Klassiske Vaniljekranse / Danish Butter Cookies Recipe

Merhaba From Türkiye 👋

First of all, I'd like to thank you for visiting my blog. I hope you can come back, again and again, to check up on any beyond Indonesian or Turkish food or something sweets that you might love. Your comments and emails brighten my days and make this simple blog thing worthwhile 😍💛

My post today again it's about cookies... Yes, since these Islamic Holiday (Eid al-fitr).. I made a lot of cookies..many kind.... And one of them is this Danish butter Cookies.

I decide to make this cookies because it remind me on my hometown during Eid al-fitr my mom always had this among our homemade cookies.. yes, we always store bought this cookies. It's so classic and memorable cookies for me and my siblings since it has been around veerryyy long time  - maybe since I was a kid as I remember.

So for bring back my childhood memories and having "Eid al Fitr like home" I make this nice and fragrant cookies for this Ramadhan Bayram...

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Speculaas butter cookies / Butter kukis dengan bumbu spikoek

Selam everybody..... Merhaba from Turkey..

Celebrating Ramadhan Bayram/ Eid al-Fitr is always being a happiest moment in my life...after do our Fasting (sawm) during Ramadhan.The holiday celebrates the conclusion of the 29 or 30 days of dawn-to-sunset fasting during the entire month of Ramadan. The day of Eid, therefore, falls on the first day of the month of Shawwal

In Turkey, Eid al-Fitr celebrated with baklava and candy or turkish delight. When you visit your friend or relatives during Eid al-fitri (Ramazan Bayram) they will serve you with that traditional sweets pastry.

But in Indonesian tradition, eid al-fitr identically with cookies, ketupat with many other traditional meals. Too bad I can not have ketupat here.. 😔

But even far away from my homeland I want to have my own Indonesian tradition to celebrate Eid al Fitr here... Beside Baklava (mostly I buy from patisserie here) I usually make some cookies to have Indonesian Eid al fitr's atmosphere in our house... And of course for my Indonesian fellows who visit our house they will get Indonesian aroma...

We usually have many kind of cookies to serve in our living room table, waiting our guess... such as nastar, kaastengel, putri salju, sus kering, pastel mini, etc...Those are always serve on my house during eid al fitri ^,^

You can check my variant cookies recipe on cookies section. 

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Resep Sus Kering Keju / Cheesy choux pastry cookies

Resep dalam Bhs İndonesia ada dibagian bawah.

It is like a choux cookie snack because it's dry and crunchy as cookies. Back when I was in Indonesia, this choux cookies always served together with other traditional cookies typically for Aidhul Fitr celebration in our house. But we usually bought them ready from the store... we never made it at home (^,^)

But here, far away from my homeland... if I miss something I mostly couldn't find here... I must do more effort to have it... But by doing this I'll learn anything which I never thought I would learn/ do 

This recipe I adapted this from the Indonesian online recipe site Sajian Sedap. And here I write in English version for you who want to try this savory tasteful cookie..

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Pistachio Macarons recipe, Step by Step and Tips

Selam everybody.... Merhaba from Turkiye 😃

Today's post again is part of my journey (read; adventure) of macarons... I think I'm in heart to these tiny little sweet. I mean, who doesn't? And also they are too cute and pretty much "photogenic"..(^,^).. you know what I mean.... They are just perfectly beautiful in front of camera. I always love to add some cute and girly properties for them... I think they match each other (^,^)

Well, I'm not photographer.... but I always love to present what I made in my little kitchen look genuinely scrumptious for my readers because that's what food photography about-at least that's what I believe. And you must try the recipe to experience the taste.

And back to macarons topic... many of my friends said they they are afraid to bake them because they said it's tricky and mostly end up with failure.
Believe me, I'd been there before! Before I got "success story" on baking macarons... I was like my friends before... If I'm not mistake calculate maybe I failed baking this macarons about 4 or 5 or 6 times since 2 years ago.

