This is a very easy, quick, low-cost recipe. I bake these when something quick and plenty is needed. I used to bake these for school when the kids had to take something home made.
This time I baked them in my daughter’s dorm. She and her friends seemed to enjoy them. It is always lovely to come to a room with cookie smell, I guess it is one of the things they miss a lot.
The recipe is below. If you do not have icing sugar you can use granulated sugar, just increase the amount a little bit. You can knead with your hands or you can use a processor.
As in the Phillipine puto seco recipe using starch in cookies help cookies to remain fresh for longer. Despite this, cookies using starch still have a more a crumbly consistency.
What is the correct starch type to use?
Wheat starch or rice starch is mostly used in milk desserts and sweet pastries, while corn starch is mostly used in salty recipes or sauces where binders are needed.
These cookies get better the next day and stay just as good for the next couple of days. You do not even have to worry about keeping them covered.
Just enjoy and dream about your mom cooking you cookies again.
If you have enjoyed this recipe you might also like my Sesame Cookies.
Starch Cookies
Ingredients
- 125 grams butter room temperature
- 90 grams icing sugar
- 2 eggs room temperature
- 400 grams wheat starch
- 100 grams flour
- 10 grams baking powder
- 10 grams vanilla extract
Instructions
- Mix well 90 grams icing sugar and 125 grams butter. If caster sugar is not available, add about 125 grams of granulated sugar.
- Add the eggs one by one. Mix.
- Add 100 grams of flour and also the baking and vanilla powder. Mix again.
- Then first add about 200 grams of wheat starch, mix. Then add remaining 200 grams of starch slowly and mix. Stop adding starch when your dough is ready.
- You should obtain a soft and non-stick dough.
- Without waiting make small, walnut sized buns and place them on an oven tray. Make sure they do not touch each other as they will rise. Either use an oven sheet or spread some liquid oil such as corn oil on the tray so the cookies do not stick on the bottom.
- Cook about 10-15 minutes in a pre-heated oven at 170° Celsius. After 5 minutes reduce the heat to 150° Celsius. Take the tray out of the oven when the cookies slightly change color.