Kabocha Squash Cookies without Cookie Cutters

Name: Kabocha Squash Cookies without Cookie Cutters
Yield: 22 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 180 grams Kabocha squash; 120 grams Butter (or margarine); 90 grams Sugar; 1 Egg; 250 grams White flour; 1/2 tsp Baking powder; 1 small amout Salt (not required if you use salted butter), Vanilla oil

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I came up with this recipe where you don't need cookie cutters. You can make lots of them for Halloween parties for kids.

When you chop the kabocha squash in a food processor it will be lumpy. I like it this way, though.
If it's stringy, please strain it. The cookies won't be very sweet with 80 g of sugar. You will taste the sweetness of the kabocha squash, but kids seem to enjoy a sweeter taste. Recipe by twinflower

I came up with this recipe where you don't need cookie cutters. You can make lots of them for Halloween parties for kids.

cookpad.japan @cookpad_jp

I came up with this recipe where you don't need cookie cutters. You can make lots of them for Halloween parties for kids.

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Ingredients

22 servings

180 gramsKabocha squash
120 gramsButter (or margarine)
90 gramsSugar
1Egg
250 gramsWhite flour
1/2 tspBaking powder
1 smallamout Salt (not required if you use salted butter), Vanilla oil

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Steps

1

Keep the butter at room temperature or microwave to soften. Combine the flour and baking powder and sift twice.
2

Microwave the kabocha squash until it becomes soft, peel the skin, and chop up into small pieces in a food processor (then you can strain). Keep the skin aside.
3

Mix the butter until it becomes creamy, add the sugar, and keep mixing well until it turns pale and white. (I used half butter and half margarine)
4

Beat an egg (keep 2 tablespoons aside for brushing), pour into the butter mixture slowly to prevent separation, and keep mixing.
5

When it's blended, add the kabocha squash paste, a small amount of vanilla oil, and salt, then continue mixing.
6

Switch to a spatula, pour in the sifted flour all at once, and mix with a cutting motion. Continue mixing until it's no longer floury. Do not knead!
7

Separate into two portions and wrap in plastic wrap. Form into logs, and refrigerate. When they become a firm, take them out and push down a chopstick in the centre line to make a pumpkin shape (the stem will be added later). Return to the refrigerator.
8

When they are firm enought to cut, slice, and brush with the remaining egg. Make lines with the edge of a cup or a skewer.
9

Cut facial features from the skin you set aside with kitchen scissors, and press on the pumpkin faces.
10

Preheat the oven at 170℃/ 340℉. Bake for 20 minutes. If it seems like the temperature is too high, turn down the heat.
11

I put them into separate bags and wrap with ribbons and masking tape.
12

You can make a lot and they make perfect gifts.