Cook the Book: Gold Dust Cookies

Name: Cook the Book: Gold Dust Cookies
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 30
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoons baking powder; 6 Tbsps 3/4 stick soft butter; 1 large egg; 315 milliliters all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon ground ginger (or vanilla extract); 30 servings Edible gold dust cluster or glitter flakes; 1 teaspoons salt; 118 milliliters superfine sugar

You can never have too many dessert recipes, so give Cook the Book: Gold Dust Cookies a try. This recipe makes 30 servings with 224 calories, 6g of protein, and 5g of fat each. This recipe covers 3% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. A mixture of baking powder, butter, egg, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so flavorful. It is a good option if you're following a vegetarian diet. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 45 minutes.

Instructions

Cream the butter and sugar together until whipped soft and pale, then beat in the egg, followed by the ginger (or vanilla), flour, baking powder and salt and continue mixing until it all comes together to make a soft dough.

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Baking Powder

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Ginger

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All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Salt

Egg

Form into two discs, wrap each one in plastic wrap and let it rest in the refrigerator 20 to 30 minutes.

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Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

Preheat the oven to 350°F and line a cookie sheet or two with parchment paper.

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Baking Paper

Baking Sheet

Oven

Cut into shapes, dipping the cutter into flour as you go, and place the first cookies a little apart on the lined cookie sheet/s. Keep the scraps of the first disc, to mix with the scraps of the second and roll and cut, reroll and cut, until you've used up the mixture. This is a wonderfully pliable dough, which makes it an unstressful joy to work with.

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Dough

All Purpose Flour

Roll

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Baking Sheet

Bake in the oven 8 to 12 minutes: this depends on their shape, how many sheets are in the oven at the same time, and whether on the upper or lower shelf, though you can swap them around after about 5 minutes. When they're ready, expect them to be tinged a pronounced pale gold around the edges; they'll be softish still in the middle, but will harden on cooling.

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Oven

Take the sheets out of the oven, remove the cookies, with a flat, preferably flexible spatula, to a wire rack and let cool.

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Wire Rack