Dragon Cookies

Dragon Cookies. Chinese New Year also known as Lunar New Year is an important spring festival for Chinese. Just merely few weeks we will be celebrating the big festival! I like Chinese New Year, I like the atmosphere especially during the preparation for the celebration. Everyone is busy doing housekeeping and decoration for the big day. We buy new clothes, foods to treat friends and family, decoration to decoration home and so forth. The street is so lively and you can hear New Year song is playing everywhere.

Of course baking of nice and yummy cookies is also activity during the preparation. This year I decided to bake some cookies. Today I am sharing with you the recipe of Dragon Cookies. It is a melt-in-mouth cookie with aroma of coconut. Dragon Cookies are very much like “Kuih Bangkit”, both are in white color and melt-in-mouth. The different is that Dragon cookies use corn flour but “Kuih Bangkit” uses tapioca flour. No matter what both are very nice cookies for the spring festival! Let’s kit start to make the Dragon Cookies.

Dragon Cookies

Recipe from Butter & Olive Baking Academy
This recipe makes about 30 cookies (depend on the size of cookie)

Ingredients:

97 grams unsalted butter
97 grams sugar
59 grams egg yolk
53 grams coconut milk
294 grams corn flour

Methods:

Preheat oven to 175°C.
Line baking sheet with parchment paper.
Place butter and sugar in a mixing bowl. Using electric hand mixer, beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
Beat in egg yolk one at a time until well combined.
Beat in coconut milk until well combined.
Add in corn flour in 3 additions and mix until well combined. You may use a wooden spoon to mix it or you can even mix it with hand.
Place a nozzle tip into piping bag and fill in the dough.
Squeeze and pipe the dough onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. When piping the dough, pipe it in the shape of ‘W’ so that it looks like a shape of dragon. Leave enough rooms in between each pastry.
With red food coloring liquid, draw the eyes of dragon.
Bake for about 12 to 15 minutes or until the edges are just beginning to brown.