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Orange Macarons with orange curd & Cream Cheese Filling

Assalamu'alaikum ....
Merhaba from Turkiye my friends...

I thought orange season already over this April until last Wednesday I met them in my neighborhood bazar, of course the price slightly higher than usual. But who cares.. I love Orange..hehehhee.. So I bought only 2 kg for 6 turkish lira.

My Kid loves yogurt with fruit flavor so I already have an idea for it. Summer already knock the door and I'm thinking to make orange frozen yogurt later for my family dessert. It's okay, I will freeze them for it. Yes.... I love orange. We like to drink orange juice-fresh one (^,^). And since lately I just start my "macarons adventure" ... I'm thinking, why don't I make orange macarons also? It will be very refreshing and I'm sure my family will love it too... (^,^)

For the filling for this orange macarons I choose cream cheese filling with orange curd in the middle. But really you can go ahead with another filling as you like. 

This time I didn't have any left over egg white, so I use fresh (not aged) egg white. I know..some people said macarons should make from aged (stay over night) egg white. But for me I don't have any problem using new egg white-as long as your egg white is in room temperature. 

Tips: If you-in case- forget to take out your egg from fridge. Do like I usually did. Put your egg white over shimmering water for few minute while whisking it. Always check with your finger tip if your egg white already reach room temperature, remove from heat and continue whisking as procedure. 

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Dark Chocolate macarons with Chocolate coffee filling

Selam Everybody.....Merhaba from Turkey....

If it's about chocolate.. I will not convince you anymore how delish and yum anything made of it. 

How about to pair it with macarons? and then fill it with coffee cream filling....should I tell you more how they twist and complete each other and make double yum for your family dessert or coffee/ tea time with dear friends?

Okay... no more words about this dark chocolate macarons..just try this for your weekend baking.. ^,^

Make about 20 pairs (40 macarons) depending how big you pipe your macarons.

Ingredients For macarons shells:

• 80 gr egg white ( I use aged leftover egg whites)
• pinch of salt
• 60 gr caster sugar
• 130 gr icing sugar
• 80 gr almond flour
• 30 gr dark cocoa powder

How to make Macarons shells:

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Chocolate Coffee Macarons recipe

Happy Welcoming spring to you! (^,^)
Yes..middle March people in Turkey call it "Bahar karlı" means half spring half winter , from language Bahar=spring. karlı=snowy. But winter is kış mevsim in turkish language (^,^) I miss summer already tough..

I miss warm and long day light..sun shine.. clear sky with many stars at night... yes...I am tropical person in nature, who find my self here like a bear (^,^) ..hide and sleep during winter..hahahahaha...

And yep! ... my post is macarons again..!! (^,^) Who will boring with this tiny adorable things.... in fact I think it's the beginning time for my macarons adventure.

Yesterday I made this Chocolate Coffee macarons with chocolate coffee filling. The coffee flavor was so strong-which I like- together with sweet bitterness of chocolate...it was just great! .Yum..and believe me..you gonna love it too..

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Green Tea Macarons with Green Tea Chocolate filling recipe

It's like a curse for me.... or you can call it addicted.... I'm talking about baking (and eat) macarons (^,^)

Yes, once I successfully baked nice macarons these previously weeks... my mind keep thinking to bake them again and again with many idea on flavors and variation. But I'm still afraid to try other recipe .... maybe next time. You know..after long journey with many recipe's trial and error until I finally decided this recipe which suit for me... I don't think I have any dare to try other method in this nearly time....hehehehe..
Even Actually I want to try Italian meringue method for making my next macarons. But major reason is I still don't purchase candy thermometer yet.... Maybe next time , Inshaallah (^,^)

Do you like green tea? Green tea is made from the leaves from Camellia sinensis that have undergone minimal oxidation during processing. Green tea originated in China, but it has become associated with many cultures throughout Asia. Green tea has recently become relatively widespread in the West where black tea has been the traditionally consumed tea.

