Cranberry Butter Cookies

Cranberry is red in colour and able to represent festive mood of Chinese New Year. It adds cheerfulness to CNY ^_^

Ingredients: 1 pack biscuit mix 500g, 150 g butter (soften), 3 tbsp dry cranberry, 1 tsp vanilla essence.

Steps:

1. Place soften butter in mixing bowl, add vanilla essence, biscuit mix (sift) and cranberry. Mix until all incorporate.

2. Make small balls dough and flatten with fork.

3. Place dough in baking tray, bake at 180 for 15-20 mins.

Note: I was running out of butter, 150 g butter was not sufficient to hold the dough together. I added a bit olive oil as ... no more butter and eggs in fridge :( It would be better to add 250 g butter just like in Pumpkin Seeds Cookies. 

Dry cranberry

A second snap on the cookies ^_^ The texture of the cookies is soft like crust for pineapple tart, is a bit hollow for cookies.   

Peanut Cookies: Part 2

失败乃成功之母也！My second baking on peanut cookies after advised from baking 達人 ^_^ I like the end result very much :) First time baking until sweating, imaging how hard the kneading was.

Ingredients: 1 pack of groundnut mix (500g), 200 ml oil, 500 g plain flour, 300 g icing sugar, 1 tsp salt, 1 egg.

Steps:

1. Bake the groundnut mix in the oven on low heat until fragrant.
2. Sift the plain flour into bowl, add sugar, groundnut mix, salt and oil (oil has to add gradually, stop when the mixture can be hold as ball). Mix and knead until dough incorporate.
3. Make the peanut balls using hands (I think this is faster ^_^), place the peanut balls on baking tray. 
4. Glaze with egg and place in oven, bake at 200 for 15-20 mins.

Lovely peanut cookies, is smooth and melt in mouth...hurray!!