Thursday, 19 April 2012

rainbow butter cookies.


Since rainbow cakes are totally overrated and i've already got the chance making it, i would like to try something new, that is to make rainbow butter cookies. The recipe i'm using is the most simple butter cookie recipe. It's very easy, but you got to be patient to do this.

All you need:
  • 1 cup butter (at room temperature)
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 2 2/3 cup all-purpose flour
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1/4 tsp salt
Directions:
  1. In a large bowl, mix together butter and sugar until light and fluffy
  2. Beat in the egg, and stir in vanila
  3. Combine the flour ans salt, and then stir into the butter sugar mixture
  4. Divide in 6 or 7 sections, color them each in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple.
  5. Cover doughs with plastic wrap, and pop into the fridge for at least one hour
  6. Roll the purple dough until round and long, followed by rolling the blue dough and make it into a sheet. And then wrap the purple dough into the blue dough.
  7. Do the same with green, yellow, orange, and finally red dough. At this points, you want to have a quite big red dough with other colors inside
  8. Pop in the refrigerator again to prevent the dough becoming soft
  9. After that, cut the dough into thin pieces and then cut in half. You want to have a half circle shape that looks like rainbow.
  10. Preheat oven to 200 degrees C, assemble the cookie dough pieces on to a cooking tray
  11. This is optional, you can sprinkle sugar on top of the cookies before you pop them into the oven.
  12. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes or until golden at the edges. Remove cookie from the tray and put them in the wire racks.

Wednesday, 4 April 2012

crepes.


This morning i made a super-easy crepes recipe that i got from AllRecipe.com. It's the quickest and the easiest way to prepare your breakfast. Go try!

All you need:
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 2 tbsp butter, melted
  • you can add 1 tbsp sugar if you like
Directions:
  1. In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the flour and the eggs. Gradually add in the milk and water, stirring to combine. Add the salt, butter, and sugar; beat until smooth.
  2. Heat a lightly oiled griddle or frying pan over medium high heat. Pour or scoop the batter onto the griddle, using approximately 1/4 cup for each crepe. Tilt the pan with a circular motion so that the batter coats the surface evenly.
  3. Cook the crepe for about 2 minutes, until the bottom is light brown. Loosen with a spatula, turn and cook the other side. Serve hot.
  4. For the filling, you can use anything from nutella (or other brand of chocolate spread, hazelnut i'd prefer), peanut butter, strawberry jam, or whatever. Or you could simply sprinkle confectioner sugar over the folded crepes and you are ready to go. Have fun!