Green tea has become the raw material for extracts used in various beverages, dietary supplements, and cosmetic items. Many varieties of green tea have been created in the countries where it is grown. These varieties can differ substantially due to variable growing conditions, horticulture, production processing, and harvesting time.

Many claims have been made for the beneficial health effects of green tea consumption, but they have generally not been borne out by scientific investigation; excessive consumption is associated with some harmful health effects.

My today post is Matcha/ Green tea macarons with matcha Chocolate filling. The aroma during I bake this macarons it's just like soul therapy for me (^,^) . It has mild refreshing scent inside my house and since it's winter now, I didn't open any window, the scent stay long about few hours more... hhmmmm... I think you should try it too (^,^)
And here my recipe that I've been using until now before I decide to use other recipe/ methos (^,^)

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Red Velvet Macarons with Cream Cheese filling

Selam Evrybody...Merhaba from Turkey.

The recipe I use my lemon macarons recipe with few adjustment. That is also my basic macarons recipe and I'm quite happy with it. I was doing trial and error with some Red velvet macarons recipe, but finally end up with my recipe here. 

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Lemon Macarons with lemon curd filling

Yaaayyyy...!!! Finally Macarons ..! ^,^ Yes, this is my first post and my first attempt making macarons... İ don't know why gets me so long to bake them.. İ just too busy reading and reading and comparing recipes.. search about this tiny delectable dessert which everybody crazy about...Yeaahh..İ was just too worry (almost afraid) that my first batch of macarons will be my nightmare..hahahahaha.. hyperbola indeed ^,^ .... No..it's true actually.. when it come about baking, İ'm kinda traumatic person... once (mostly first time) baking something and fail... need sssooo long time for bring my baking mood back again... 
Again..İ'm sensitive person ^,^ --even in baking.

Anywaaaayyyy... today's post is my first macarons. And since İ still keep my lemon curd from last batch so İ had an idea to make lemony macarons to gets along with my lemon curd as filling later. The recipe İ took from many other's people journal about macarons..many people's note about it.. tricks and tips ... and mostly the came up with almost same recipe which you can browse also around the net. Just note from me: Don't be afraid baking your macarons, it's not as bad as you think ^,^ 

After succeed with my first attempt.. definitely there will be another second or third and fourth... need more practise to perfect my macarons. 

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Kandil Simidi / Turkish shortbread bagel

Selam everybody....Merhaba from Turkey.

İt's late post. Since İ had been a little busy with my cleaning schedule at house  before and after kandil night^,^. My today's post is about Kandil simidi. 
Kandil Simidi is a traditional Turkish simit pastry, which is eaten during the Kandil religious holiday. It is ring-shaped and coated in sesame seeds cookie-look alike. 
During the five nights of Kandil, these pastries are baked and offered to neighbors and relatives.

There are five kandil night celebration in Turkey. Kandil taken from word candle from the time of Sultan Selim II who had candles lit in the Mosques Minarets to mark the holy evenings.
The five holy evenings on the Muslim calendar are called Kandil. During the Ottoman Empire Sultan Selim II of 16th century lit candles on the minarets of the mosques in order to announce these holy nights to the public. Since this calendar is calculated with the revolution of the moon around the earth the dates of the Kandils differ every year.
Mevlid Kandili (Mawlid an-Nabi) - The birth of Prophet Mohammad
Regaip Kandili – The night of Muhammed's conception
Miraç Kandili (Lailat al Miraj) – Prophet Mohammad's rising to sky
Berat Kandili (Mid-Sha'ban) – The forgiveness of the sins
Kadir Gecesi (Laylat al-Qadr) – The Koran's first appearance to Prophet Mohammad

And as follow the tradition here in Turkey İ also made this Kandil simidi. Different from my other simit İ post before here, this kandil simidi has more or less like shortbread. And here the recipe for you who want to make, just accompany your tea or coffee.

