Crispy Almond Cookies | Kung Fu Panda
Delicious and delicate crispy almond cookies with painted character designs, celebrating Dreamworks' Kung Fu Panda film series.
Ingredients
For the cookies:
- 120 g [4.25 oz] unsalted butter room temperature
- 100 g [½ cup] caster sugar
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 large egg
- 120 g [1 cup] plain flour [all-purpose flour]
- ½ tsp almond extract
- ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda [baking soda]
- 120 g [1 cup] ground almonds [almond flour]
For the decoration:
- 1 egg for egg wash
- 20 blanched or natural almonds
- Pink food colouring
- Jade-green food colouring
- White food colouring
- Black food colouring
- A bottle cap of vodka optional
Instructions
- Beat the butter to loosen it slightly, then beat in the sugar until light and fluffy.
- Beat in the egg, salt and almond extract until combined.
- Sift in your plain flour and bicarbonate of soda. Then, add the ground almonds and mix in until combined.
- Shape your mix into a ball shape in your mixing bowl, cover with cling film (or beeswax covering) and refrigerate for 1 hour.
- When your cookie dough has chilled for 1 hour, line a tray or two with greaseproof paper/baking parchment and preheat your oven to 170°C [325°F] or 160°C fan.
- Scoop about 1 tbsp of your dough and roll into a ball. Place on your lined tray(s).
- Repeat this until you are out of dough and you have around 20 (less or more is fine!) balls of dough.
- Using the palm of your hand, press each ball into a disc shape about ½ inch in thickness. Make sure each cookie has a good amount of space around it as they will spread ever so slightly in the oven.
- Place an almond in the centre of each cookie – do this for half of your batch, leaving the other half without so that you can decorate them.
- Whisk an egg in a small bowl with a tiny splash of water. Brush your cookies with the egg wash to achieve that lovely golden shine.
- Bake for 15 – 20 minutes, depending on the size and thickness of your cookies. They will be done when they are a lovely golden colour.
- Leave to cool completely on your trays.
- Once cool, mix each of your food colourings in separate bowls, sharing the bottle cap of vodka between all four.
- Using the vodka/colour solutions, paint the cookies without the almonds on with the radish, paw print and Yin Yang designs – or whatever imagery you have chosen.
- Leave to dry (this is pretty instantaneous!).
Notes
These delicious crispy almond cookies will keep for up to 1 week in an airtight container but will soften over time. Enjoy!