Mandy and I baked some cute hello kitty cookie for the upcoming Valentine’s Day and our kids love them so much. They love the cookie not only because of the cute shape, they like it because the cookie has their favorite cereal taste in it.
Together with the Sweet Heart Sugar Cubes, this duo will make a perfect tea time or coffee time for all darling occasions to celebrate with, especially Valentine’s Day.
We baked them with 2 types of cookie cutters, Hello Kitty cookie cutters with facial stamping set and the other one are over the rim coffee cup cookie cutter.
The cookies are pretty easy and quick to bake and you can use other shapes of cookie cutters too. I put a link on the recipe section below where you can buy the Hello Kitty cookie cutters with facial stamping set from Amazon but you can use another equivalent cookie cutter of your choice that you can find from your local shop.
As for the cookie hanging over the rim of the coffee cup, you can use the specialty cookie cutters which already has had the notch design in it or you may simply cut the notch from the cookie dough with a knife.
More Valentine’s Day idea, click here, or, go ahead to bake the cookies.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Hello Kitty Cookie
Makes 22 pieces | Prep Time: 15 minutes | Bake Time: 35 minutes
Recipe adapted and modified from Cartoon Cookies (Y3K Cookbooks)
ISBN#: 978-967-0328-00-3Ingredients:
125g Butter (room temperature)
50g Icing sugar
125g Plain / All-purpose flour
75g Potato starch
50g milled cereal – we used cornflakes
Heart shaped decoration sugar (large)
Round shaped decoration sugar (small)Method:
Preheat oven to 130-140 degree C. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Combine Butter and icing sugar in a large bowl, mix well.
Add in sieved plain flour, potato starch, and milled cereal. Mix again.
Pour onto the tabletop, knead with your palms to form a dough.
Roll out the dough to ¼” thick, use Hello Kitty shape cookie cutters to make cutouts. Arrange the cutouts on the lined baking sheet, 1” apart.
Place the large heart shape decoration sugar on as the ribbon and some round decoration sugar as the eyes and nose.
Bake in the preheated oven for 30-35 minutes till cooked through. Cool on a wire rack. Store in airtight container when cooled completely.
Cook’s Note:
1. The purpose of using low temperature to bake the cookies is to retain the pale color of the Hello Kitty face.
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Prepare all the ingredients as shown above.
Preheat oven to 130-140 degree C. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Combine butter and icing sugar in a large bowl, mix well.
Add in sieved plain flour, potato starch, and milled cereal. Mix again.
Pour onto a tabletop, knead with your palms to form a dough.
Roll out the dough to ¼” thick.
Use Hello Kitty cookie cutters to make cut-outs then create the facial with the stamp. You can buy the Hello Kitty cookie cutter here at Amazon.
Arrange the cut-outs on the lined baking sheet, 1” apart.
Place large heart-shaped decoration sugar as the ribbon and some round decoration sugar confetti as the eyes and nose.
Use an over-the-rim cookie cutter to make coffee cup hello kitty cookies that can be hung on the rim of the cup. If you can’t find the cutter, you may cut the notch with a knife.
Tips:
Other names of the cutter are: cup adorning cookie cutters, notched cookie cutters, over the rim cookie cutters, coffee cup cookie cutters, over the edge cookie cutters.
Bake in the preheated oven for 30-35 minutes till cooked through.
Cool on a wire rack.
Store in an airtight container when cooled completely.
Can we use milk powder here?
Possible.
Can we substitute the Milled to something else? Like flour or something.
You may substitute with other cereal.
Hi Joanne! Thanks for sharing this super-cute cookie recipe. Although I can find the pink with facial stamp, I can’t seem to find the hanging one. Where did you get the hanging hello kitty cookie cutter? Is it possible to purchase them online?
Hi Una,
We bought the “over the rim coffee cup cookie cutter” from a local shop and I also can’t find it from any online shop that I know. Anyway, you do not really need the special cookie cutter to make this “over the rim” cookies, you can cut the notch out from the cookie dough after you have had them cut out from your hello kitty cookie cutter.
Hi
I just tried baking your cookies. The milled cereal, is it we hv to crush cornflakes till powdery form? Also can we substitute it with others (eg cereal or oatmeal)? coz My cornflakes was not crushed properly, somehow affects the texture tho still melt in the mouth (abit like German cookies but with added fragrance from the cereal).
Hi Janet,
We milled the cornflakes until powdery form, coarser mill will give another texture as you have experienced. We haven’t really tried it with oatmeal, it should work well except that they will taste differently.
so lovely to have those crafts
I follow ur measurement… but y my dough does not stick together?
125g Butter (room temperature)
50g Icing sugar
125g Plain / All-purpose flour
75g Potato starch
50g cornflakes
What butter u use? Salt or unsalt butter?
I used Anchor brand salted butter but unsalted butter works too. The dough should be just wet enough to combine, but if you room temperature is too cold then perhaps you will need to knead a little more with your palm to melt the butter.
Hi wanna ask is it general purpose flour same with all purpose flour ?
Yes, General Purpose Flour is the same as All-Purpose Flour.
Similar to those fond memories causing Festival Pet Cookies all of us binged on as
kids.
