Cigarette Butter Cookie (Yoku Moku Cigare)

• 份量: 10 servings
• 准备时间: 15 minutes
• 总时间: 33 minutes

配料

1 egg white (34g / 1.2oz, note 1)

34 g / 1.2oz butter melted (note 2)

30 g / 1oz flour sifted (note 3)

10 g / 0.4oz almond meal/flour sifted (note 3)

40 g / 1.4oz caster sugar (superfine sugar)

⅛ tsp vanilla bean paste or a ⅓few drops of vanilla essence (optional)

步骤

Heat the oven to 170°C / 338°F.

Making Batter

Add egg white and sugar in a bowl. Using a whisk, mix well (do not whip) so that the sugar mostly dissolves.

Add the butter to the bowl and mix well.

Add ⅓ of the flour to the bowl and mix. Then add the rest of the flour and almond meal to the bowl and mix well.

Add the vanilla bean paste/essence if using to the bowl and mix well. The batter should be quite soft. If you lift the whisk up, the batter peaks but then bends straight away (note 10).

Preparing To Bake Using A Spoon (skip this if Using A Stencil)

Cut a sheet of baking paper to just fit in a large baking tray.

On the back of the baking paper, draw 3-4 circles with a diameter of 11cm / 4¼” (note 4). The circles need to be 2-3cm / 1" apart from each other. Place the baking paper on the tray.

Drop a bit more than 1 tablespoon of the batter in the centre of each circle on the tray.

Using the back of a spoon, spread the batter evenly to fill each circle. Make sure that the batter in the centre of the circles is not too thin. Thickness should be about 1mm / 3⁄64“.

Preparing To Bake Using A Stencil (skip this if Using A Spoon)

Cut a plastic sheet of about 1mm thick (note 5) into a rectangle shape so that you can draw a 11cm / 4¼” diameter circle with 2-3cm / 1" margin on three slides and more margin on the 4th side. Cut out the plastic along the circle and make an off-centred circle stencil (note 6).

Cut a sheet of baking paper to just fit in a baking tray and place it on the tray.

Place the stencil at the corner of the tray and drop a bit more than 1 tablespoon of batter on one end of the circle.

Using an icing spatula, push the batter to the other end of the circle, filling the entire circle with the batter. If there are are unfilled patches, collect excess batter and fill the patches using the same technique.

Gently remove the stencil. Repeat until the tray is filled with circles but ensure that circles are 2-3cm / 1" apart from all directions.

Baking and Shaping Cigarette

Place the tray in the middle shelf of the oven and bake for about 5½-6 minutes (note 7) or until the outside of the cookies becomes light brown.

Remove the tray from the oven, peel one cookie off the baking paper. The cookie should be floppy.

Pick up the edge of the cookie on your side and start rolling on the tray (note 8). If you are not sure of how tight the roll needs to be, place a chopstick on the cookie and roll around it.

Continue rolling away from you until the end. Hold the roll for 5 seconds or so to secure the end.

Roll the rest of the cookies in the same way. Transfer them to a cooling rack.

Repeat the steps above (excluding Making Batter) until you use up the batter (note 9).