Pandan Gula Melaka Butter Cookies
Light, crisp, buttery Pandan Gula Melaka Butter Cookies made with an Indonesian twist. These butter cookies are infused with pandan flavor and finished with gula melaka crumbs on top.
Servings: cookies
Ingredients
- 2/3 cup (150 gr) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 10 tbsp (75 gr) confectioners' sugar
- 1 tbsp milk
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 tsp pandan paste, or more
- 1 1/3 cups (165 gr) cake flour
- 6 tbsp (45 gr) cornstarch
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp minced gula melaka/palm sugar/coconut sugar, for topping
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 340℉/170℃ and line a baking sheet with parchment paper or silicone baking mat.
- Using a mixer or spatula, cream together butter and confectioners sugar until well incorporated. Add milk, vanilla extract, and pandan paste. Mix until well combined.
- Sift in flour, cornstarch, and salt to the butter mixture and mix with a spatula until well incorporated.
- Add a French star piping tip to the piping bag. Spoon a little bit of dough into the piping bag and try piping a swirl or line on the prepared baking sheet. If the dough is too thick to pipe, transfer the dough back to the mixing bowl and add 1 tsp of milk. If the dough is creamy enough to pipe, continue piping the dough in swirls or lines, leaving 2 inches apart on the baking sheet.
- Sprinkle the top of each cookie with minced gula melaka.
- Bake the cookies for 15-17 minutes or until the edges are light brown.
- Remove from the oven and immediately transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely.
Notes
This recipe will make crisp and tender cookies with a snap. If you prefer chewier cookies, substitute the milk with 1 egg yolk and substitute cake flour and cornstarch with the same amount of all-purpose flour.
Make sure to measure the flour correctly if using volume measurement. The cookies will end up too hard to pipe if you add too much flour. Use a spoon to scoop the flour into the measuring cup. Then, level the top with a knife or other straight-edged utensil.
If you don't have a large piping tip, you can alternatively use a cookie press to shape the cookies. If you don't have a cookie press or large piping tips, snip 1/2-inch corner off the end of a plastic bag and pipe the dough into lines/flat swirls.
Nutrition
Serving: 1cookie | Calories: 92kcal | Carbohydrates: 11g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 5g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 0.2g | Cholesterol: 13mg | Sodium: 50mg | Potassium: 9mg | Fiber: 0.2g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 155IU | Calcium: 3mg | Iron: 0.1mg
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