I was curious about piping at one point in time last year. Decided to make this simple recipe so that I can put the new piping bags and tips in use. Though the recipe was rather simple, it wasn't something I like. Infact I find the smell of cocoa powder rather weird without mixing some chocolate into the recipe. Perhaps because I am a chocoholic I find the recipe is too light and not to my liking.
However, if I didn't remember wrongly this was my very first time doing cookies piping. It was fun though to get different star shapes out from the same star-shaped nozzle with different pressures, angles and heights. It was quite a mess as I didn't know how to fill up the piping bag at that point. Anyway it was a good experience for an amateur like me to get a feel on how to work with some of the piping utensils.
EASY CHOCHOLATE COOKIES
Ingredients
200g butter/magarine
80g icing usgar
1/2 egg
1/2 tsp vanilla essense
210g plain flour
15g cocoa powder, sifted
some chocolate chips for decoration
Method
1. Cream butter and icing sugar till just combined.
2. Add egg, vanilla and mix well.
3. Fold in flour and cocoa powder.
4. Put mixture into a piping bag fitted in with a star nozzle. Pipe dough onto a greased and lined baking sheet and decorate with a chocolate chip in the centre.
5. Bake in a preheated overn at 180deg C for about 20min. Remove and leave to cool.
Notes
1. The cookies would not expand as not leavening agents are added in. So we can safely pipe the cookies near to each other.
2. Fill the piping bag hall full so that you can have better control when you pipe out the cookies. Shake your bag and give a few twists to 'lock' the dough in the bag
3. Do not put the nozzle too near to the baking sheet as this will leave not enough room to pipe out nice star shaped cookies. Too far will cause the cookies dough flow out too long and it would be nice looking.
4. I was silly to put the flat bottom of the chocolate chips facing up. Realised it looked rather weird after half way through:)
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