Heavenly Housewife's Mandarin Cookies
By: Heavenly Housewife
Published: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - 5:33am

Ingredients




Ingredients:

225 grams butter
80 grams sugar
2 teaspoons of water
the zest of one orange

orange food colouring

2 cups of all purpose flour, sifted
whole cloves

Preparation

1 Directions 2 Preheat oven to 325°F/ 160°C . 3 Cream the sugar and butter together, and then add the water, orange zest and food colouring. Add the flour. 4 Once combined, transfer dough to plastic wrap and let it sit in the refrigerator for several hours. 5 Shape into little mandarins. Put one clove into the top of each mandarin cookie (to mimic a stem.) Arrange cookies on a parchment lined baking tray and bake for 20 minutes.

About


How many cookies must a girl eat in order to achieve double happiness?
Chinese New Year began on Februaruy 14th, and I had planned to do a post on it, but I got a little bit bombarded. Lucky for me, a little birdy told me that Chinese New Year lasts 15 days! Better late then never, I scoured the internet for a cool Chinese sweet that I could make on my blog. A lot of them intimidated me or had some unusual ingredients that I would have trouble sourcing, so basically, this is my own take on a Chinese New Year sweet. Why mandarins? Well, according to Wikipedia, "mandarin oranges are the most popular and most abundant fruit during Chinese New Year." The word for mandarins, when pronounced in Chinese, sound like the Chinese words for prosperity and fortune. I'm all for that :D. As it is customary to give eachother little gifts during this time, I have made you little mandarin cookies.
Mr P and I wish you all a prosperous Year of the Tiger.