These fragrant and crispy buttery cookies were made with leftover egg whites. As Chinese New Year is just around the corner, I added the egg white cookies with beetroot powder to make them look more festive and impressive in pinkish red. Definitely a keeper recipe and great to serve on any special occasions.
Author Ann Low
Prep Time 12 minutesmins
Cook Time 20 minutesmins
Total Time 32 minutesmins
Course Cookies
Cuisine Chinese snack
Difficulty Easy
Servings 16cookies
Ingredients
130gbutter, soft to touch - used good butter, Lurpak
60gicing sugar - sifted
2tspvanilla extract
3tbspegg white
150gplain flour
1/2tbspbeetroot powder - or purple sweet potato powder
Instructions
Cream butter and icing sugar till pale and fluffy. Add vanilla extract, and mix well.
Add egg white in 3 batches till combined.
Mix plain flour and beetroot powder together, then sieve into egg white mixture.
Using a rubber spatula to fold well mixture to combine.
Prepare a piping bag fitted with your favourite nozzle tip, fill in batter and pipe on non-stick baking tray or tray with parchment paper.
Bake in preheated oven at 160 degrees C for about 18-20 minutes. Allow cookies to cool on wire rack before storing in an airtight container.
Keyword Chinese new year, Chinese snack, egg white cookies