Do you know Jackson Pollock?
He is an American abstract expressionist painter.
Last weekend, I baked some cookies and used his "drip" technique to decorate them! Don't you think this is easy and COOL!?
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Action Painting Cookies
Difficulty: Easy
Time: 2.5hrs (15min preparation, 15min cooking, 2hrs ready in)
Number of servings: 20 cookies
Ingredients:
60g (2.1oz.) butter (softened)
30g (1oz.) sugar
1 egg yolk
A
* 95g (3.3oz.) all-purpose flour
* 2 tbsp. cocoa powder
* a pinch of baking powder
chocolate pens or colored icing of your choice
Directions:
1. Beat butter and sugar until creamy, add egg yolk and mix well.
2. Sift A in 1. and mix well.
3. Press and shape dough into a log (1.5 inches in diameter) and wrap in plastic wrap or waxed paper. Refrigerate dough for at least 2 hours until very firm.
4. Preheat oven to 350F (180C). Cut in 0.25-inch slices and place on a greased cookie sheet about an inch apart.
5. Bake at 350F (180C) for 12-15 minutes. Cool the cookies on the sheet and action-paint them with chocolate pens or colored icing of your choice.
6. These are the chocolate pens I used.
My original recipe in Japanese is here.
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Action Painting Cookies
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