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75g soft butter
75g caster sugar
½ free-range organic egg (room temp.)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
125g Zeeland flour
¼ teaspoon baking powder
icing sugar, for dusting
red and pink fondant icing
edible black felt tip pen
edible gold paint
kitchen brush
a wooden skewer
a dragon cookie cutter
Like every year when Chinese New Year comes around, we bake cookies with the monsters. This year is the Year of the Dragon according to the Chinese zodiac signs, so it will be dragons, in the Chinese lucky colors, red, dark pink and pastel pink. To make our dragons extra beautiful, we give them gold accents with edible paint. The dots work best with a skewer ;))
This is how you make Dragon Cookies
Make the biscuit dough with our recipe that you can download and print, and put the dough in the refrigerator overnight
Take the dough out of the fridge.
Knead ir briefly.
Roll it to 1 cm thickness.
Cut out dragons.
Place on a baking tray with waxed paper.
Slide the biscuits into the fridge for 30 mins.*
Bake until light golden in +/- 10 minutes.
*Preheat the oven - near the end of the 30 minutes cooling - to 175°C
First let the biscuits cool on the tray and then on a wire rack.
Roll out the fondant icing using a rolling pin.
Cut out red dragons using a dragon ciikie cutter.
Cut out pink dragons, those are lucky colours too.
Make eyes with an edible marker.
Decorate the dragons with edible gold paint.
Allow the paint to dry well for a while.
Then we frirst brew a pot of tea in our best tea set.
We fill the red envelopes and then the party can begin!
Happy Chinese New Yar! - Xin Nian kuai Le!