Crispy, light and melt-in-mouth coffee cocoa cookies for coffee lovers. This small-portion recipe only baked15 small coffee-bean-alike cookies.

If they are kept in an air-tight container, they can keep the crispiness and flavour for more than a month.

 

Yield: about 15 pieces of cookies

Cookie dough weight: 102g

Ingredients

A

2g instant coffee powder, about 1 tsp

1/4 tsp raw sugar

5g very hot water

B

30g unsalted butter

16g icing sugar

C

25g top flour

25g potato starch

2g milk powder

4g cocoa powder

Directions

1. Under Ingredient A, heat some water in a small pan till boiling, and pour about 5g into the mixture of instant coffee powder and raw sugar. 

Stir to dissolve the instant coffee powder and raw sugar into smooth mixture.

2. This step is to reduce the water content and thicken the coffee solution.

Pour the coffee mixture back to the warm pan,

stir to thicken the coffee solution.

Pour the coffee solution into a small container. I collected about 6g of coffee solution. Set aside.

3. Mix Ingredient C in a small mixing bowl. Set aside.

4. Blend Ingredient B using a small whisk till pale and light

5. Mix in Ingredient A, coffee solution, from Step 2.

6. Gradually fold in Ingredient C from Step 3, into a smooth dough.

Cover and let it rest for 20 minutes.

7. Divide the dough into about 15 portions, each weigh 7g.

8. Shape the cookie dough into an oval shape like a grape, and place over a baking tray lined with parchment paper.

Use the round corner of a dough scraper to imprint a shallow groove along the center of the oval dough to resemble a coffee bean.

9. Keep the shaped cookie dough in the fridge for about 5 minutes.

10. Bake in an oven toaster at 180℃ for 12 minutes. Lower the temperature to 150℃ for about 3 minutes. Turn off the oven and let the cookies sit for about 5 minutes to dry the cookies.

11. Let the cookies cool down before keeping in an airtight container. Enjoy 😋

Garden Snake German Cookie

A seriously overdue post - dragged till Year of Horse, then realised I have not posted my Year of Snake cookies. I could not leave out my only "masterpiece" of cookie from my blog 😅 I could only manage to bake 8 small snakes design butter cookies, because they were very time consuming and intricate to handle.

Love these colourful and delicious cookies, even just by looking at the photos😋 

Video showing the making of the 🐍 butter cookies

{Ingredients}

40g unsalted butter. softened

pinch of low-sodium salt

16g icing sugar

32g top flour/cake flour

32g potato starch

2g milk powder/plain flour

Cream butter, salt and icing sugar till light. Combine the remaining dry ingredients into a smooth paste.

🔆 rock base

50% of dough - add pandan powder and bamboo charcoal powder

🔆 snake

20% dough - add cocoa powder

20% dough - add yellow food gel

🔆 grass and flowers

5% dough - add green food gel as grass

5% dough- add red food gel as flowers 🌷 

The remaining steps are shown in the video.

Bake at 150°C for 13 to 15 minutes 😃