Sweet Decadenze

The Hubby couldn’t wait for me to use some of the cute Disney cookie moulds I acquired recently, so he requested for some cookies to bring to work.  And as usual, I happily obliged; I’m usually more than happy to do some baking (when I’m not busy with other things, that is) so long as food will not be wasted.

It wasn’t difficult looking for a suitable recipe since such cookie cutters are such a rage recently!  Finally, I settled on the recipe found on Happy Home Baking, a blog maintained by a SAHM to two young boys.  Her blog is a rather enjoyable read, and she comes across as a very friendly person with no pretentious air, unlike some other blogs I’ve come across.

Quite expectedly, The Hubby wanted me to use the Pooh and Piglet moulds; those are my favourite too, apart from Chip ‘N’ Dale.

Simple Butter Cookies
180g cake flour
20g corn flour
100g butter, room temperature
80g caster sugar
1 egg yolk

1. Sift together flours in a medium bowl.  Set aside.
2. In a large bowl, add the sugar to the butter in 3 additions and beat till light and fluffy.
3. Beat in egg until combined.
4. Add in the flour mixture in 3 additions and stir with a spatula to form a soft dough .
5. Double wrap dough in plastic wrap, flatten with a rolling pin and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
6. Preheat oven to 150°C.
7. Line a baking sheet with baking paper.
8. Remove dough from refrigerator and roll it out on a slightly floured working surface.
9. Cut out dough with slightly-floured cookie cutters.
10. Bake for 15-18 minutes, one tray at a time.
11. Cool on baking sheet for 1 minute, then transfer to wire rack to cool completely.

Yield : 35 cookies

I have to admit that I do not like to bake cookies which requires any form of rolling onto a floured surface and cutting out with cookie cutters.  I find the process much more messy than simply throwing spoonfuls of dough onto the baking tray.  Furthermore, with 2 dogs who shed all-year round at home, I have to take special care to ensure no golden fur gets onto the dough.  However, this recipe has only a few ingredients and steps, thus I am more inclined to try it out.

Finally, I get to use the Chip ‘N’ Dale popcorn bucket I bought in Tokyo Disneyland earlier this year!  It’s so adorable (but I wonder if it is airtight?).

Like the lady whom I got the recipe from said in her own blog post, it is not very easy to achieve the pretty shapes.  In the end, I put my dough on some baking paper and used my hands to knead to the required thickness before cutting out the dough and lifting the whole baking paper to dislodge the dough from both the paper and cutter.  A very tedious process no doubt, but it works for a perfectionist like me who wants perfectly-shaped cookies.