softened
• 55g icing sugar (i used more around 65-70g)
• 225g plain flour
• 75g corn flour
• 300g dark chocolate
• pinch salt

180C

Cream butter until fluffy. Sieve in icing sugar. Beat

Sieve flour, cornflour, salt in, beat.

Put in piping bag with a nozzle attachment (star). Pipe onto non stick baking sheet.

Bake for 15min until golden brown.

Once cooled, melt chocolate (the methods of doing so- microwave, set over hot water, simmer over hot water in saucepan, or just put the bowl of chocolate in the oven which is still hot for a while). Dip half of the cookie into chocolate.

Let it sit until cooled and set

(Source: Flickr / bakingexplosion)

banana chocolate chip cookies

Recipe: makes 38 mini cookies

• 2 sticks softened butter
• 3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 tsp pure vanilla
• 2tsp banana extract
• 3 1/2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 10 oz bag chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream butter and sugars together with a mixer until well combined. Beat in eggs and vanilla. 

In a separate bowl mix the flour, salt and baking soda. Slowly add to wet ingredients along with chocolate chips until just combined. Using a cookie scoop take one scoop of cookie dough and place on top of an Oreo Cookie. Take another scoop of dough and place on bottom of Oreo cookie. Seal edges together by pressing and cupping in hand until Oreo cookie is enclosed with dough. Place onto a parchment or silpat lined baking sheet and bake cookies 9-13 minutes or until golden brown. Let cool for 5 minutes before transferring to cooling rack. 

Banana Nut Cookies

226g butter softened

1c brown sugar 

1/3c sugar

1tsp baking soda

1 1/3c flour

1 egg

pinch salt

3/4tsp banana extract

walnuts, pistachios, raisins, chocolate chips-(classic is walnuts, but raisins and choc chips make nice additions, pistachios can be replacement for walnuts)

170C

Mix baking soda, flour, salt

Beat butter until creamy, add sugar, beat. Add egg, banana extract.

Beat in flour mixture slowly. It will be gooey, but when you touch it it should not stick. Fold in nuts/choc chips/raisins.

Spoon onto pan (it will expand) so around diameter of (connect your thumb and first finger tgt, like your nails touch each other, around that diameter)

around 1inch diameter basically

Bake 22min. Do not take out when its half baked, it will only be cakeish. Take out when its actually slightly hard. Then flip cookies over, and put them back in oven (which is offed and cooling down) so that the base is on top, because base should still be slightly soft. For 10 min.

what i like to call the oreo machinator.

oreo stuffed cookies and cream cupcake

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Recipe: makes one dozen

33g cocoa powder

68ml hot water

135g all purpose flour

3/8tsp baking soda

3/8 tsp baking powder

128g butter at room temperature

158g caster sugar

1 ½ egg

½ tbsp vanilla

95ml sour cream

8 oreos roughly crushed into bits

12 oreos

180C.

1.      Combine butter and sugar in saucepan over low heat until melted. Remove from heat and transfer to bowl.

2.      Beat mixture until cooled, around 4-5 minutes, add eggs and vanilla, beat until combined.

3.      Add 1/3 of the flour, and alternate with sour cream, ending with flour.

4.      Beat in chocolate paste.

5.      Divide mixture into 12 cupcake liners until half full, add one oreo to centre, spoon in remaining until ¾ full. Bake for 30 minutes. Take out and cool.

Frosting:

175g butter at room temperature

1tsp vanilla

80g icing sugar, sifted

12 oreos finely crushed

Beat butter until smooth, sift in icing sugar again, beat in vanilla.

Fold in very finely crushed oreos.

Sugar Cookies +gingerbread cookies with royal icing

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Sugar Cookie Recipe 

• 1/2 cup butter, softened salted
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder

Beat butter with sugar until smooth, add egg and vanilla, beat. Stir in flour, baking powder. Form into dough, if too sticky add more flour until it’s firm enough to wrap into dough. Chill 1 hour. 200C. Roll it out, cut into shapes. Put on pan with baking paper Bake 10 minutes.

Gingerbread Cookie Recipe

100g flour

100g butter softened

120g sugar

2 eggs

2tsp ginger

1tsp: nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon

Beat butter and sugar until smooth, add eggs, mix in flour and all the spices. Form into dough. If sticky, add flour until it’s not. Chill 1 hr. 180C. Roll out, cut shapes. Put on baking sheet on pan. Bake for 10 minutes

Royal Icing Recipe

2 egg whites

1tsp lemon juice

3 cups icing sugar sifted

food colouring

Beat whites with lemon juice until foamy, add icing sugar, beat until smooth.

For the outlining icing (optional it makes it easier to flood the centre with icing)= keep beating until it’s thick, like soft/stiff peaks for cream

For flooding icing: the icing that you fill the cookie cut out with, just beat until it’s ribbon like, very flowy and liquidy.

Add desired food colouring.

Pipe! it hardens in around 30 minute room temperature, 15 minutes refrigerator.

sugar and gingerbread cookies

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Sugar Cookie Recipe 

• 1/2 cup butter, softened salted
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder

Beat butter with sugar until smooth, add egg and vanilla, beat. Stir in flour, baking powder. Form into dough, if too sticky add more flour until it’s firm enough to wrap into dough. Chill 1 hour. 200C. Roll it out, cut into shapes. Put on pan with baking paper Bake 10 minutes.

Gingerbread Cookie Recipe

100g flour

100g butter softened

120g sugar

2 eggs

2tsp ginger

1tsp: nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon

Beat butter and sugar until smooth, add eggs, mix in flour and all the spices. Form into dough. If sticky, add flour until it’s not. Chill 1 hr. 180C. Roll out, cut shapes. Put on baking sheet on pan. Bake for 10 minutes

Sugar Cookies +gingerbread cookies with royal icing

Credits!

Sugar Cookie Recipe 

• 1/2 cup butter, softened salted
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder

Beat butter with sugar until smooth, add egg and vanilla, beat. Stir in flour, baking powder. Form into dough, if too sticky add more flour until it’s firm enough to wrap into dough. Chill 1 hour. 200C. Roll it out, cut into shapes. Put on pan with baking paper Bake 10 minutes.

Gingerbread Cookie Recipe

100g flour

100g butter softened

120g sugar

2 eggs

2tsp ginger

1tsp: nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon

Beat butter and sugar until smooth, add eggs, mix in flour and all the spices. Form into dough. If sticky, add flour until it’s not. Chill 1 hr. 180C. Roll out, cut shapes. Put on baking sheet on pan. Bake for 10 minutes

Royal Icing Recipe

2 egg whites

1tsp lemon juice

3 cups icing sugar sifted

food colouring

Beat whites with lemon juice until foamy, add icing sugar, beat until smooth.

For the outlining icing (optional it makes it easier to flood the centre with icing)= keep beating until it’s thick, like soft/stiff peaks for cream

For flooding icing: the icing that you fill the cookie cut out with, just beat until it’s ribbon like, very flowy and liquidy.

Add desired food colouring.

Pipe! it hardens in around 30 minute room temperature, 15 minutes refrigerator.

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oreo stuffed chocolate chip cookies

chewy oreo stuffed chocolate chip cookies

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