Crystal cookies

Name: Crystal cookies
Total time: 2400 s
Yield: 5-6 servings
Cuisine: Nigerian
Ingredients: 1 cup all purpose flour; 160 g unsalted butter; 1/4 cup icing sugar; 3/4 teaspoon kosher salt; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract flavor; 3 tablespoon cornstarch flour; Yellow food colour (for crystals); Red food colour (for crystals); Green food colour (for crystals); 3/4 cup sugar (for crystals)

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Crystal cookies

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Ingredients

40 mins

5-6 servings

1 cupall purpose flour
160 gunsalted butter
1/4 cupicing sugar
3/4 teaspoonkosher salt
1 teaspoonvanilla extract flavor
3 tablespooncornstarch flour
Yellow food colour (for crystals)
Red food colour (for crystals)
Green food colour (for crystals)
3/4 cupsugar (for crystals)

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Steps

40 mins

1

Beat butter and icing sugar until light and fluffy or just mix together properly with spatula
2

Add kosher salt, vanilla flavor and Sieve in the corn flour with the all purpose flour
3

And quickly mix well until the dough comes together
4

Place inbetween parchment paper and roll out using a rolling pin to about 1/3 inche thick
5

Then place flat in the freezer to harden a bit
6

Remove and use a cookie cutter of two different sizes and cut out both outer and inner piece
7

Gently remove and place on a baking pan lined with parchment paper
8

Bake at 90 degrees C for 20-25 minutes or until slightly golden and place on a parchment paper to cool
9

For the sugar crystal glazing:- place a small pan on heat and add 3 tablespoons of sugar and allow to slowly caramelize. Then add little colour and stir to mix in
10

Quickly take the hot sugar syrup to the cooled down cookies and use a small spoon to scoop and add to the cut out center of the cookie
11

This should be done fast or the sugar hardens before you can complete the task.
12

Repeat step for the next crystal colour until done. I sprinkled desiccated coconut on top some of the crystals for more effect