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Black Nastar / Brown Pineapple bite for IdFB Challenge#16 Cookies

I llooovveeee making cookies...any cookies. Love to make them as much as I eat them. My family love it too. You know, in Turkey people very much love drinking tea. Anytime, any where, any occasion. Hot weather or cold weather Turkish people enjoy their tea so much. 

That tea time tradition I can not avoid in our home :). Usually we drink tea together after dinner. For me, drinking tea without any snack along with it, is like going to market without money.....hahahahahha..it just can not be! Back when I was in my homeland Indonesia, I always have traditional snack along with my morning tea as breakfast. Or some cookies in my afternoon coffee :)

So, when you are visiting our house..don't worry..we always have a jar (or two) of cookies. And those jar won't be empty (almost every time) because we love our tea with cookies along with it :)

Well, today I'll share one of my family fave ... Dark pineapple tart ( I call it black Nastar) cookies. Believe me..it's so good and almost too pretty to eat :)

This post also goes to Indonesian Food Blogger Challenge#16 Kue Kering Cookies

You can visit Indonesian Food Blogger page to see many great contents from other IdFBer's

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Sesame Cookies (Kue kering Wijen)

For us nothing more suitable in our tea/ coffee time but cookies. And this sesame cookies just perfect one for you to try also. 

Ingredients:
 250 gr butter, room temperature
 2 medium eggs, room temperature
 80 g (± 3 tablespoons) sugar
 80 g (± 1/3 cup) sesame paste
 ¼ tsp fine salt
 400 g all-purpose flour
 5 g (± 2 tsp) baking powder

To spread:
 1 egg yolk, beaten
 Sesame seeds to taste

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Kaastengel Cookies II / Cheesy cookies

Selam...Merhaba from Turkey.

One of Classic Indonesian cookies. People said it's one of Dutch's heritage recipe beside some other Indonesian classic food.

It's my second Kaastengels recipe. You can use either first recipe or this recipe, both will give you nice and perfect Cheesy cookies for your tea time with family.

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Kastengel or kue keju is Dutch-Indonesian cheese cookie in the form of stick, commonly found in the Netherlands and Indonesia. The name describe its ingredients, shape and origin; kaas is Dutch word for "cheese", while stengels is also Dutch word for "stick". Unlike most cookies, kaasstengels taste savoury and salty instead of sweet.

Ingredients: 

• 250 gr butter, soften at room temperature
• 2 egg yolks
• 1 teaspoon fine salt
• 2 ¾ cup (350 g) AP flour
• 2 tablespoons cornstarch
• 2 tablespoons powdered milk
• ¾ cup (100 g) grated cheddar cheese/ edam cheese

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Broken Heart Cookies (eggless)

Broken heart cookies? Well... you don't have to be broken heart first to eat this cookies. It's just cookies with Chocolate melted decoration. If you read recipe below and you can not find egg in it, don't worry... the recipe is correct and I did not use egg for this cookies. You  must try it and you bet you will like them so much with your afternoon tea or coffee.. (*_*)

Yield: about 50 cookies
Ingredients:
 1 package (250 grams) margarine, soften at room temperature
 ¾ cup powdered sugar (you can reduce up to ½ cup) 
 2 cup + 1 tablespoon flour
 2 tablespoons powdered milk
 2 tbsp rice flour
 ½ tsp fine salt
 1 tsp Vanilla powder
garnish:
 Semi-sweet cooking chocolate, melted

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Kue Kering PUTRI SALJU I / Snow White Cookies I

Selam everybody...Merhaba from Turkey...

Kue kering Putri Salju literally means Whi

te Snow cookies in Indonesian language. Well, I guess you already notice why it call White snow cookies right? @(^,^)@.

 It's very popular among Indonesian especially in some Holiday occasion (Idul Fitri and Christmas) beside Kaastengels, Nastar, pastel mini , Semprit susu (spritz cookies) and other traditional Indonesian Cookies.

