Thursday, January 7, 2010

Almond cookies with vegetable shortening

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I was pretty tempted to try out to make a new simple cookies recipe using vegetable shortening beside butter in order to make the cookies more crunchy as someone told it to me. Then, I also decided to add almond extract to make these cookies to become almond cookies. I made 2 types of cookies shape, a flower and a bear's head :)

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Almond cookies recipe

Ingredients:
250 gram flour
100 gram butter
50 gram vegetable shortening
75 gram sugar powder
20 gram milk powder
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon almond extract

Directions:
Pre-heat oven 375 F
Mix all the ingredients until it becomes a dough
Roll out the dough and use cookies cutter
Bake cookies until lightly browned (about 15 minutes)
Leave it cool
Decorate the cookies with icing sugar (optional)

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Yup... Approved! These cookies are very crunchy!!! :)

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21 comments:

  1. What a co-incidence! I also posted a cookie recipe today. Your cookies look so much better than mine. Yummy!

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  2. These are wonderful. I love your little bears. They are really cute.

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  3. Adorable cookies and I love the almond flavor!

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  4. I love these kinds of cookies. So flavorful and yummy! First time here and I love your blog. Thanks for sharing your recipes!

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  5. I bet they melt in your mouth ~ and they're so cute with the icing as well. Yum!

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  6. Absolutely adorable cookies shaped like bears. I love teddy bears.
    Sam

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  7. Selby, those cookies are beautiful. Did they turn out with the texture you wanted?

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  8. sook: Thanks for dropping by my blog :)

    mica: Yes and I got amazed how crunchy it becomes with vegetable shortening :)

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  9. Those are cute little shapes, I can tell you put quite a bit of time on them :)

    I know the holidays are over, but cookies are still sooo good.

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  10. wow looks so nice, I will make some this CNY! :)

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  11. I really enjoy all your bakes, they always turn out so well :)

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  12. But someone told me shortenin are not good for health?

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  13. where's mine?I like the bear bear one..

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  14. These are so cute! I also love adding almond extract in cookies and other baked goods...it adds such a nice flavor!

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  15. Those bears are too cute. love them.

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