As the name suggests, these striped butter cookies are buttery & tasty in flavour. They seem plain, but the pattern is enough to make them look tempting.
These cookies may take a bit of time and effort to make, but it is still fun and worth it. So these cookies are mostly baked on occasions like Christmas or holidays. Kids favour these most but the adults equally like these cookies.
This one is a vegetarian version. Generally, these cookies contain eggs. Due to the strips, these cookies are also known as Zebra cookies.
The ingredients list with the measurement below will seem long if you look at the ingredients list. But that’s because they are divided into two parts- chocolate and almond dough. The dough has similar ingredients, so the list is not that long.
Apart from these essentials, you will also need parchment paper. Plastic bags for shaping is also essential.
The cookie got its name due to how it looks. So it’s only natural to focus more on its shaping. There are multiple ways you can do that.
You can go with what we have tried—flattening the dough in the plastic bags, cutting larger strips, and stacking them over one another.
Finally, cut them into thinner strips.
Then use a cookie cutter to give them shape. It will provide you with the perfect pattern in equal proportion with both the doughs.
It is similar to the first and a little hassle-free. First, flatten the dough by hand, pressing the proportion of both the doughs in an elongated or irregular shape.
Then stack the dough on the other over a parchment paper.
Roll the parchment paper into a cylindrical shape and freeze them to set the dough.
Cut the cookies into pieces. This method will have an abstract pattern. The cookies will also have both vanilla and chocolate in indefinite proportions.
We have used a similar method in our Mango Kalakand recipe, and the above images are from the video Zebra Striped Shortbread Cookies.
This one is more creative but also needs effort. To make this, roll the chocolate dough into small pieces with your hands. Chill for half hour.
Roll the vanilla dough flat with a rolling pin on a plastic wrap. The vanilla dough needs to be frozen and wrapped in plastic for half-hour. The dough will be quite hard.
Then place the long pieces of the chocolate dough over it.
Then cover them with another sheet of plastic and roll once again.
Cut them into the desired shape and bake. It will give a professional look.
Source: Zebra Cookies
As mentioned before, people prepare these cookies during Christmas or such holidays. Therefore, if you wish to make this on Christmas, it is only appropriate to give it a festive touch.
You have to make multiple batches of frozen vanilla dough beforehand, or better yet, make it in more proportion and separate them equally. Then, use the food colouring with the Christmas theme in them.
You can use as many colours as you like. Repeat the shaping process. Use a Christmas tree mould to get the shape. But remember to cut the strips wide and tall enough to fit the cookie cutter.
Source: www.cookingchanneltv.com
Yes, using confectioner’s sugar can work. Besides, the sugar will easily mix up, and you won’t have a hard time combining the ingredients.
No, these cookies are not the same as shortbread. They both are different. The shortbread cookies are more rustic than this. Moreover, shortbreads do not have leavening agents like baking soda or baking powder. We are using baking soda here. Hence, these are different. Both are equally tasty, though.
The only vegan product in this recipe we are using is butter. Therefore, making this cookie vegan won’t be too difficult. Just replace the butter with its vegan substitute readily available in the market.
That can be a substitute for butter here. Both are fats, helping in adding moisture and tenderizing the gluten. Butter provides a much richer texture, though and melts quicker. Shortening is flavourless and has a high melting point. Keep these in mind while swapping them.
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