After making the CNY cookies last month, I sort of fell in love with…
Copycat Jenny Bakery Butter Cookies 珍妮曲奇网红版
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Serve with a cup of hot tea or coffee.

Have you heard of Jenny Bakery? It is a very famous bakery shop in Hong Kong, selling butter cookies.
I received a box of Jenny Bakery’s butter cookies from my friend who returned from Hong Kong. And wow, it’s really yummy!! The cookies had this buttery scent. Coupled with the crisp yet melty texture from the cookie – this IS the cookie for cookie lovers!
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How Are These Cookies Different?
Unlike most cookies that are crunchy, these buttery cookies have slightly crisp edges and also a melt-in-mouth texture.
They also taste quite light, and not greasy. Best to serve with a hot cup of your favourite beverage!
I have also added some purple sweet potato powder into part of the cookie dough, so it has a slight pinkish hue.
>> MORE CHINESE NEW YEAR COOKIE RECIPES:
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- Golden Salted Egg Yolk Pineapple Tarts
- Cashew Almond Cookies (Kid Friendly)
- Pandan Coconut Cookies
- Tom Yum Cookies
What Ingredients Do I Need?
Just easy 5 ingredients to make these delicious cookies!
- Plain Flour
- Cornstarch
- Unsalted Butter
- Icing Sugar: Icing sugar helps to make these cookies melt-in-mouth. Do not substitute with caster sugar.
- Purple Sweet Potato Powder: This is optional. If you don’t have this powder, you can also use some pink food gel coloring to color the dough pink.
How to Pipe The Dough?
Firstly, you will just need to place the original dough vs the colored dough on opposite sides of the piping bag, so that the colors can be piped out nicely.
There are various ways that you can do the piping. For the rosettes you see here, I am using Wilton 2D nozzle.
Simply start from the centre of the rosette and move outwards in a circle shape, and it will form the rosette. You will need to position your hand with some space above the baking paper to do this.


Copycat Jenny Bakery Butter Cookies 珍妮曲奇网红版
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Total Time: 45 minutes
- Yield: 25 Cookies 1x
Description
Buttery and melt-in-mouth butter cookies for cookie lovers!
Ingredients
- 147 g plain flour
- 3 g cornstarch
- 150 g unsalted butter, softened slightly at room temperature
- 23 g icing sugar
- 1.5 to 2 tsp purple sweet potato powder (optional)
Instructions
- Beat softened butter and icing sugar in a mixing bowl till light and fluffy.
- Add in flour and cornstarch. Mix well.
- If you would like to make a 2 tone cookie, remove slightly less than 1/2 of the cookie dough into another bowl. Add in purple sweet potato powder and mix well. You can also use food coloring gel if you like.
- Place original cookie dough into piping bag (only on 1 side), fitted with Wilton 2D nozzle (or any nozzle preferred). Place the colored cookie dough into the other side of the piping bag.
- Pipe out cookie dough onto lined baking tray. Bake in preheated oven at 160C for 15-20 mins, or till evenly browned.
- Cool completely on wire rack before storing in air tight container.
Notes
The cookie will hold up better after baking if the dough is chilled slightly. To prevent the warmth from your hand “melting” the cookie dough when you pipe, you might want to separate the cookie dough into 2 piping bags.
- Category: Cookie
- Method: Bake
Keywords: Cookie
Hi, i made these today. They're nice and buttery but more salty than sweet! Can i increase the icing sugar without affecting the texture?
Hi! I did not use salt here. Is it because your butter is salted? 😉 Most of the time, I use unsalted butter in my bakes. Try unsalted butter and it should be better!
Ah yes i used salted golden churn butter! sorry about that and thanks for the recipe. i'm going to make a double batch today 🙂
Sorry! I seemed to miss out on your reply. Hope it turned out well for you, and I am also going to make these again for CNY this year! 😉
Hi Cherie, i would like to know if its possible to have tangerine flavored Jenny cookies? since we have alots of leftover tangerines from CNY… Looking forward to hearing from you. Luv your cute tang yuan too! Thank you.
Hi there Cynthia, thank you for loving the tang yuan too! : ) Usually if we want to incorporate citrus flavors in cookies, we will try to add the zest in the dough, as adding juice may make the cookies not crunchy. You should be able to zest the tangerine using microplane, just that I have not tried zesting tangerines before.
Or you can also juice the tangerines, and use the juice to make chiffon cake. I have an old post (orange chiffon) that you might want to consider: https://cherienoms.com/2015/11/orange-chiffon-cake.html