Almond Cookies

Baked these cookies for CNY this year. This was yet another hit among those who tried. :D


Ingredients:
· 230 gm. plain flour
· 1 tsp. baking powder
· 1 tsp. bicarbonate of soda
· 150 gm. caster sugar
· 1/4 tsp. vanillin powder
· 1/4 tsp. salt
· 150 gm. ground almonds
· 150 ml. oil (i used sunflower oil)
· 1 egg yolk


Method:
· Preheat oven at 175ºC
· Sift flour, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda
· Add in sugar, vanillin powder, salt and ground almonds
· Add in oil and mix well into a dough.
· Make small balls of dough and place on baking tray.
· Beat the egg yolk and brush over small balls of dough.
· Bake in preheated oven for 20 mins. or till lightly browned.

Chocolate Chip Muffins

My very 1st attempt on muffins.. not perfect but still everyone gobbled down everything in less than 2 days... This recipe is very versatile. I actually used the recipe of Raisin Muffins to bake these.. just replaced the raisins with choco chips and viola, it's done! :D So if you don't fancy choco chips, just replace it with something else!


Ingredients:
· 1.5 cups self-raising flour
· 100g sugar (I use caster sugar cos it's finer and easier to mix)
· 2 eggs
· 1/2 cup milk
· 55g butter (unsalted)
· 1/2 tsp vanilla essence
· chocolate chips


Method:
· Preheat oven at 180ºC
· Sieve the flour and set aside.
· Cream the butter and suger until creamy and pale white
· Add the eggs gradually to the batter and mix well
· Add in vanilla essence and milk and mix well
· Fold in sieved flour and mix well
· Stir in chocolate chips
· Spoon batter into muffin cups and bake at preheated oven for 30mins or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean

Cornflake Cookies

This is one of my favorite recipes! It's among my very 1st bakes and it turned out very successful! Received many praises and everyone esp my boys love to eat these cookies! This is almost a fool-proof recipe, it's very easy to follow and almost nothing could go wrong - even for an amateur like me!

Happy baking!

Ingredients:
· 300g plain flour
· 225g butter (unsalted)

· 100g castor sugar
· 1 tsp baking powder

· 1 egg

· Unsweetened cornflakes (crushed)

· A pinch of salt

Method:
· Sieve the flour and baking powder together and add salt. Set aside.
· Cream the butter and the sugar till creamy and pale white

· Beat the egg and add to butter/sugar mixture and mix well

· Fold in the flour mixture into the batter.

· Mix well until it forms a soft pastry dough.

· Make small balls of dough, roll and coat evenly with crushed cornflakes.

· Bake at 180 degree in a preheated oven till brown.