cookies

Biscotti truly taste best freshly baked! These Biscotti taste paradise. Studded with orange zest and cranberries, they have a warm and cozy spirit. Apt as winter delicacies, they sum up as perfect treats with the evening tea and coffee!

Ingredients:

2/3 cup sugar

1/2 cup vegetable oil

1 tbsp grated orange peel

1 1/2 tsp vanilla

2 eggs

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

3/4 cup dried cranberries, coarsely chopped

1 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp salt

Method:

• Heat oven to 350°F. In large bowl, stir together sugar, oil, orange peel, vanilla and eggs. Stir in remaining ingredients.

• Place dough on lightly floured surface. Knead until smooth. On an ungreased cookie sheet, shape half of dough at a time into 10×3-inch rectangle.

• Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool on cookie sheet for 15 minutes. Cut rectangle crosswise into 1/2-inch slices. Turn slices cut sides down on cookie sheet.
• Bake about 15 minutes longer, turning once, until crisp and light brown. Immediately remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.

Brighten your summer holidays with these d-licious Orange and Coconut cookies that are the perfect grab-and-go kind of cookies and make you so refreshed with the touch of orange in them. Super easy to make, crispy, and surprisingly addictive!

Ingredients:

125 gms – Butter

1 cup – whole wheat flour

1 cup – all purpose flour

1 cup – Sugar

1 cup – Dessicated coconut

Zest of 1 orange

1 tbsp raisins

1 – Egg

A pinch – salt

2 tbsp – Orange juice

Method:

• Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg beat well. Stir in sifted dry ingredients, orange juice, coconut and raisins.
• Bind into a dough and refrigerate for at least 30-40 minutes.
• Roll mixture into small balls – the size of a walnut.
• Press on three sides with a fork to create a design.
• Place on lightly greased oven trays.
• Bake in microwave at 180 degrees for 12-15 minutes minutes or until light golden brown.
• Enjoy with your cup of morning coffee or evening tea.

Whether its a party, a simple feast or just another Sunday in your life, these cookies will remain one of the favorite snacks as they are super easy to make and full of the freshness of cardamom. even if you don’t like cardamom, you are sure to fall in love with these cookies with the first bite itself!

Ingredients:

1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature

¾ cup sugar

1 egg

1 ½ tsp vanilla extract

2 cup all-purpose flour

¾ tsp ground cardamom

½ tsp salt

¼ tsp nutmeg

Method:

• Beat butter and sugar together by hand or in a mixer, until pale and fluffy. Blend in egg and vanilla extract. In a separate bowl, stir together flour, cardamom, and salt. Stir into butter mixture until just combined. Gather dough together, shape into 2 discs, wrap and chill until firm, about 1 to 2 hours.
• Preheat oven to 180 degrees C. On a lightly floured work surface, roll out the first disc of dough to just less than ¼-inch thick. Cut out desired shapes and lift with a spatula onto a parchment-lined baking sheet. Roll the second disc, saving all scraps to re-roll for more cut-outs. If you choose, add sprinkles or other decorations onto cookies before baking. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes, until edges of cookies just begin to brown. Let cool before removing from tray.
• Cookies will keep in an airtight container for up to 2 weeks.

These Christmas special cookies are simple, easy to make and are going to keep everyone happy at home. A delightful combination of coconut and cardamom, they are miles away from all the other types of cookies you must have had on your tea table. With an added chocolate glaze, your kids will be their happiest self!

Ingredients:

1 cup Refined Flour

2/3^rd cup to 1 cup Granulated Sugar

1 stick Butter

1/4th cup shredded dry coconut

1 tsp Cardamom Powder

2 tsp Salt

1/2 tsp Baking powder

1/4 cup Baking Soda

Method:

• Mix all the dry ingredients together. Mix in the shortening. (Shortening is nothing but Hydrogenated vegetable oil. It is not very good from health point of view but they make everything taste good)
• Combine everything well to make it into something like a soft dough. Pinch small balls out of it pressing it slightly into the palm of your hand.
• Preheat oven at 350 F. Arrange the biscuits on a parchment lined cookie sheet, giving at least 1″ between the biscuits.
• Bake for about 15 minutes or till they are cracked on the top and done!
• Melt a little chocolate and pour it over the cookies when they are ready. Sprinkle a little cardamom powder as well and let them cool.

Enjoy with fresh coffee and serve to your guests on the Christmas Eve!

These Christmas special cookies are sure to bowl you over. They are so mild and so different in taste from the usual Christmas cookies, that you are sure to be making them every single Christmas. The freshness of fennel adds to all the goodness that you feel on the tongue. Don’t forget to try these out, they are simply fantastic!

Ingredients:

2 cups Refined Flour

1/2 tsp Salt

50 gms Butter

1 tsp Baking powder

2 tsp Fennel seeds

Warm Water – as required

2 tbsp Sugar

Method:

• Take the flour and add the salt, sugar, butter, baking powder to it along with the fennel seeds. Keep adding water to make a soft dough.  Cover this with a wet muslin cloth and leave it for at least an hour.
• Then make small round balls and roll out to make a flat round shape. Take a star-shaped cookie cutter and cut out the pieces from this.
• Preheat oven at 350 F for about 10 minutes and bake for about 18 minutes. Then turn them around and bake for another 18 minutes.

For coloring:

• If you want to color these cookies in your favorite color, just add icing sugar with a little of your favorite color – red, pink or green or just about any color.
• Then brush this mixture over the cookies and freeze the cookies for about 8-10 hours.
• You can also coat your cookies with a little of the melted chocolate and sprinkle a fine powder of fennel seeds over them.

These lemon cookies are soft-baked and have plenty of lemon zest, lemon juice, and lemon extract throughout for a delicious lemon treat! if you love lemons, this is one hell-of-a-treat, just put one entire piece in and end your day in a lemonous way!

Ingredients:

2 cups flour

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon lemon zest

1/2 cup unsalted butter (room temperature)

1 cup sugar

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 tablespoons lemon juice

Method:

• Preheat oven to 180 degrees C.
• Prepare a cookie sheet with parchment paper, set aside
• In a medium bowl whisk the flour, baking soda, salt, and lemon zest.
• In large mixing bowl beat the butter for a few seconds, add the sugar and mix until light and fluffy. Add the egg, vanilla, and lemon juice. Mix until fully combined.
• Continue mixing while you add in the dry ingredients. Mix until fully combined. Now keep the dough in the refrigerator till it sets, for about an hour.
• After the mentioned time, take out the cookie dough and roll it out. Cut into the desired shapes and transfer onto the prepared cookie sheet. Bake until lightly golden on edges, approximately 15 minutes. Remove from oven, let cool on the cookie sheet about 5 minutes and then remove to continue cooling on a wire rack.
• Once cooled, dust them with a little icing sugar for a final touch.
• Store cookies in airtight container at room temperature. Enjoy!