Baked cookies ready for piping
Personalize cookies with words of blessing or your friend's initials
A heart warming hand-made gift for loved ones
This eggless cookie recipe is a keeper for any cookie lover. It’s amazing how 5 simple ingredients can be transformed into aromatic melt-in-your-mouth cookies. Baking healthier cookies can be a challenge since butter and sugar are the main reason why cookies are flavourful and crisp. The ‘power’ ingredient in this recipe is the zest of citrus fruits. Having reduced the fat and sugar in this recipe, i need the citrus zest to impart flavour and ensure each star cookie packs a ‘citrusy punch!
Another calorie saver tip here is to avoid coating the entire cookie with icing. Instead, pipe words or simple decorative designs to give the cookies a festive look!
Ingredient
100g Unsalted butter (at room temperature)
50g Icing sugar
150g Plain Flour (sifted)
100g Corn flour
2 pinches of Salt
Zest f 1 orange (finely chopped)
Zest of 1 lemon zest (finely chopped)
Optional:
Ready-made icing for decorating
Method
1) Pre-heat oven to 175°C and lightly grease a baking tray
2) Cream butter and icing sugar until white and creamy
3) Fold in the rest of the ingredients and mix well
4) Form a dough with your hands, place flatten dough in between 2 pieces of grease-proof paper and roll to 3mm thin with a rolling pin
5) Cut cookies into desired shapes and bake for 15-20 minutes until cookies are light brown in colour.
6) Decorate cool cookies with store-bought icing and store in air-tight cookie jars
Tip:
Using the readymade icing, pipe your friend’s or loved one’s initials on the cookies and you’ve got the perfect festive gift!
