Sweetened
Condensed
Ingredients
unsalted butter
2 sticks (16 tablespoons) at room temperature
white sugar
1 3/4 cups
all-purpose flour
3 cups
salt
1 teaspoon
baking soda
1 teaspoon
1 large egg
at room temperature
2 egg yolks
at room temperature (save the rest for a meringue!)
coconut extract
1 teaspoon
cocoa powder
2 tablespoons
Thai tea concentrate
1 tablespoon
whole black sesame seeds
2 tablespoons (or 1 tablespoon sesame paste)
Directions
1.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2.
Cream butter and sugar in a stand mixer or handheld electric mixer on medium speed until light and airy, about 2 minutes. Add in egg, egg yolks to the butter-sugar mixture. Mix on medium speed until well combined, another minute.
3.
In a medium mixing bowl combine flour, salt, and baking soda.
4.
Add in your flour mixture to your wet mixture gradually, until just combined.
5.
Divide the dough roughly into fourths (there’s no fast and hard way to do this, just eye it).
6.
Make the coconut dough: add coconut extract to the 1/4 reserved bit of dough and mix until just combined.
7.
Make the black sesame dough: if you’re using whole black sesame seeds, smash them in your mortar and pestle until it turns into a paste and then mix that in with your dough. If you’re using paste, then great! Just go ahead and add that in.
8.
Make the Thai tea dough: add your concentrate and mix until combined and bright orange. If you don’t have Thai tea concentrate, I’ve found that making a highly concentrated cup of Thai tea does the trick (like 1/4 cup of mixture for a half cup of water type concentrate).
9.
Make the chocolate dough: take the last 1/4 bit of reserved dough and add in your cocoa powder and mix until combined. If you find that the dough gets too dry, add a teaspoon of water.
10.
To assemble your cookies, eyeball roughly a tablespoon of each dough mixture and roll them together (they’re quite beautiful to look at!). Don’t worry too much about exact proportions, the beauty is that each cookie looks different! This recipe yields roughly 18 cookies.
11.
Prepare your baking dish and cook until for roughly 12 to 14 minutes, until they slightly puff