Butter Ring Cookies
These butter ring cookies are classic and simple but they are my favourite cookies now. My dad likes them a lot too. I failed at these cookies once when I made it before. The problem was that I hadn't refrigerated them until firm before baking.
But the instructions for the recipe never said to refrigerate before baking! Well, from now on I'm always going to refrigerate because on my first try these cookies spread into thin sheets full of airholes. Now, I made these butter ring cookies many times and they turned out delicious every time.
One reason I like these cookies is because they appear in Pororo, an animation my toddler brother watches. They characters in the epidsode make these cookies look so yummy. >.<
Here is a video on how to make them!
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