Today I kept this Easy Basic Cookie Recipe pretty basic. I added a little caramel essence to it and that was about it.
Easy Basic Cookie Recipe
Decorating is not one of my best skills I must admit so keeping these simple worked for me. I drizzled some chocolate over and that was basically the sum of my decorating. The one thing I don’t compromise on when baking is the use of butter. Doesn’t butter just make everything better. I know you can substitute it with margarine but it is just not the same. Real butter is what gives all baked goods that rich, yummy taste. Cookies are about the easiest thing to bake, often you can make cookies with just basic ingredients from your pantry. That’s why I love it so much, because I can decide to bake cookies at anytime and I will have the ingredients at hand.
What are the basic ingredients?
For this Easy Basic Cookie Recipe, you just need five ingredients, butter, sugar, flour, cornflour and flavoring. You can have them as plain or as fancy as you want. Cornflour gives your cookies that melt-in-your-mouth texture and the icing sugar makes the cooks lighter and softer, whereas granulated sugar will give you more dense cookies. Which I think we will then call biscuits (not the kind in the US, the SA ones). I see biscuits as being more dense than cookies.
No piping skills required
The great thing about making these Easy Basic Cookie Recipe is that you can cut them into shapes, rather than pipe them out. I used a 5cm, in diameter, cookie cutter. Piping cookies is not the easiest. I do pipe out cookies sometimes but I really am not a fan. It takes too much effort. This way I can do them in a jiffy and still have some decent looking cookies. Some of us like keeping things simple.
Refrigerating the Cookies
Always remember if you don’t want your cookies spreading, you have to refrigerate the dough. I prefer refrigerating mine after I’ve cut out the shapes but you can refrigerate the dough and then cut the shapes. Whatever works for you.
These cookies were decorated with melted chocolate. I melted my chocolate in the microwave, 20 second increments. I cooled it down just a little bit and added it to a disposable piping bag. Make a circle with the chocolate, in the piping bag in the center of the cookie. I kept going in circular motions until I formed a full circle. Any flaws I then fixed with a toothpick. The same was done with the white chocolate, melted it and added it to a piping bag. I cut out the smallest hole I could. Whilst the milk chocolate is still wet, draw lines across the cookie from left to right, about 5 lines. You then take a toothpick and run it from top to bottom, vertically. If you do try this recipe please drop a comment and a star rating, it is always appreciated. If you’re looking for something different do try these delicious almond cookies made by my food blogger friend Sonila. More Cookie Recipes to try: Butter Cookies Greek Almond Cookies Chocolate Coconut Biscuits Nutty Chocolate Coconut Cookies If you loved this, please share!
