Red Yeast Cookies 红鞠饼干 CNY 2015

Tomorrow is Valentine's Day and I think this is the first time Valentine's Day comes before Chinese Lunar New Year. So for today's post, I used red yeast powder to make these crispy cookies, as it gives the natural red colour which represents sweet love for Valentine's Day as well good luck for Chinese New Year. It is very easy to make these cookies. All that is required is to mix and knead all the ingredients by hand and it's all done within a couple of minutes. Use your favourite cookie cutter shapes and have fun baking for your loved ones.

Red Yeast Cookies

      Ingredients:
      200g Plain flour
      80g Icing sugar
      20g Toasted white sesame seeds
      10g Red yeast powder
      1/4tsp Salt
      1/2 tsp Vanilla extract
      60g Crisco shortening
      60g Egg white     

      Method:

• Sieve flour and icing sugar into a mixing bowl. Add in sesame seeds, red yeast powder and salt, mix well.
• Lastly add shortening, vanilla extract and egg white into flour mixture.  Knead to combine well until become a dough. Roll out the dough on floured table to thickness of 3mm.
• Cut into heart or round shape with cookie cutter and place onto a baking tray.
• Bake cookies in preheated oven at 180 deg C for about 12 - 15 minutes. Leave to cool and store in an airtight container.
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红鞠饼干

      材料：

      200个普通面粉

      80克 糖粉

      20克 白芝麻，烤香

      10克 红鞠粉

      1/4茶匙 盐

      1/2茶匙 香草香精

      60克 白奶油

      60克 蛋白

     

      做法：

• 将面粉与糖粉一起过筛到大碗中。加入白芝麻，红鞠粉及盐，混合均匀。
• 倒入白奶油，香草香精和蛋白，轻轻揉搓成面团。擀成薄片约0.3公分。
• 用饼干刀具切出饼干，圆形或心形。将饼干按序排在烤盘上。
• 把饼干盛入预热烤箱以180度烘约12-15分钟。待冷却后存入容器内，随时使用。

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Happy Valentine's Day to all my readers and friends and also Happy Chinese Lunar Year to those who celebrates.
  May the year of Ram will brings you Good Luck, Prosperity and Happiness.

This will be my last post here as I'm taking a break from blogging for the CNY holidays and will return in Mar 2015.