Recipe adapted from Guai Shu Shu
Chinese New Year's Day (CNY) has long by as well as I am yet clearing my backlog of recipes from my CNY bakes. I promise I tin forcefulness out grab up! I accept a few to a greater extent than to go! You are incorrect if yous intend that I tin forcefulness out accept amount twenty-four hours to cook, bake as well as weblog at habitation forthwith that I accept retired from the competitive corporate world. In reality, my habitation based trouble organisation is making me but every bit busy but inwards a happier as well as healthier manner. I am yet ho-hum as well as irregular inwards my recipes documentation. Alright...before I rant further, permit me to part this bang-up goodie recipe that I genuinely adore - Cranberry Shortbread Cookies 蔓越梅牛油饼. I never genuinely liked any resemblance of shortcakes. But I produce dearest this!
I used to accept 2nd thoughts almost cranberries. To me, cranberries are a tad likewise sour every bit a fruit. Whilst I produce non hear cranberry juice, eating the fruit itself was a no no. I know the benefits of cranberries existence a superfood. I should non resist! I am glad that many nutrient bloggers accept introduced as well as shared this widely used recipe, albeit inwards dissimilar variations. Tried, tested as well as testified. I absolutely savour the usage of dried cranberries inwards this Cranberry Shortbread Cookies 蔓越梅牛油饼. Every component subdivision as well as gustatory modality is but as well as thus cohesive when seat together.
Ingredients (yields almost fifty cookies) :
- 500 gm Top flour or cake flour (I used Top flour)
- 250 gm unsalted butter (room temperature, sliced or diced)
- 2 tsp shortening
- 150 gm icing sugar
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 200 dried cranberries
- 1 beaten egg
Method :
- Mix butter, shortening, icing carbohydrate at high speed till calorie-free as well as fluffy similar meringues.
- Add egg. Mix at depression speed till good combined.
- Let the mixer run on to run at depression speed, spoon inwards sifted flour till good combined.
- Add cranberries to dough. Mix at depression speed till cranberries are evenly spread.
- Remove bowl from mixer, lightly stir dough inwards bowl amongst a spoon to ensure ingredients are good combined.
- Shape cookie dough into squarish cast of almost 3.5 cm (W) x 3.5 cm (H) as well as roll the shaped dough nicely amongst a cling wrap.
- If yous are using a cookie mould similar me, lay the cling roll inwards the cookie mould get-go earlier filling it amongst the dough. Remove the squarish cookie dough from the cookie mould when done as well as roll the dough nicely amongst the same cling wrap.
- Store wrapped dough into freezer for almost thirty minutes. This would gear upward the cast of the dough as well as harden the the dough for tardily slicing later.
- When cookie dough is difficult enough, withdraw from freezer as well as unwrap.
- Pre-heat oven to 160 degrees celsius or 320 degrees fahrenheit.
- Use a knife to while the cookie dough. Ideally, each while should preferably move betwixt 0.5 cm to 0.75 cm but inwards reality, the thickness may vary. Some slices may destination upward thicker than the others.
- Place cookie slices onto a lined baking tray. Leave a lilliputian infinite inwards between.
- Bake inwards pre-heated oven for 20 to 25 minutes. I took to a greater extent than than 25 minutes every bit my oven was non efficient plenty as well as my slices were slightly thicker.
- Once out of oven, permit the cookies to cool for v to 10 minutes before transferring to cooling rack.
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For me, it was a skillful alter to suspension away from the norm of CNY gifting. When everybody's buying pineapple tarts as well as bak kwas (pork jerky) for friends as well as relatives, this Cranberry Shortbread Cookies 蔓越梅牛油饼 could move a refreshing change!
Cranberry Shortbread Cookies 蔓越梅牛油饼
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