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Simple butter-sugar cookie recipe for making amazing looking pink flower cookies.

Aren’t they a beauty?

These butter cookies are so easy to make and so adorable to look at. It’s a simple straight forward recipe that gives you use your creativity to make wonderful bright cookies. These cookies are an absolute beauty and makes wonderful gifts for many occasions.

I’m always on the lookout for fun recipes that my toddler will enjoy making with me. Mess apart, baking with my kid brings me a lot of joy. These colourful cookies are very easy make and with just little supervision your 3 year old can make some beautiful looking baked goodies.

Recipe Video: Pink Flower Butter Cookies

I have created a recipe video for making these butter cookies and have posted the video on my YouTube channel Bubli’s World Cuisine. It’s a step by step visual demonstration on how to make this elegant looking flower cookies at home. To see the recipe in action from start to finish, please click on the video. And for a printable version of this recipe please check the recipe card at the end of the blog:

Decorative cookies are so trendy now but that takes a lot of time and effort. Decorative cookies are fun to make but the icing needs to be perfect to give them great impact. Compared to that, these beautiful coloured cookies are very simple to make and you don’t even need icing on top.

Why I love this recipe

The recipe call for simple ingredients that we usually have at home and the end result is something gorgeous.

This is a great recipe for engaging kids in baking. Kids love to give hand in the kitchen and when the outcome is something bright and colourful, it brings joy for everybody.

These cookies make a great gift for many occasion. People will thick you have put a lot of effort in making.

These cookies just lifts up the mood. They are so beautiful to look at and serve.

Ingredients

Unsalted Butter: The recipe requires unsalted Butter. Make sure you grab the right one from the supermarket and it’s crucial to have it at room temperature.

Sugar: The recipe calls for caster sugar. If you do not have caster sugar to hand, just grind some granulated sugar and that should do the job.

Vanilla Essence: Vanilla is used for flavouring. Try to use a good quality one.

Condensed Milk: This in unusual item for cookies but makes the dough perfect for these cookies.

Flour: Just regular plain flour for making these lovely cookies.

Corn Starch: Makes the cookies denser.

Food colour: I have used gel food colouring but you can also use powder food colouring but never liquid food colour.

Sesame Seeds: Adds a nice texture and look for these cookies but it’s optional.

Please Scroll down below to recipe box for measurements.

Top Tips:

Make sure ingredients are at room temperature. This is crucial for perfect baking.

Try to use quality ingredients such as for Butter and Food colouring.

Let the dough rest. For this recipe the dough needs to rest twice. Once after kneading and once after the shapes are done. This is crucial for getting the shapes right.

Storage

If you don’t plan on serving these cookies right away, wait until they have fully cooled and then store them in an airtight container. This will keep the cookies fresh for few days. You can even put the dough in the fridge for up to two days. You must thaw it before making cookies.

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Ingredients

100 g Unsalted Butter

70 g Caster Sugar

1 tsp Vanilla Essence

30 g Condensed Milk

150 g Plain Flour

10 g Corn Starch

1 tsp Sesame Seeds

Food Colouring

Instructions

First beat Butter in a bowl for 1 minute. Add caster sugar and Vanilla beat. Add condensed milk and beat again.

Next add Flour and Corn Starch and fold everything.

Transfer the dough into a working surface and knead into a dough ball. 

Divide the dough into two and add colour to one portion.

Put cling film on the dough and let them rest in the fridge for 15 minutes.

Make some small balls with the dough (4g) and place 5 balls to make a circle. Now put a parchment paper on top of the circle and gently press the balls with something on top. You may use fondant tools to make some impression on the flower petals. Use a contrast colour for the centre petal and roll it inot some sesame seeds for an eye catching look. Let the flowers rest in the fridge again for 15 minutes.

Bake at 160 C for 15 minutes. Let cool down for 5 minutes and then transfer.

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