A Wedding Gift

I saw a recipe in the book, 'Essentials of Baking' by Williams-Sonoma and I've been wanting to try it... and I found a perfect occasion to bake these lovely cookies.... and so I tried....

These were simply butter cookies, cut out with cookies cutter and filled with jam. Don't they look lovely? But... I did not succeed in making them. This is only a picture of the book illustration. The dough turned out to be too soft & impossible to work with. Difficulties working with a dough again... Grr...

In the end, I settled for a simple chocolate chip cookies from my most trusted blogger, Happy Homebaker. And fortunately, they taste quite good... or at least my sisters thought so. Have not heard from the wedding couple yet.

This was what went inside the lovely container...

And the recipe which was adapted from Happy homebaker (Original source: The Cookie & Biscuit Bible) is as follow:

Ingredients (makes about 28 cookies)
115g butter, softened
115g caster sugar
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 tsp vanilla extract
175g plain flour
110g semisweet chocolate chips
65g chopped hazelnut (toasted)

Method
Preheat oven to 180degC. Line baking trays with parchment paper.

With a wooden spoon or electric mixer, cream butter and sugar in a mixing bowl until the mixture turns pale and fluffy.

Beat in the egg gradually. Mix well after each addition. Add in vanilla extract, mix well.

Sift the flour over the mixture, fold in with wooden spoon or a spatula. Fold in the chocolate chips & hazelnuts.

Drop tablespoonfuls of the cookie dough onto the prepared baking tray. Leave some space between the cookies to allow for spreading. Flatten each cookie dough slightly with the back of a fork, keeping the shape as even as possible.

Bake for 10 mins or until golden (My oven took 20 mins). Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.