Simple and delicious. You'll be surprised at how cheap, but delicious this recipe is.
Ingredients
- 250 g copha room temperature
- 300 g plain flour
- 20 g dry yeast
- 1 tsp caster sugar
- 1 tbs milk
- 1 cup icing sugar
- 16 g vanilla sugar
Method
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Step 1Preheat oven to 170C. Lightly grease and line 2 baking trays.
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Step 2In a small bowl, dissolve yeast with sugar and milk.
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Step 3Sift flour into a bowl and add copha and yeast combined to form dough. Don't use an electric mixer as the dough will become too soft.
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Step 4Make a ball and then put into a deep saucepan and cover with cold water. Leave the dough in water for 2 hours.
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Step 5Remove dough from water and transfer to a bowl. Fill a piping bag with mixture using a tablespoon. Pipe onto a lightly greased and lined baking trays to form round cookies. Bake in preheated oven for about 15 minutes.
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Step 6Mix icing sugar with vanilla sugar and thoroughly dust biscuits - this brings out the beautiful taste.
Equipment
- piping bag
Recipe Notes
Grate the copha to melt it faster.
The cookies are very soft and fragile - so they break easily - these are the ones I use for 'taste testing'.
Use a good quality piping bag.
It is essential to coat the cookies with vanilla icing sugar as the dough itself is not particularly sweet.
If you like the sound of this recipe, you might also like these Christmas Cookies.
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