My girl has volunteer to bring cookies for her last day class party, knowing that her mother would be able to come up with something cute. See how spoilt are kids of the SAHM!

Since we only have the Hello Kitty Rice mould,  I just had do with what I have. Tools I used are:

• Hello Kitty Shape Cutter (to cut out the head)
• Straw (to press the eyes and mouth)
• Toothpicks (to press the whiskers)
• Flower cutter (to press flower shape near Kitty’s ear)

Using just the basic butter cookie recipe, isn’t it pretty simple? I even substitute parts of butter with Planta since I do not have enough at home.

Since I planned to try cookies decoration with Royal Icing this time, I did not stamp faces on the bear cookies. The Royal Icing is pretty easy to make, but boy…it is really difficult to “draw”  with it. Blame it to my lousy drawing skill!

Since the bears look so horrible, I decided to ice some flower shapes on the bear shape cookie instead and they ended up looking like the above picture. Nice or not, u think? Quite messy right? Perhaps the color is too light but they look really sweet in real.

I wanted to turn all the bears into flowers but QQ still prefers the bear look. So we ended up having 3 designs, Hello Kitty, Bear and Flowers. Which do you like best?

I baked the butter cookies (see recipe) again for party favors for the kids birthday party using Tomica Car moulds (it is actually vege cutters that comes in a set of 2). The cutters are quite small in size. Since my pastry was very soft, it was surely hard to stamp the cookies on surface.  I had to cut the out and have them nicely arranged on the baking tray before stamping. This way, they surface will dry off and make stamping easier (so that the soft pastry will not stick to the mould). I even baked some Mickey cookies for this coming June Mega Birthday Picnic. Can’t wait to pack them individually again tonight. These butter cookies are really fattening. Just hope I will stop popping them into my stomach otherwise I shall need diet pills to help me loose weight again.

Ingredients A:
250g butter
100g castor sugar
1 egg yolk
1 tsp vanilla essence

Ingredients B
350g plain flour
20g custard powder
some blended cashewnuts
Halved cashewnuts for top decor

Method:
1. Cream butter and sugar (but we used rubbing in method)
2. Add in egg yolk and vanilla essence. Mix well.
3. Add in sieved flour and custard powder.
4. Cut with shape cutter and place a half cashewnut on top.
5. Brush over with egg

Can guess who is the one in black? Haha….I bet she did not even know I snapped a pic of her baking with Audrey (in white shirt). Thanks for coming over, Kiasumum for coming over and help me with my baking! *rushing to complete all my baking task so that I could pack for our long holiday using the vacation rentals.*

Each morning, my maid and I will feed them their morning cereal besides regular breastfeeding. After a short break, we will bath them and put them to nap. However when I have task to accomplish in those particular morning, they just would not sleep. *As if they know mummy is waiting for them to sleep*

I would not be able to bake if Audrey is not here to help me. Instead of doing everything with my own hands, she will gets hands-on while I only have to instruct the method to do it. I would prefer to keep my hands oil-free as I need to breastfeed the babies, and carry them occasionally when they cry. Just like what Chooi Peng said, I baked with my mouth!

This week we already accomplished 2 canisters of Egg Yolk Butter Cookies and 2 canisters of the Cashew Nut Cookies. We are now in the midst of making the Meat Floss Mini Spring Roll. We will take a break during this weekend for our last CNY shopping spree, I can’t wait to get my keen shoes. Next week we shall continue to do our Pineapple Tarts and if we still have time, we will try to make some Kok Chai (mini peanut puffs) and maybe even roast some Dry Pork Slice!

Mickey & Minnie Mouse Butter Cookies

Ingredients:
100g butter (I used Golden Churn)
80g castor sugar
1tsp condense milk
1 egg yolk
100g self raising flour
100g plain flour (I added more until they are not too soft to stamp Mickey Mouse shape)
20g corn flour

Method:
1. Beat butter and sugar
2. Add in egg yolk and condense milk
3. Fold in flour. Mix well (just beat evenly at slow speed)
4. Keep dough in fridge for at least 30mins
5. Roll dough and cut into shapes
5. Bake at preheated oven at 170C degree for 15mins

Although they are delicious, no doubt they are heaty too. Can’t eat too much of these otherwise my hubby would gonna need help from his Spawn supplement.

Bingo!! I got them so right again for the first trial. These delicious tarts even look so good my Rackmount monitor

Chinese New Year is around the corner again. And since I have a big oven now, surely must bake my own cookies this year, right? One delicacy that must not be missed during CNY is of course my favourite Pineapple Tart.

Using homemade pineapple jam by Miche’s mum, I try to bake some Nyonya Pineapple Tarts today. For the pastry I used only

• flour (150g)
• Planta (about 100g)
• 1 egg yolk (I added also some white)
• salt to taste

With the ingredients above, I could make about 20 tarts. Reason I bake so little is that I want to test my oven. I preheated my oven at 170C degree for 10mins and bake them (placing in the middle rack) for about 15mins.

Tomorrow I shall bake another batch. Guess what, I am going to add some lard into my pastry, hopefully able to get the original Nyonya taste Pineapple Tarts, just like how they did it during the olden days.