Purple Velvet Cheese Cookies

 

Cookie Dough Base:

240 g (1 cup + 1 tbsp) Unsalted Butter, room temperature (I used Anchor)

60 g (4 tablespoons) Cream Cheese (Mascarpone or Philadelphia cheese), chilled

150 g (2/3 cup) Caster Sugar

2 teaspoons Vanilla Essence

1/8 Salt

55 g Egg White (from about 1 ½ egg)

300 g (2 ½ cups) All Purpose Flour

 

Purple Velvet Cheese Piped Cookies:

150 g of Cookie Dough Base

About ½ teaspoon Purple Food Coloring

3 teaspoons All Purpose Flour: it depends how much food coloring you’ve added

 

Cut-Out Purple Velvet Cheese Cookies:

About 300 g (10,5 oz) of Cookie Dough Base (the half of cookie dough base leftover)

About 1 teaspoon Purple Food Coloring

About 4 tablespoons All Purpose Flour: add gradually until the dough will pull away from the bowl and won’t stick to your fingers.

 

 Cut-Out White Cheese Cookies:

About 300 g of Cookie Dough Base (the half of cookie dough base leftover)

About 30 g (2 1/2 tablespoons) All Purpose Flour: add gradually until the dough will pull away from the bowl and won’t stick to your fingers.

 

Decorations:

Purple, White and Blue sprinkles

Melted white chocolate

Blueberry Jam

 

 

 

Purple Velvet Cheese Piped Cookies

For these cookies, get a softer but firm dough. It should be soft enough for you to pipe out from a piping bag using rosette nozzle.

Refrigerate until you bake.

 

For

Purple Velvet Linzer Cheese Cookies and Purple Velvet Cheese Doughnut and Heart Cookies

Take about 150g to 200gm of the white dough and use cutters to get a base. It depends on how many designs you want to do. You can use more dough or lesser. Advisable to roll out to 0.6cm and ¼ in thickness. Use the desired cookie cutters to make shapes.

Take about 150gm of purple dough and use cutters to get a base for the purple coloured linzer cookies. Advisable to roll out to 0.6cm and ¼ in thickness.

For Linzer cookies, sandwich the baked white cookies with blueberry jam and purple cookies with melted white chocolate.

While for the doughnut cookies, deep in white chocolate and sprinkle with coloured sprinkles. For the  heart shape cookies, deep partially in melted white chocolate and sprinkle with some almond nips.

Purple Velvet Spiral Cheese Cookies and Purple Velvet Star Cheese Cookies

Roll out equal amount of red and white dough. Place the flatten white dough carefully on top of then purple dough.  Then cut out in a rectangular shape. The leftover dough or scrape to make marble cookies.

Roll one end of the dough up to the end. Roll and wrap in a baking paper and keep refrigerated for at least 1 to 2 hrs or until the dough is firm to slice out, ¼ in with a knife.

For the left-over scraps, roll and cut out using the desired cookie cutters. I used small star shapes.

 

Bake all these cookies in a 170C preheated oven for about 8 to 12mins depending on the size and thickness. Leave to cool before decorating.

Use your creativity to design and decorate the cookies.