The crazy Chinese New Year baking begins! This year I’ve been experimenting with new cookie recipes to add to the menu. I’ve always liked cookies that crumbles and melts in your mouth so my uncle shared this wonderful recipe with me. The secret to getting a crumbly and soft texture is potato starch. There is a difference between potato starch and potato flour so make sure you get the right one. If potato starch is unavailable, corn starch can be used as a replacement. This is an eggless cookie recipe and the dough is quite starchy and sticky which doesn’t leave your hands messy when rolling it out. Nutrition per cookie *One batch makes about 40 cookies Ingredients 125g unsalted butter (room temperature) 40g icing sugar 125g potato starch 80g cake flour 1 tsp vanilla essence Zest 1 lemon Directions Preparation time: 10min Baking time: 15-20min or when the cookies turn brown Preheat the oven to 180 degrees (convectional oven) Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy Add in 1 teaspoon of vanilla …

Yay! I’m finally done with my exams! To celebrate, I’ve turned to my favourite pastime – obviously baking. Since I didn’t have much time for grocery shopping during the week, I just went through my pantry and found some left over desiccated coconut… hence the cookie of the week shall be coconut pretzel cookies! It’s really easy to make doesn’t take much time too. Hope that you’ll enjoy it! Preheat the oven to 170 degrees Preparation time: 15 min Baking time: 10-15 min (or when the cookie turns golden brown) Ingredients for the cookies 220g plain flour 120g caster sugar 140g butter 2 egg yolks 1 tsp vanilla essence 150g desiccated coconut 1 tsp baking powder Nutrition per cookie (one batch makes 60)  Click on the images for baking instructions

The thing about making cookies is that once you have a good cookie dough recipe, you can basically add any ingredient you like into your cookie. Since I’m a huge chocolate fan and I can’t make up my mind what chocolate to add in, why not include all three types of chocolate into one cookie? No one can resist that. Nutrition per cookie (one batch makes 24) Ingredients for the cookies 200g plain four 40g almond meal 140g unsalted butter (softened to room temperature) 100g caster sugar 2 egg yolks 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp vanilla essence 50g milk chocolate chips 50g dark chocolate chips 50g white chocolate chips Directions Preparation time: 20 min Baking time: 10-15 min Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy Add in the two egg yolks and 1 tsp of vanilla essence and continue to cream Sieve the flour, almond meal and baking powder into the creamed mixture. Fold it in until a dough forms Add the chocolate chips into the dough. Mix it well then cling wrap it …