SMARTIE COOKIES….
I call these ‘Smartie Cookies’ because I once had many bags of Smarties on hand and didn’t know what to do with them. So decided to decorate some cookies with them for my son’s birthday…this was many years ago. Since they were a HUGE hit, I’ve always included them on the menu at kids parties. Its such fun to see little hands grabbing at them like there’s no tomorrow!! Smarties can be substituted with M ‘n’ M’s.
Ingredients:
Butter – ¾ cup (room temp)
Castor Sugar- 1 cup (I grind sugar crystals in my coffee grinder)
Egg – 1 / beaten
Flour – 2 ½ cups
Salt – 1 pinch
Almond Essence/Extract – 1 tsp
Vanilla Essence/Extract – 1 tsp
Method:
- Preheat the oven to 190deg C. Keep 5-6 ungreased cookie sheets on hand.
- Beat the butter and sugar till fluffy and light.
- Add the salt + vanilla essence + almond essence and beat for 30 seconds.
- With a spatula mix in the beaten egg.
- Put in all the flour in one go, and gather together to make a firm dough.
- Chill for at least 30 minutes in wrap.
- Roll out to ¼ inch thickness and cut with assorted cookie cutters.
- Decorate with Smarties (or M ‘n’ M’s), and silver dragees if desired.
- Bake on ungreased cookie sheets for 12-14 minutes, watching closely so that they don’t get too brown.
- Remove from oven; let the cookies lay on the sheet for a minute. Remove to racks to cool.
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This recipe makes approximately 8-9 dozen 1 ½” small cookies.
Note: You can flavour these with any other extract of your choice; or just leave them plain vanilla if you like. I think orange and lemon may work well with these, though I haven’t tried it myself.
Keep an eye on the cookies towards the end of the baking time. If you find a couple browning before others, remove them from the sheet onto cookie rack, and return remaining cookies on sheet to the oven.
Deeba @ PAB
About me: I am a freelance food writer, recipe developer and photographer. Food is my passion - baking, cooking, developing recipes, making recipes healthier, using fresh seasonal produce and local products, keeping a check on my carbon footprint and being a responsible foodie! I enjoy food styling, food photography, recipe development and product reviews. I express this through my food photographs which I style and the recipes I blog. My strength lies in 'Doing Food From Scratch'; it must taste as good as it looks, and be healthy too. Baking in India, often my biggest challenge is the non-availability of baking ingredients, and this has now become a platform to get creative on. I enjoy cooking immensely as well.
7 Comments
meeso
I love Smarties! My daughter always saves them for me if she comes across them…this is a really neat idea for kids!
Judy @ No Fear Entertaining
I love smarties. And the cookies would be the best. For some reason M&M’s are just not the same. My cildren being American think that smarties are those awful powdery, sugar like candies that you get in a roll at Halloween. Must get my Mom to bring me smarties at Christmas and I will bake these cookies!!
Anh
Your cookies are so pretty! ANd I love anything pretty 😉
Sophie
These are so pretty! Your way of decorating desserts is wonderful, I have yet to learn how to do this!
zlamushka
This is truly the most elegant one. Love the Christmas colors… Thank you so much for all these entries. I am so happy to see you enjoying the event this much! Hope your family did , as well.
I am very happy to have discovered your blog through Spoonful of Christmas. I ll be comming back now more often 😉
anju
ur cookies are really yummy….tried it and loved it…kids prefered the vanilla cookies…
aparna
I will definetely try these. Thanks for the receipe.