Chili Cinnamon Cookies Food

CHILI PEPPER COOKIES

Steps:

• In a small bowl, cream shortening and sugars until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg, milk and vanilla. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours or until easy to handle., On a lightly floured surface, roll and pat out dough to 1/4-in. thickness. Cut with a floured 3-1/2-in. chili pepper shaped cookies cutter. , Place 1 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 325° for 6-8 minutes or until edges are lightly browned. Remove to wire racks to cool., In a small bowl, beat the butter, confectioners' sugar, vanilla and enough milk until frosting reaches desired consistency. Tint 1/3 cup green; set aside. Tint remaining frosting red. Frost "peppers" red and "stems" green; sprinkle with matching sugar.

CINNAMON ROLL COOKIES

Steps:

• Sift together all-purpose flour, baking soda, and salt in a bowl.
• Beat together butter and shortening using an electric mixer in another bowl until combined; add sugar and continue beating until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Pour in eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Pour in flour mixture and blend until batter is smooth.
• Dust a work surface with flour and roll out cookie dough with a floured rolling pin into a 1/4-inch thick rectangle. Sprinkle cinnamon generously over the dough. Roll up the dough gently into a log starting on one of the long sides. Wrap tightly in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 2 to 3 hours.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Unwrap the dough log and carefully slice into 1/4-inch pieces without smashing down the cookie. Place on an ungreased baking sheet.
• Bake in the preheated oven until lightly golden around the edges, about 12 minutes.

CHOCOLATE CHIP CHILI COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream the butter and sugars.
• Beat in the egg and vanilla essence.
• Sift flour, cocoa, cinnamon, chili, ginger and baking soda into the creamed mixture, and mix.
• Fold through the chocolate bits.
• Take approximately a tablespoon of the mix and form it into a ball and then press down with fork, place on baking tray leaving a little room for spreading.
• Bake for 15- 18 minutes at 350F Allow to cool slightly.
• Sift the icing sugar and cinnamon into a bowl and toss the biscuits in the mixture one at a time and then put on a wire rack to cool.

CINNAMON COOKIES

Steps:

• Beat the butter, muscovado sugar, caster sugar and 2 tsp cinnamon together with an electric whisk for 2-3 mins until well-combined. Add the egg, flour, baking powder and raisins, if using, and continue to beat until the mixture becomes a uniform dough. Roll tablespoons of the dough into balls between the palms your hands (you should have 12-15). Chill in the fridge for at least 2 hrs until firm, or overnight. The unbaked dough balls will keep in an airtight container in the freezer for up to three months (see tip, below).
• Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan/ gas 4 and line two large baking trays with baking parchment. Place the dough balls 3-4cm apart on the prepared baking trays to allow the mixture to spread without touching. Bake for 10-12 mins until lightly golden at the edges but still soft and gooey in the centre. Leave to cool completely on the baking trays.
• Mix the icing sugar with the remaining cinnamon, then dust over the cookies. Will keep in an airtight container for up to five days.

CINNAMON COOKIES

Steps:

• In a mixer bowl, cream together sugar and butter; beat in egg and vanilla.
• Combine flour, cinnamon, baking powder and salt.
• Add to butter mixture.
• Blend well.
• Cover and refrigerate 2 hours or till firm enough to roll into balls.
• Shape dough into small balls about 3/4-inch in diameter.
• Roll in cinnamon sugar to coat.
• Set cookies 1-inch apart on lightly greased cookie sheets.
• Bake at 350° for 10 minutes or till the edges are lightly browned.
• Cool slightly on pans, then remove to racks to cool completely.

CINNAMON COOKIES II

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).
• Cream together butter and sugar.
• Mix in egg and molasses, blending well.
• Mix flour, baking soda and cinnamon; add to creamed mixture, mixing well.
• Drop by teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake for 10 to 12 minutes.

CHILI-CINNAMON COOKIES

Steps:

• If you are using dried chili crunch them as fine as possible and measure then 1/2 teaspoon.
• In the bowl of your food processor add the first six ingredients.
• Heat a pan over medium high heat and roast the grounded almonds until golden. Immediately remove from heat and add to the other ingredients.
• Cut butter into pieces and add to flour mixture. Add egg yolk.
• Mix in your food processor until dough is formed. Take dough out of the bowl, knead once or twice and then form a roll (this will make it easier to divide dough later).
• Wrap dough roll into cling film a put it into fridge for 30 minutes. Line out baking tray(s) with parchment paper.
• Take dough out of the fridge and cut roll into 10 slices. Cut each slice into 4 pieces. You should now have 40 little dough pieces.
• Roll each pice into a roll of about 3 to 4 inches in lenght. The middle of each roll should be a bit thicker and let the roll taper off towards the ends. Put the rolls onto the baking tray forming a "C" (half-moon shape).
• Put the baking tray(s) in a cold place for about 30 to 60 minutes.
• Meanwhile preheat oven (390 F, 200 C).
• Bake the cookies for 10 minutes. Let them cool completely on a cooling rack. Dust them with (unsweetened) cacao powder.
• NOTE: cooking time is given for one baking tray. Time to make includes 60 minutes for cooling the dough.
• NOTE: I put the cookies on the baking tray into the fridge for 30 minutes. It is important to keep the formed cookies for 30 minutes in a cold place. The butter in the cookies has to be cooled completely.
• NOTE: these cookies are very spicy. If you don't like them spicy reduce the amount of cayenne pepper / dried chili pepper.