Kaastengels a.k.a Cheese Sticks

Yesterday I was very much into baking cookies. Determined that it was the day I should start stocking up cookies for the Ied Fitr Festive. Away from the drowsy cough medicine, I stood from slightly passed 10 in the morning until around 4 in the afternoon. Pfuih...didn't really think that it would take so long to bake them. Or is it because I haven't done a lot of cookies these days?

The cookies did very well. Kiddies liked it and they finished some of them. I managed (at last) to weigh the total of cookies baked. 730g from one recipe. And the process...was killing me >:|

Imagine standing and walking only within the kitchen parameter for 6 hours, you must be asking, how much did I bake? The answer is ONE recipe. Then you'd say, "You must be joking!"...well, maybe yes maybe not. The rolling & cutting just drove me a bit mad, because then some of them would fall apart or broke when lifted to be moved to the tray. My boy also wanted to have his horse cookie cutter to be used. The horse's legs are so thin that the dough would stick in it and therefore add a lot of time to the process. You'll see how it looks like here...


But I am glad enough to know that my skill for cookies from school days hasn't vanished at all. Even so, I still prefer to bake cakes or make a big size dessert rather than making all the tiny miny types of treats.

For you whom are not familiar with the name 'Kaastengels', it is a dutch word that means cheese stick. It is usually shaped like a stick or mini-log. But with the idea that I got from NCC, which uses flower cookie cutter instead, I used my kids 'play-dough cookie cutter'. They turned out cute, though.

I adopted the recipe from my beloved mailing list: NCC Indonesia. I am delighted to discover this forum of wonderful people that helped (and still helping) me in most aspects of baking. Well, that'd be another story. Will tell you about it some other time. For now, I'd better bake some more cookies! :)