Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, mike cookies - great for halloween. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Mike Cookies - Great for Halloween is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Mike Cookies - Great for Halloween is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook mike cookies - great for halloween using 9 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Mike Cookies - Great for Halloween:
- Prepare 300 grams Cake flour
- Get 200 grams Butter
- Make ready 100 grams Sugar
- Get 1 Egg
- Take 3 drops Vanilla essence
- Prepare To add later
- Take 10 grams Matcha green tea powder
- Make ready 10 grams Cocoa powder
- Take 10 grams Cake flour
Instructions to make Mike Cookies - Great for Halloween:
- Preparation: Sift the cake flour. Bring the butter to room temperature. Preheat the oven to 160℃.
- Knead the room temperature butter with a wooden spatula until softened.
- Add the sugar and cream until it becomes white with a smooth cream-like consistency.
- Add the egg and vanilla essence and mix quickly.
- It will separate at first, but if you mix it well, it will look like this!
- Add the sifted cake flour and mix in a cutting motion without kneading.
- Divide the dough into 1/2, 1/4, 1/4 portions. Mix in the matcha into 1/2 of the dough.
- Mix cocoa powder into one of the 1/4 portions.
- Add the cake flour to the remaining 1/4 portion and mix.
- Roll out the matcha dough with a rolling pin to a 5 mm thickness. If it looks like the dough is going to stick to the surface, dust with cake flour.
- Cut out the shapes with a round cookie cutter.
- Stretch the plain dough into a circle and place on the matcha dough.
- Stretch the chocolate dough into a circle half the size of the plain dough, and place it on top.
- Use the cocoa dough to create a mouth.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes in a preheated 160℃ oven and it's done.
- Here is my Little Green Men version: (http://www.allthecooks.com/recipe/Great+for+Halloween+++Little+Green+Men+Cookies-4535757717897216/)
- I have a Totoro version as well! (http://www.allthecooks.com/recipe/Totoro+Cookies+with+Pancake+Mix+and+Ingredients+at+Home-5563135839698944/)
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