Dragon Butter Cookies

Yes, now is into the first month of the Snake Year. However, I still haven't post the Dragon Year design butter cookies. Seriously overdue 😦 I think I should not leave this out of the zodiac design butter cookies series, so I dug deep into the photo album and my pile of old recipes to put it in place😉

Ingredients

40g unsalted butter, softened

16g icing sugar

pinch of low-sodium salt

32g top flour

32g potato starch

2g milk powder

2g cocoa powder

a small amount of bamboo charcoal powder

1/2 tsp pandan powder

1/4 tsp pandan powder

20 pcs pearl sugar

Directions

1. Cream butter then followed by salt and icing sugar. 

Cream till reaching a light texture.

2. Sieve the mixture of top flour, potato starch and milk powder.

Fold till form into a soft dough.

3. Take about 10g of the butter cookie dough to mix with 2g of cocoa powder. 

Mix into a smooth chocolate cookie dough, about 12g.

4. Mix 5g of butter cookie dough with a small amount of bamboo charcoal powder.

Mix into a smooth charcoal cookie dough, about 7g.

5. Mix the remaining butter cookie dough with about 1/2 tsp of pandan powder.

Mix into a smooth pandan cookie dough, about 90g.

6. Take about 15g pandan cookie dough and mix with 1/4 tsp of pandan powder.

Mix into darker pandan cookie dough, about 15g.

7. Wrap all the different cookie dough with cling wrap. Rest for about 15 to 30 minutes. Or, keep in the fridge till you are ready to shape. Just thaw the dough for about 30 to 60 minutes before shaping.

8. Divide the 15g dark pandan cookie dough into 20 portions. Shape into 10 pairs of fins.

9. Divide the cocoa cookie dough and bamboo charcoal cookie dough into 20 portions each.

Shape the cocoa cookie dough into 10 pairs of horns. 

Shape bamboo charcoal cookie dough into10 pairs of eyes. Insert of small piece of pearl sugar into each bamboo charcoal cookie eye.

Divide the 90g pandan cookie dough into 10 portions, and shape into 10 balls.

10. Bake the horns, eyes, and fins at 150℃ for about 5 to 8 minutes, to hardened the cookie to facilitate shaping later.

11. Take a pandan cookie ball, and cut out a small portion of it.

Divide into 4 small balls, These would be use to shape the eye balls and nostrils of the dragon.

Ready to assemble 👌

Shaping completed. Yay 😀✌

Arrange the shaped dough over a baking tray lined with parchment paper.

12. Bake at middle rack of a preheated oven at 150℃ for about 13 to 15 minutes. Let the cookies rest in the oven for about 3 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.

Job done! Yeah 😀✌

Flavourful Golden Quail Egg

WARNING: these flavourful golden quail eggs can be addictive ‼️‼️ Once you start to take one, you can’t stop at one 😋😋

This simple to prepare dish is done using cold ingredients. Best serve as an appetiser to your guests while they are patiently waiting for the main dishes to be served 🍲🍛🍤🥗

Serve the flavourful quail eggs with a long slice of Japanese cucumber added a crunchy texture to the creamy texture of the eggs. The cucumber-quail egg stick also symbolised the appearance of 2025 zodiac sign - the snake 🐍

Y2025 zodiac decoration at Chinatown 

Working video:

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Ingredients

135g cooked quail eggs

You can use cooked quail eggs or cook from raw ones.

Marinade
20g light soya sauce, low-salt
15g Woh Hup Oyster Sauce Extra Flavour
12g raw sugar
10g freshly roasted sesame seeds
120g drinking water

14g onion , chopped finely
20g garlic, chopped finely
15g red chilli, chopped finely 
12g green chilli, chopped finely 
3g coriander stem, chopped finely
1 pc red chilli padi, give a few slits *
1g low-sodium salt, optional

* increase the quantity of the chilli padi if you prefer to spicier taste.

Directions

1. Combine all the ingredients in the marinade together in a big bowl. Add salt as needed.

2. Add cooked quail eggs to the marinade and mix well. 

3. Transfer to a mason jar with lid.

Let the quail eggs marinate for at least 2 hours in the fridge. A longer marinating period will help to infuse a more intense flavourful to the quail eggs.

4. Serve it cold or in room temperature 😋

If you would like to have a snake-like cocktail, you can "pin" a long slice of Japanese cucumber to the broader base of the quail egg.