Butter Ring Cookies

Does anyone know Pororo? It's a Korean kids show that I used to watch as a kid. I think every Korean kid knows it, with Pororo the penguin as the main character and his bear, beaver, and bird friends who live with him in the Arctic. Well in that show Loopy, the pink beaver bakes these butter ring cookies and gives them out to her friends to eat. She invites them over to her little wooden cabin. It looks so cozy and delicious. Oh yeah and Petty the other penguin keeps failing at these cookies because she adds loads of salt and...mustard. These are her friends' expressions after tasting her cookies. Lol.

And this is Petty...

BUTTER RING COOKIES (Makes about 30 cookies)

Ingredients

-120g room-temp. butter

-50g powdered sugar

-pinch of salt

-1 egg

-100g all-purpose flour

-50g almond meal

Instructions

1. Line two baking pans with parchment paper. Dip a circular cookie cutter that is 4cm in diameter into flour. Make circle marks with the cookie cutter on the parchment paper, spacing the circles at least 2cm apart from each other. These are guidelines to pipe the butter ring batter later.

2. In a large bowl add butter and stir with a wooden spoon until soft and creamy. Add powdered sugar and salt and whisk until incorporated and creamy.

3. Add the egg and whisk again until fully combined and softly creamy.

4. Sift in the dry ingredients and cut the flour mixture in with a spatula. Do so until a fully-incorporated batter forms.

5. Fit a piping bag with a star tip and fill it with the butter ring batter. Pipe rings on the circles you marked earlier. Pipe double-rings.

6. Refrigerate pans for about 30 minutes or until the rings are cold and firm. Preheat your oven at this point to 180 degrees.

7. Bake cookies for about 10 minutes, or until they are golden brown. Enjoy!

Ps. My little brother loves these. He comes to the kitchen and doesn't stop sneaking these cookies into his mouth!

Recipe adapted from a Korean cookbook named 진짜 기본 베이킹 책 by super recipes. http://www.super-recipe.co.kr/etc_06/etc_s4_01.php?inc=view&idx=130&tbname=notice

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