Occasion: Chinese New Year
Sambal Dried Shrimp Cookies
Ingredients
Instructions
Prepare the Dried Shrimp Sambal:
Blend the pre-soaked dried shrimp into small pieces.
Blend all the blended ingredients.
Heat oil in a pan, stir-fry the blended ingredients until fragrant (5 mins).
Add in the seasoning.
Add in the dried shrimp and stir-fry for 10 mins.
Prepare the Dough:
Put the unsalted butter and icing sugar in a big bowl, beat until light and fluffy.
Add in all-purpose flour and AJI-NO-MOTO®, then use a spatula to mix them well.
Wrap the dough with plastic wrap, and refrigerate for 20 minutes.
Divide the dough into 30 pieces and form them into a ball-shaped dough (around 16g per piece). Save 5 of them as decoration dough.
Flatten each ball-shaped dough, put some dried shrimp sambal in it and wrap it well.
Decoration:
Divide 3 ball-shaped dough into 50 small round shapes as tiger ears.
Take 2 ball-shaped dough to mix with bamboo charcoal powder.
Use the black colour dough as tiger stripes.
Use black sesame seeds as tiger eyes.
Bake the cookies:
Preheat the oven at 180°C for 10 minutes and bake the oven at the same temperature for 20 minutes.
Use a brush to apply some pink colouring powder on cookies as tiger cheeks.
Enjoy the cookies.
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