Month: February 2018

Posted in Cookies, Indonesian Food

Kaastengels (Indonesian/Dutch style : Cheese cookies)

Posted on by mariahseptantri

Hi again !

I hope I don’t bore you (yet!) with my posting. This time I want to you to try this kind of cookies, this cookies is tasty, cheesy and addictive (according to my mom). When I lived in Singapore, every time I came home to visit my mom I usually baked  this cookies for her, she loves it a lot. She think my Kaastengel is the best that she ever tasted. Thank you for the compliments, mom !!! You’re the best, mom.

Being occupied by Dutch people for about 350 years, Indonesian cooking has a lot of Dutch influences. Kaastengels is one of them. We usually serve this cookies during festive events like Eid Fitr, Christmas and Chinese New Year.

Here’s what the cookies looks like

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I have tried different recipes, and this recipe works for me.

Ingredients :

  • 125 gr unsalted butter
  • 2 medium egg yolks
  • 25 gr cornstarch
  • 150 gr all purpose flour
  • 100 gr grated aged Edam cheese
  • 1/4 tsp baking powder

Topping:

  • Eggs wash; combine 1 medium egg yolk with 1 tsp of water
  • 50 gr grated cheddar cheese

 

Directions :

1.Using electric mixer, mix butter and egg yolks with medium speed just until well mixed. It’s about 2  minutes.

2. Add grated cheese to the butter mixture, don’t over mix just until well-combined.

3. Add flour,cornstarch,baking powder to the mixture. Mix with rubber spatula and knead until the dough formed together. Wrap with the plastic and let it rest in the fridge for 30 minutes.

4. Preheat oven to 180 degree Celcius, roll the dough and cut into cookies cutters or cut into small rectangles 1×3 cm. Place the cookies on the baking sheet with parchments paper, brush each with egg wash and sprinkle with grated cheese. Bake until  done, about 15 minutes.

 

 

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Posted in Cookies

“Strawberry” Crinkle Cookies

Posted on by mariahseptantri

 

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Hi there !

It’s February now, technically it’s still winter but it has been warm in southern California. I am back blogging now, I hope I can be consistent with posting more recipes or pictures from my travelling experiences.

One time I was “surfing” to find easy recipes that I never make before. I was planning to make the recipe for welcoming my daughter back from school camping. She went for 5 days and I missed her a lot. So I thought I want to bake something special for her. She did not like it much, oh well ! But my husband does, yeay !!! At least my work is not wasted.

Okay, back to these cookies.  I was so surprised how easy to make these cookies. It has  only 4 ingredients in this cookies. Cake mix, cooking oil ,eggs and powdered sugar  Some recipes used refrigerated whipped topping, I chose the one with using cooking oil. The cookies’  picture from the original recipe look flat unlike mine. I only used half of 1/3 cup of cooking oil. The reason that when I poured only a half of it the mixture and mixed it well. The mixture  is already not sticky to the bowl or even my hands so I stopped adding oil because I was afraid the cookies will fail rising. My cookies looked chubby, just like me (hahahha….)but it’s super cute !!!
You can use any cake mix, if you want chocolate, lemon or any color, I chose this because I think pink is cute. The exterior of this cookies is chewy, even after 7 days in tight container it’s still chewy.

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Without further ado, let’s make this cute cookies !

Ingredients :

  • 1 packet of cake mix (432 gr)
  • 2 eggs (beaten)
  • Half of  1/3 cup of cooking oil  (I apologize if this confuse you but my cookies only used half of the cooking oil from original recipe, feel free to use 1/3 cup of cooking oil if you prefer)
  • 1/2 cup of powdered sugar

 

Methods :

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degree Fahrenheit
  2. Pour the powdered sugar on the bowl, set aside
  3. Combine cake mix, beaten eggs and oil in large bowl. Stir until well combined.
  4. Spoon out the small portion of the dough and make a round ball then roll it in the powdered sugar until it’s all covered.
  5. Put it the baking sheet, give a space about an inch part. Flatten slightly with your palm.
  6. Bake for 10 – 12 minutes, transfer to cooling rack to allow for cooling.
  7. Store in air tight container.