Gift Box Cookies

Ingredients:

100 gram Unsalted Butter, cold

100 gram Sugar

1 cup All Purpose Flour

1 tablespoon Cherry Jam

1 tablespoon Cocoa Powder

Instruction:

1. Whisk butter and sugar together.

2. Add jam.

3. Sift in flour.  Mix the mixture into dough.

4. Dived the dough in halves.  Add cocoa poeder in one of the doughs.  Knead it until the colour well blended.

5. Place them into two separate zip bags.  Roll the purple dough into a 5mm sheet, and roll the cocoa dough into a 3mm sheet.  Refrigerate them until firm.

6. Cut the purple dough into 4 long strips.

7. Place one of the strips on top of the brown dough, messure, and cut out 2 brown strips with the same width and length.

8. Place a brown strip between two red strips.  Make 3 sets of these striped blocks.

9. Cut each block into halves .  You should have 6 striped blocks.

10.  Cut 3 brown strips in equal sizes.  Place each into two pieces of striped blocks.  Make 3 set of them.  Refridge them until firm.

11. Cut the strip blocks into equal size of cubes.  Place them on a baking sheet.

12. Cut the remining brown dough into a few thin strips, and then cut them into small traingles for the bows.  Place a tiny dough ball on each bow.

13. Bake for about 15 minutes at 335F/160C.

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Panda Butter Cookies

Ingredients: about 50 cookies

100 gram Unsalted Butter, room temperature

80 gram Sugar

1 Egg, whisked

120 gram Cake flour

1 teaspoon Cocoa Powder

Instruction:

1. Whisk the butter and the sugar together, until the mixture is soft and in pale yellow colour.  

2. Add in the egg, a little at a time.

3. Sift in the flour.  Mix it and form it into a dough with a spatula.

4. Take out 1/3 porton of the it and mix it with cocoa powder.  Wrap the doughs separately and then freeze them for at lease an hour before futher process.

Pre heat the oven to 355F/ 180C.

5. Take a teaspoon of the yellow dough.  Roll it into a ball shape.  Then, take a small porton of the cocoa dough, roll it into two small balls for the eyes and two oval shapes for the eyes.

6.  If the batch of panda cookie doughs are too soft by the time you finish the decoration, chill it for about five minutes.  Then, place it in the oven right away and bake for about 10 to 15 minutes.  Let the cookies cool compeletly before transfer them into an air-tight container. 

Healthy Apple Glaze Tofu Doughnut

Ingredients:

Dough:

160 gram Firm Tofu

200 gram Cake Flour

30 gram Maple Syrup

Apple Glaze:

2 Apples

30 gram Brown Sugar

30 gram Unsalted Butter

1/2 teaspoon Ground Cinnamon

Instruction:

Microwave Chocolate Cookies

Ingredients:

1 tablespoon Unsalted Butter, soften

2 tablespoons Brown Sugar

1/4 cup Plain Flour

1 tablespoon Egg Wash

1/4 teaspoon Vanilla Extract

1 tablespoon Chocolate Chips

Instruction:

Microwave Chocolate Cake

Ingredients:

1 Egg

20 gram Unsalted Butter, soften

2 tablespoons Cake Flour

60ml Whole Milk

2 tablespoons Chocolate Chips

2 tablespoons Granulated Sugar

1 tablespoon Cocoa Powder

1 teaspoon Baking Powder

Instruction:

Vanilla Cookie Hearts

Ingredients: make about 50 cookies

2 3/4 cups All Purpose Flour

75 gram Unsalted Butter, soften

90 gram Cream Cheese

270 gram White Sugar

1 Egg

1 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla Extract

1 teaspoon Baking Powder

1/8 teaspoon Salt

Food colorants (Blue, Red, Green, Yellow) 

Instruction:

1. With a folk, whisk butter and cream cheese together until smooth.  

2. Add sugar, egg, salt, and vanilla extract, whisk until they are well combined. 

3. Sift in flour and baking powder.  Mix and form a soft dough with a spatula.

4. Dive the dough into three small doughs and a large dough.  Tint each small doughs with a different food colorant.  Tint the large dough with yellow.

5. Roll one of the small dough into a ball.  Add the same amount of the yellow dough on top and roll it into a ball again.  This part is very causal, you can mix and match any sort of colours as your desire.

6. Place each coloured dough in individual zip bag.  Roll them into 1mm thick sheets.  Chill them for about an hour.

7. With a heart shape cookie cutter, cut out as many hearts as you may.  Collect the remnant, form it together into a ball, and then roll it into a 1mm sheet again, in order to cut out more heart cookie doughs. Repeat this step until all the doughs are used up. 

8. Place the cookie doughs on a baking sheet.  Bake them at 350F/175C for about 10 minutes.

9. Allow the cookies cool completely before storing them into an air-tight container.