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Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Chocolate Shortbread Cookie with Purple Yam Topping

    



Prep time: 30mins
Baking time: 15mins
Makes 12 cookie bites

Ingredients

Purple Yam.                              1/2C
All Purpose Flour.                     1 C
Unsalted Butter (room temp.)    1/4C
Caster Sugar.                            1/4C
Egg.                                          1 small
Vanilla Extract                           2 drops
Chocolate bite (optional).           1/4 C
Icing Sugar

Instructions:

1) Pre-heat oven to 270F 
2) Streamed Yam over boiling water until fork can poke through the centre of the Yam. 
3) Removed skin and mashed Yam using fork. Let cool. 
4) In a mixing bowl, creamed butter and sugar, shifted flour in, added vanilla extract and beaten egg. Mixed until well combined. 
5) Added chocolate bites. 
6) Prepared baking paper on cookie sheet. 
7) Use a spoon to drop a spoonful of cookie dough onto cooking sheet, gently flatten out dough into thinner shape. Created any shape of your cookies as desired.
8) Last step, drop a bit of mashed Yam on each of the cookies. 
9) Put in oven, baked for 15 mins or until golden brown. 
10) Set aside till cools down, dusted icing sugar on top.


Tips: If cookie dough gets a bit dry, add a tablespoon of milk or water at a time. If cookie dough gets too wet, add flour to absorb the extra moisture.

This recipe makes crunchy cookie texture, if wants to store cookie for couple more days, storing with a piece of bread can prevent cookies dry out.