How adorable are these cookies? Cute Italian Marguerite Cookies / Margaret Cookies which is also known as Italian Hard Boiled Egg Yolk Cookies.
Let me share the story behind this cookies. An Italian pastry chef fell in love with Miss Margaret who lives in Stresa, Italy. He wanted to impress Miss Margaret, so he make some cookies and press his thumb print on each and every cookies to show his love. So he took the lady’s name as the name of this French cookie.
*** (the original cookies were just pressed with thumb and send to bake, without cute animal features)
If you are a beginner in baking, this is the best recipe to try out because of it's zero failure rate. With fewer ingredients, it creates an amazing taste. Don’t worry, you can’t actually taste the egg yolk in these buttery cookies but it does give them extra richness.
The texture is crumbly and melts in the mouth. Not as fragile as german butter cookies, this certainly gonna be my another favorite.
Ingredients : (makes 26pcs)
50g Butter (room temperature)
30g Icing Sugar
1g Salt (pinch)
50g Superfine Flour
45g Corn Flour/Starch
1 no Hard Boiled Egg Yolk
Step by Step:
1. Boil whole egg in water for 15 minutes. De-shelled, remove egg white and we are going to use the egg yolk only. Sift the hard boiled egg yolk with a sifter/strainer by pressing with a spoon. Set aside.
2. Put butter at room temperature for 30 minutes or until soft. Whisk butter with icing sugar and salt until pale, smooth and creamy. Add sifted egg yolk and mix well combine.
3. Add in sifted flour and corn starch (using a spatula), mix until all ingredients combined into a dough.
4. Weigh 7g cookie dough each and roll into a ball, place on baking tray, press it down with your thumb.
5. Add detail :
- 2 small balls for ears, press with toothpick.
- 1 small oval ball for mouth, place on cookie and press to flatten
- red dot for nose using red gel colouring (dot before bake)
- using a knife, cut a short line below the red dot.
6. Bake in preheated oven at 160°C for about 15-16 minutes.
7. While cookie cooling down (slightly warm), dot the eyes with black gel coloring.
8. Let cookie completely cool down and store in airtight containers.
Happy Baking.
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