Yield about 700 gr (125~140 cookies)

Ingredients: 

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Best Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe

Selam Everybody....Merhaba from Turkey

This chocolate chip cookies is really really become favorite treat during our tea time at home since 1st time I made them. I made them many few batches already start from last week and all of them could not survive more than 1 day ! this is the latest batch I made and survive for the picture and post in my blog d(^,^)b.

Mom, let's try it also at home.. and let's the family 

Yield: about 60 cookies.

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(mix) Fruity cookies

I always keep something in our cookies jar in case if there is family, friends or neighbors come to visit. Or it's just only for accompany our afternoon tea. Mostly chocolate cookies in it... But today I made something else. Since I found many dried fruit in my storage cabin, so why didn't I make them something? like this cookies......

Ingredients:

• 2 medium eggs 
• 250 gr unsalted butter, soften at room temperature 
• ¾ cup brown sugar 
• ½ cup sugar 
• 3 cups flour 
• 2 tsp ground ginger 
• 3 tsp ground cinnamon 
• ¼ tsp ground cloves 
• 1 tsp vanilla powder 
• ¼ tsp fine salt 
• 1 cup mixed dried fruit  
• 1 cup raisins or seeded sultanas, roughly chopped 
• ½ cup roughly chopped dried peaches (if any) 
• ½ cup pecans (or other nuts) roughly chopped 

How to make: 

1) Sift together: flour, salt, ginger powder, cinnamon powder, clove powder, vanilla powder, set aside. In a large bowl, beat together: butter, brown sugar, and sugar, beat until well blended. Beat in eggs one at a time, beat well after each addition, beat about 3  minutes more.

2) Carefully, mix in dry ingredient mixture alternately with fruit mixture plus pecans (or other peanuts). Stir with wooden spoon or spatula until blended.

3) Place the dough in plastic (I use plastic stretch) and shape it long pipe form (as shown),  wrap it carefully and  store in freezer about 40 minutes.
  Note: you can divide the batter into two equal part and wrap individually.

4) After 40 minutes, take the dough from frezer, slice with sharp knife about 0.5 cm thick. Place in baking tray lined with baking paper, do not forget to give a space about two fingers from each other. Let stand about 15 ~ 20 minutes until cookies are slightly thaw.

5) Pre heat oven at 180 ⁰C. Bake for 20 ~ 25 minutes until cooked and golden brown on surface.
Let stand until room temperature before stored in an airtight jar.

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Simply Crunchy Chocolate Chip Cookies

I am cookies and chocolate lover, and if you are in same boat, you must try this and you will agree that this one is irresistible one... @(^,^)@

Make about 30 cookies.

Ingredients:

• 120 gr butter. Soften at room temperature
• 1 cup caster sugar (add more 1/4 cup if you like sweet)
• 1 large egg
• 1 ½ cups plain flour
• 1 ½ tbsp dark cocoa powder
• 1 tsp Vanilla powder
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• ½ tsp fine salt
• 1 cup chocolate chips

Method:
1) preheat oven at 150 ⁰C. Sift and mix, flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, vanilla powder and salt. Set aside.
2) In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until smooth. Add egg and beat until sugar dissolves. Mix in flour mixture and chocolate chips, stir using a spatula / wooden spoon until blended.
3) Scoop the dough larger than marble (about 1 dessert spoon) and put it on baking sheet lined with baking paper or margarine. Make space about 3 fingers to each other. Bake in oven for 15 ~ 18 minutes. Remove from oven, allow it to room temperature before being stored in an airtight jar.

Enjoy.

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Pastel Abon Mini (with fish or beef floss filling)

Snack.. snack..snack...If you are savory snack lover... join me d(^_^)b and try this one!

You can fill it with chicken floss or meat floss also, it's even better!

Ingredients:

• 3 cup flour
• 2 eggs. Beaten.
• ¼ cup vegetable oil
• 1 teaspoon salt
• Enough water
• Beef floss or fish floss for stuffing.
• Enough cooking oil for deep fry.

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