CHOCOLATE NUTELLA COOKIES (Eggless)

Eggless Nutella Cookies - BHW

Another exciting wednesday for blog hopping came in and this time I was paired with one of my bloggy friend Priya :). I was so dleighted to know that I was paired with her as her blog as a treat to my eyes and i actually got confused what to make seeing all the wonderful dishes she have made. I was looking for simple recipe and as usual baking being my passion these days, these cookies were instant eye cather to me eyes. I did make changes to it and added extra few ingredients to it. I liked this biscuit coz unlike other biscuits it wasnt so sweet and for a family like mine, this was perfect :). Do find the link to the idea i got form her blog from here.

Ingredients:

All Purpose Flour - 1/2 cup + 1 tbsp
Cocoa Powder - 1/3 cup
Baking Powder - 1/2 tsp
Softened Butter - 1/4 cup
Sugar - 1/4 cup
Brown Sugar - 1/4 cup
Vanilla Essence - 1/2 tsp
Nutella - 8 tsp
Milk - 6 tsp

Preparation:

Pre-heat oven to 163C/325F

Sieve Flour, cocoa powder and baking powder and keep aside.

Now with a electric mixer beat sugars and butter till smooth. Add int he essence and nuteela and beat for another minute or so. Slowly add in the mixed flour and start folding in. Add milk in between and fold the whole mix into a soft dough. Refrigerate for 15-20 mins to make the dough hard.

Make small balls and place them on to a baking tray placed with baking paper. Flatten them with a bottom of a glass. Bake till slight cracks are formed and cookies are still soft. This wil take about 10 mins or so.

Cheers,
Neetz ;)


I would like to send this over for KIDS DELIGHT cevent onducted by Kavi and Srivalli and Valentines Event

                              Valentine fest serve with love

Bon Vivant Series

CUSTARD BISCUITS/YO-YO BISCUITS

CUSTARD BISCUITS / YO - YO BISCUITS

I have seen this recipe in many blogs long back. The name yo-yo itself is what made me attracted to trying out these biscuits. As the name sounds they look also yo-yo and easy to prepare :)..
Ingredients:
All Purpose Flour - 1.5 cups
Custard Powder - 1/2 cup
Butter - 220 gms
Icing Sugar - 1/2 cup


Preparation:
Sieve the flour and custard powder.

Whisk butter and sugar nicely. Add in batches the flour and mix till you get a soft dough. Make small balls from it and press lightly with a fork to form a cookie mark. Bake in a pre-heated oven @ 190C for 10 mins. Cool and store in an air-tight container.
I would like to send this over to JATW conducted by my dear friend Kavi :)

Cheers,
Neetz ;)

CREAMY SERRADURA (SAWDUST PUDDING)

Creamy Serradura - A Portugese Macanese Sweet Dish (Sawdust Pudding)

This is one of the easiest sweet dish you can prepare. The original recipe uses more complicated way of using gelatin and egg whites.  You can chill this after making too and then serve. It can be stored 1-2 days too :)

Ingredients:
(for an average 1 glass)
Whipped Cream - 125ml
Condensed Milk - 2 tbsp
Marie Biscuits - 5-6 nos
Cashew Nuts - 2-3 tbsp (optional)
Preparation:
In a bowl whip the cream and when it reaches just before the peak stage add in the condensed milk and whip till peaks are formed. Keep in fridge for an hour to chill.

Powder the biscuits and nuts coarsely in a chopper or by using the ziplock rolling pin method (you put in biscuits and nuts into a ziplock bag and close it. Then with a rolling pin start rolling them outside the bag to get powdered form).

How to arrange them:

In a glass, spoon in the whipped cream into the glass (you can use a piping bag if needed). Then carefully add in a spoonful of biscuits-nuts mixture making sure the corners are covered. Then again add in the whipped cream and then the bscuit mix. Repeat this process till you reach the top of the glass.

Optionally you can even decorate with chocolate shavings on top. I didnt have any chcoclate kept :(. Ya i gobble down any chcoclate kept at home.. a very sweeeeet person I m ;)

Recipe Courtesy : food channel

Cheers,
Neetz ;)

Notes :
The amount of cream and biscuits all depend on the size of glass and layers you want to create.
For a twist you can vanilla essence too.
Cashew Nuts is purely optional and I have added in this coz i love the extra crunchiness.

I would like to send this over to the event Christmas Delicacy . I am glad i couls send this recipe to a wonderful event.

