Monday, October 12, 2009
Egg White Square Cookies
Sharing with everyone another alternative to get rid of your left over egg whites. You can purchase the stencil from Kitchen Capers retail store.
Recipe
Ingredients
60g butter
55g caster sugar
2 egg whites (about 80g)
1/4tsp vanilla essence
70g plain flour (sift)
chocolate paste/cocoa powder
Steps:
1. Preheat oven at 180C.
2. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
3. Slowly beat in the egg white and vanilla essence until well combined.(If batter curdle add in some flour.)
4. Fold in the flour into Step 3 and mix to form a smooth batter.
5. Mix 1tsp of the plain batter with chocolate paste.
6. Spoon the chocolate batter into a piping bag and set aside.
7. Place the stencil on a piece of ungreased parchment paper or silicon mat.
8. Spoon some batter onto the stencil.
9. Use a palette knife to smooth out the surface and fill up the holes.
10.Carefully remove the stencil and pipe the chocolate batter on the surface to create pattern on it.
11.Carefully transfer the paper onto a baking tray.
12.Bake in a preheated oven for 8-10mins or until lightly browned.
13.Cool on wire rack and keep in an airtight containers.
Thanks for sharing, how a good idea to get rid of egg white.
ReplyDeleteHi Sonia,
ReplyDeleteYou r most welcome. :)
Sometime I'm lazy to bake macarons so can use this recipe and most important I can control the sweetness of the cookies.
nice cookies...is it the crunchy type???
ReplyDeleteHi Dana,
ReplyDeleteThanks, it crunchy and has a nice buttery taste and smell.
Hi,
ReplyDeleteI can't find the stencil in KC's catalogue. Did you just buy this recently? How much did the stencil cost? Thanks.
regds,
christine
Hi Christine,
ReplyDeleteYou have to go to KC store, it cost $3.00.
I see. Thanks!
ReplyDeletechristine
mine out out to be hard. Can you advise what went wrong
ReplyDeleteHi Hong Lian,
ReplyDeleteEither you had over baked the cookies or the oven temperature is too high.