I have been making gourmet food for so long, and I have always been making stir-fry dishes. I have never made desserts. I always thought that making cookies would be a difficult task. During the Chinese New Year, I personally participated in making them once, and then I realized that making cookies is a difficult task. Cookies can be so simple; as long as the ingredients are complete, even a novice can make it easily. Let’s take a look~

Cranberry Cookies

Preparation of ingredients: Low Gluten flour, cornstarch, white sugar, milk powder, dried cranberries, butter, egg yolk

Operation steps:

1. Weigh all the ingredients (160 grams of low-gluten flour , 80 grams of cornstarch, 90 grams of white sugar, 50 grams of milk powder, 50 grams of dried cranberries, 150 grams of butter, 5 egg yolks). This ratio is enough to bake two trays of cookies. You can also customize it according to your own taste. Increase or decrease the amount of ingredients according to your preferences;

2. Slice butter. Because the weather is cold, I chose to melt the butter over water. When the weather is warm, just melt it at room temperature; cranberries Chop dry and set aside, use chopsticks to beat the egg yolk into egg liquid;

3. Wait until the butter is completely melted, then let it cool, add white sugar and egg yolk liquid, stir evenly, then add milk powder, cornstarch, and low-gluten flour in sequence , dried cranberries, stir while adding, and finally knead it into a moist and soft dough;

4. Use your hands to organize the dough into a rectangular shape, wrap it in plastic wrap, and put it in the refrigerator to freeze One hour; the freshly prepared green dough will be moist and soft, and the purpose of freezing is to facilitate slicing;

5. After an hour, take out the frozen green dough, uncover the plastic wrap, and cut into pieces with a knife Moderately thick and uniform slices;

6. Place them on a baking sheet lined with oil paper, and preheat the oven at the same time;

7. Place the biscuit greens into the preheated oven In a good oven, I choose the upper level of the oven at 180 degrees. Turn on the upper heat first, and after about 7-8 minutes, turn on the lower heat as well, and bake for 20 minutes before taking it out of the oven.

After reading the above steps, do you think it is very simple? However, if you want to make cookies with a crispy texture, you need to pay attention to the following points~

Tips:

1. Careful friends may find that I am making this Cornstarch is added to the biscuits, but many tutorials do not add cornstarch. In fact, the purpose of adding cornstarch is to make the baked biscuits very crispy even after cooling;

2. I only use egg liquid Egg yolks are used instead of egg whites because the egg whites are tougher and the biscuits will be crispy but not fluffy. If you are looking for a crispy texture, you can add whole egg liquid. If you are looking for a crispy texture, just add egg yolks. ;

3. When baking, I turned on the upper heat of the oven for 7-8 minutes before turning on the lower heat at the same time. This is because if the upper and lower heat are turned on at the same time, the oven will bake for 20 minutes. , the bottom of the biscuits is easy to burn. Turn on the heat and bake for a while, then turn off the heat and it will not burn. Of course, each oven is different, and you can set it according to your own oven conditions;

< p>4. If the dried cranberries are relatively large, they must be chopped before placing them, so that the cranberries can be distributed evenly and the biscuits will be easier to cut when slicing;

5. Many novices may not understand the difference between low-gluten flour, medium-gluten flour, and high-gluten flour. Simply put, low-gluten flour is used to make biscuits and cakes. It has low protein content and a lighter texture; medium-gluten flour is commonly used at home. Flour for making steamed buns and dumplings; high-gluten flour is used for making bread.