I love these cookies and want to make them for my daughter’s first birthday! I was wondering what did you use for the eyes and nose? I have been looking but can’t seem to find anything that will fit.
Thanks,
Deena
Thank you, Deena. We decorated the eyes with small round shaped decoration sugar. If you can’t a suitable confetti sugar to use, you may use the icing pen to paint it.
Hi,
ive tried this recipe but I replaced potato starch & cereal with corn and almond ground. It works well but a bit soft. the taste is yummy!!! Love it
Hi again!! Can I check with you, how long can I keep the cookie dough in the fridge for if I am not using it?
Hi Val, I am not sure how long can you keep the cookie dough in the fridge but as rule of thumbs, any food storage in the fridge should not be more than a week. If you need longer storage time eg. 1 month, perhaps you can freeze it, thaw in the fridge 2 days before the baking day.
Hi! I’ve been using this recipe for any occasions since August 2014 and it’s really really delicious! However, can I ask for some advices in terms of designs? Christmas is coming and I understand google do help in such situation. But this recipe unlike normal butter cookies, it doesn’t taste well with royal icing ): Please advice! Thanks!
I haven’t tested the taste of the cookies with royal icing. I have another 2 cookie recipes that go well with royal icing, perhaps you might want to use that recipes as well.
1. Gingerbread Cookie Recipe
2. Animal Cookie Recipe
Happy baking!!!
Thank you for the advice! But I’m looking for a cookie recipe that doesn’t require royal icing ):
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Thank you so much for your reply. I just realised there a loads of mistake in my messages. Sorry I was rushing 🙂 LMAF when reading it. I will try as you suggested thanks.
No worries, I can understand 🙂 Best of luck!!!
Hello
I am going to make this for my 3 years bday. Thank you for your recipe. I don’t not what went wrong but my daughter doesn’t seem to stick together like your shown picture. Is a bit crumby…can I add milk to make it stick?
I use a mixer to mix the dough… Please let me know… Thanks
Probably something went wrong with your measurement. Knead your dough to try to combine them, if the measurement is right, the dough should be combined, otherwise, add a little melted butter to the dough and knead, add a teaspoon at a time until they just combine.
Hi
My daughter’s birthday is in 3 weeks time and I did a trial run of a batch. The cookies were perfect. They tasted great only problem was once I rolled the dough out, pressed the cookie cutter for the design, I found it difficult to transfer them on to the baking tray. Please help as I want to make a large quntity for her birthday. Thanks
I line my table with greaseproof paper (shiny side up) and floured it before starting the rolling and cutting. I have no problem on picking the dough up after that. Hope this helps.
Hi lovely recipe! Can I substitute the potato starch with corn starch? Thanks!
Sure you can substitute it with corn starch 🙂
Do u need to chill the dough before cutting it ?
If your dough becomes too soft due to warm weather, you may chill it before cutting. Otherwise, it is not necessary.
What is potato starch…..where can it be found, please? Thanks!
Potato starch is common here but not every country has it, you can always replace potato starch with corn starch.
May I know what’s a milled cereal? Can it be done at home? Plz advise
Yes, you can definitely do it at home. Place cornflakes or any of your favorite cereal in a zipper bag, push out all the air and seal it, use a roller pin to crush the cereal. That’s it, simple!
Hi, may i know can i substitute potato starch with corn starch? Instead of milled cereal, can i use ground almond powder? Thanks.
I haven’t tried to substitute the ingredients with potato starch and ground almond powder. Theoretically, you can substitute them but the taste and texture will be completely different from this cookies recipe. If you ever try it out, kindly share with us the outcome of the cookies. Thanks 🙂
Hi Joanne! I normally don’t do rolled cookies as I’m quite impatient. But I couldn’t resist these & made them for my niece’s birthday. They are not only pretty but delicious – crisp with a silky texture & a bit of crunch from the cereals (I didn’t have enough cornflakes & topped up with digestive biscuits). Thank you for sharing the recipe. (I got my cutters from the local bakery supplies shop but for your readers info I’ve seen the cookie cutters on aliexpress.com). Cheers!
You have perfectly described the taste and texture of the cookies!!! The digestive biscuits option sound great…. I will try this 🙂 Thanks!
Thank you SO much. I had looked on Amazon but guess I did not use the right search words. You are so kind to answer me back. I am so excited to make these for my feisty little granddaughter, she is 7 going on 20!
I also left you another comment as I made your adorable little macaron coin purse and linked to your site.
Thank you again. Joy Dewhirst
You are most welcome, Joy. Hope you have fun with the cookie and macaron purse.
Love this so much. I just ordered the cookie cutters so I can make for my sweet granddaughter. I cannot find the heart shaped decoration sugar and that is what really makes this cookie. Any suggestions where I might find this item. Thank you so much for your wonderful blog. I made the Macaron coin purse this last week, what fun, thank you again.
Joy Dewhirst
I bought the sugar hearts sprinkles from my local bakery supplies shop and I did a search in Amazon and found 2 products that look similar, this
and this
. Please ask the shop about the size of the heart, mine measured about
3/8″1/2″.Hope this helps.