Showing posts with label Watermelon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Watermelon. Show all posts

Monday, August 29, 2011

Watermelon Cookies

Recipe adapted fr BAKING COOKBOOK by Alan Ooi 

Ingredients: Cookies dough
(A) 180 gm Butter (soften); 50gm cream cheese ; 150 gm Icing Sugar
(B) 1 egg (B) ; 1 tsp vanilla Essence (I don't understand what the author mean by egg B, i look thru the book and found no clue at all. Any experts here can enlighten me?)
(C) 280gm plain flr ; 30gm Hoen Kwe flr ; 30gm Milk powder (I use coffe creamer cos dun hav milk powder) ; 1 tsp baking powder

Ingredients: Filling
(D) 1/2 tbsp black sesame seeds ; some red colouring ( I added a little bit of strawberry essence instead, u can add watermelon flavour if u desire)

Ingredients: Crust
(E) some apple green colouring


Method:-
1.Biscuit: 
-Whisk A until thick n creamy
-mix B into it and blend till smooth
-blend in C and knead into a dough
-divide dough into 3 portions: -mix & knead 300g with D evenly, mix 240g with evenly , leave the remaining 240g as plain dough

2.Filling
-knead red filling dough from step 1 into round cylinders.
-Wrap up in plastic wrap n chill in refridgerator for 15 min ( I left it inside freezer compartment to speed up the hardening)

3.Inner Crust
-Place the plain dough in between 2 plastic wrap ( i cut up those plain transparent plastic bag & use it)
-roll out thin, place the chilled filling dough (step 2) on top
-roll into a cylinder
-again, wrap up in plastic wrap n chill for 20min

4. Outer crust
-place green dough in between 2 plastic wrap, roll out until thin
-place the chilled combination clinder dough (step 3) on top. 
-roll into cylinder
-again wrap up in plastic wrap n chill overnight in refrigerator (at the normal compartment)

5. Next day, cut the chilled dough into 3mm think slices n bake at 130C for 15 min or until cook ( I adjusted according to my oven, pls do so for yours)