Recipe For Peanut Butter Cookies

Formed cookies have a stiffer dough than drop and pressed cookies. The dough can be prepared beforehand, rolled in greaseproof paper and stored in the refrigerator. Slice the dough when you are going to bake it. The dough can be shaped into balls, flattened, rolled in chopped nuts, sprinkled with sugar or cut to different figures as desired.

Recipe for Peanut Butter Cookies

Ingredients :

• 112g butter
• 112g crunchy peanut butter
• 120g brown sugar
• 1/2 teaspoons vanilla essence
• 1 egg
• 170g plain flour
• 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• castor sugar for dipping

Method :

1. Sift the plain flour. Then re-sift the flour with the bicarbonate of soda. Set aside.
2. Beat butter, peanut butter, vanilla essence, sugar and salt until fluffy. Add the egg and beat well. Lastly, add in the flour.
3. Shape the dough into small balls and place about 4 cm apart on a greased baking sheet. Dip a fork into a dish of castor sugar and flatten the balls with the fork.
4. Bake for about 10 minutes in a moderate oven.

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Recipe For Almond Ring Cookies

Pressed cookies are made by pushing the dough through a cookie press. The dough is rather soft. Here is a recipe that shapes the cookie to a ring using a cookie press.

Recipe for Almond Ring Cookies

Ingredients :

• 225g plain flour



• 1/2 teaspoons baking powder



• 170g butter



• 85g castor sugar



• 30g ground almonds



• Small pinch of salt



• 2 tablespoons beaten egg



• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence

Method :

1. Sift the plain flour. Then re-sift the flour with the baking powder. Mix in the ground almonds and set them aside.



2. Beat butter, castor sugar and salt until light and fluffy.



3. Add the egg and continue beating. Add the vanilla essence. Slowly add the flour and ground almonds, mixing thoroughly. Press this soft dough through a cookie press. You may use a star pattern in the cookie press. Pipe small rings of dough onto a lightly greased baking sheet.



4. Bake in a moderate oven for about 10 minutes until golden brown. Be careful not to over bake the cookies. These cookies may turn too brown quickly.

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Recipe For Walnut Chocolate Chip Cookies

This is a recipe of 'drop cookies'. The dough is stiffer and has more butter or liquid than other types of cookie dough. Teaspoonfuls of batter are dropped onto the baking sheet. Leave ample space between cookies as they spread during baking.

Recipe for Walnut Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients :

• 125g plain flour
• 1/2 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
• 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 112g butter
• 100g brown sugar
• 1/2 teaspoons vanilla essence
• 1/4 teaspoons water
• 1 egg
• 1 cup chocolate chips
• 1/2 cups walnuts, coarsely chopped

Method :

1. Sift the flour. Re-sift the flour with the bicarbonate of soda.
2. Mix in the nuts and chocolate chips.
3. In another mixing bowl, beat the butter, sugar, vanilla essence, salt and water till fluffy. Add the egg and beat well.
4. Add the flour, chocolate chips, walnuts and mix thoroughly.
5. Drop small teaspoonfuls onto a lightly greased baking sheet.
6. Bake in moderate oven for about 10 minutes.

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Cookies For The Festive Season

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Nothing beats the smell of freshly baked cookies from the oven in the festive season. Cookies are simple to make. As long as you get the measurements right and oven temperatures right, your cookies are likely to turn out right.

There are basically four types of cookies.

1. Drop cookies
2. Pressed cookies
3. Formed cookies
4. Rolled cookies

Use tins with low sides for baking cookies. Line the tin with cookie sheet, grease the sheet with a thin layer of oil for easy removal of baked cookies.

The oven is too hot if your cookies brown too quickly. The cookies can turn out raw in the centre and not crisp as a result of the high heat. A moderate oven gives crisp cookies with a good colour. An oven that is too slow gives tough cookies. When the cookies are baked, cool them on a wire tray and store in airtight containers.

I will share some recipes for the four types of cookies in my next posts.

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