Merry Christmas my dears~
Pandan & Coconut Christmas Cookie Tree
Recipe:
450g self raising flour
165g caster sugar
185g butter, chopped at room temperature
2 eggs
1 tsp pandan essence
150g Icing sugar, sifted
1 tbps Coconut Cream
Silver Cachous
More icing sugar to dust
1) Process flour, sugar and butter until crumbly. Add eggs and pandan essence and process until combined.
2) Knead dough on floured surface and cover and chill in the fridge for about 1 hr.
3) Divide dough in half and roll out onto baking sheets. Chill for 30 minutes.
preheat oven to 180°C/160°C fan forced.
4) Using the different sized star cutters, cut two of each size for one tree.
5) Bake the smaller three stars for about 10 minutes, and the larger stars for 12 minutes.
Icing:
1 tbsp Coconut cream
150 g icing sugar
1) Sift the icing sugar through a fine sieve into a bowl.
2) Add the sugar a spoonful at a time into the coconut cream and mix. Keep adding until you feel that you have a suitable consistency for piping.
Assembly:
1) Pipe some icing onto the surface of a plate, place largest star on the icing. Join the rest of the stars, largest to smallest in this way. Save the smallest star.
2) Pipe a dot of icing on the tips of the stars, and add a silver cachous. Do this with the smallest star and once it has hardened, stand it up on the top of the tree with some icing.
3) Dust with icing sugar.
