Dopamine Cookies
These vibrant dopamine cookies are guaranteed to boost your mood! Bursting with colour and fun, they’re the perfect treat to brighten anyone's day.
Bake your way to happiness with these brightly coloured dopamine cookies! Crispy and deliciously fun, they’re the ultimate feel-good cookie for any occasion. We cannot stop smiling when looking at (and eating) these cookies!
If happiness had a flavour, it would taste just like these Dopamine Cookies. Bright, colourful, and full of good vibes, they’re little bursts of joy straight from your Thermomix. With their buttery crunch and pops of vibrant colour, these cookies are guaranteed to lift your mood and make any day feel a little sunnier. Bake them whenever you need a dose of fun, or a quick hit of happy! They make the perfect gift year round, but theme then with red white and green for Christmas and bake someone happy!
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Need
- 300 Grams bakers or strong flour BUY
- 1.5 Teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1.5 Teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/2 Teaspoon ground cardamom
- 0.5 Teaspoons baking powder
- Pinches pink salt flakes BUY
- 170 Grams butter cubed, soft BUY
- 200 Grams raw caster sugar BUY
- zest of 2 oranges
- 1 Teaspoon vanilla bean paste BUY
- 1 eggs
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Royal Icing
- 6 egg whites
- 1 Kilo icing mixture
- natural food colourings of your choice, we suggest 4 colours
Do
- 1
Place flour, spices, baking powder and salt in the Thermomix bowl. Mix 10 sec/speed 8. Set aside.
- 2
Place butter into Thermomix bowl. Add sugar, orange zest, vanilla and egg. Mix 1 min/Butterfly/speed 3.
- 3
Remove Butterfly. Add flour mixture. Combine 12 sec/dough setting/Interval. Finish combining with a spatula.
- 4
Roll dough out to roughly 30 x 40 cm. Place on a tray. Refrigerate until firm.
- 5
Preheat oven to 175°C. Line 2 trays with baking paper.
- 6
Cut dough into rectangles (we cut them to 2.5 cm x 4 cm). Place onto prepared trays . Bake 10-12 minutes. Cool.
- 7
To make the royal icing, place egg whites into the Thermomix bowl. Whip 4 min/37°C/Butterfly/speed 3.
- 8
Add half the icing mixture and combine 1 min/Butterfly/speed 4. Add remaining icing sugar and combine 1 min/Butterfly/speed 4. Until fully incorporated.
- 9
Divide royal icing between 4 bowls. Keep covered with a damp towel to avoid drying out.
- 10
Colour the royal icing as desired.
- 11
Place cookies on a wire rack. Set the rack over a baking paper lined tray (to catch the drips).
- 12
Pour royal icing over the cookies, in whatever way/pattern you like. Allowing it to drip off so that they're completely covered. Separate cookies before the icing sets. Let them stand at room temperature, uncovered, to set completely overnight.
- 13
In hindsight, we think that dipping them in white royal icing first, then colouring them with whichever colours you like, will be easier for full icing coverage.
Tenina Holder is a wife, mother of five and grandmother of nine, who started cooking in the olden days before Thermomix was even a thing.
Tenina has become the premium go to source for all Thermomix expertise and of course fresh and easy recipes that work. Her cooking classes and foodie trips are sold out in literally hours, her cookbooks appear on the Australian best seller lists and her social reach is in the millions. Her Insider Club is the most fun you can have with a Thermomix and you really should join her! She believes chocolate, butter and salt are health foods. Her food positivity mantra is, eat everything, just not all at once!