EGGLESS SOFT AND CHEWY CASHEW COOKIES

Eggless Cashew Cookies

Ingredients:
Cashew Coarsely grounded - 1/2 cup (take whole cashew in accordance to that before grounding)
All Purpose Flour - 1 cup
Cardamom Powder - a large pinch
Softened Butter - 1/3 cup
Castor Sugar - 3/4 cup (adjust the sweetness accordng to your needs)
Baking Powder - 1/4 tsp
Milk - 2-3 tbsp

Preparation:

Pre-heat the oven at 180C/ 375F. Place the measured whole nuts on the baking tray and bake for 10 mins till nuts are roasted. They will turn lightly brown in color. Keep it cool and ground coarsely.

Sieve the baking powder and flour.

In a bowl add in the butter and sugar. Beat till soft. Then add in the grounded nuts,cardamom, mixed flour and start to bind. If the binding gets hard and tough, add in tbsp of milk and see if you need more for binding to make a dough. Add only tbsp by tbsp if required. Bind to a dough and then keep it in fridge to set for 20 mins.

In a baking tray with a parchment paper, make small balls and flatten them slightly and place them on the tray with a 1 inch gap between each. Bake in a pre-heated oven for 10-12 minutes or till side turn slightly brown in color. Wait for the cookies to cool completely to thicken and enjoy with a cup of hot tea :)

Cheers,
Neetz ;)

PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

Peanut Butter Cookies

Ingredients:

Softened Butter - 150 grams
Castor Sugar - 130 grams
Brown Sugar - 160 grams
Peanut Butter - 100 grams
All Purpose Flour - 300 grams
Baking Powder - 3 grams
Vanilla Extract - 1 tsp ( optional)
Egg - 1/2 or alteranatively for veg - 2 tbsp milk

Preparation:
Sieve the flour and baking powder.

In a bowl add in the butter and castor sugar. Beat till sugar almost dissolves and butter becomes fluffy. Then to this add brown sugar and beat again. Then add in the peanut butter and egg/milk and beat again till soft. Add in vailla extract and mix. Then add in the mixed flour and make a dough. Keep in fridge to set for 20-25 mins. Then make small balls from the dough, flatten them slightly and place it on baking tray placed with parchment paper. Bake in a pre-heated oven for 20 - 25 mins. Cool the biscuits. Best for kids to have as evening snacks or for tiffins.

Cheers,
Neetz ;)

NANKATHAI (EGGLESS VERSION)

Nankathai (Eggless version)

I always loved this when i was a kid itself. I used to get in bakery shops and i used to just eat non -stop...sigh :( gone are those the days where I can eat like that..
Yes, forget about the waistline part and make a enjoy a few of these ;) .. quick and easy way to prepare when you really need to get something to eat sweet in a jiffy :)

Ingredients:
All purpose Flour - 1.5 cup
Wheat Flour - 1/2 cup
Ghee - approx 1 cup
Sugar powdered - 1/2 cup
Cashew, Almonds, Pista - 1/3 cup roughly chopped (optional)
Baking Soda - 1/4 tsp

Preparation:
Put in all the flours, soda, sugar and the nuts mix. roughly mix with hand. Then slowly add in little by little ghee and keep mixing till you get a dough (a smaooth dough like a chappati dough). If the mix looks like crumbling add in a bit more spoonful of ghee.

In a pre-heated pan at 180C, place parchment paper on the baking tray. Make small balls of the dough and flatten them lightly and then place them on the tray. Bake for 8 - 9 mins approx and let it cool down completely to be stored in air-tight container.

I m sending this over for the event My Diwali My Way .

Cheers,
Neetz ;)

Note:
You can substitute the wheat flour to all purpose flour.
Wait the biscuits to cool down a bit to have a bite otherwise it might crumble.

SESAME COOKIES

Sesame Cookies

Cookies is all time favourite of mine! There were tons of times were i wished i had a body that doesnt put on weight on sweets ;). i know its not gonna happen as easily as it is said :(. Sad. Nevertheless, but it doesnt stop me from cooking them. I made these yesterday and sure enough as expected all were muching on it and finished in a jiffy!.

Ingredients :

All Purpose Flour - 1 cup
Sesame Seeds - 1/2 cup
Baking Soda - 1/2 tsp
Sugar powdered - 1/2 cup
Butter - 1/2 cup
Egg - 1 no
Vanilla Extract - 1/2 tsp
Salt - a pinch

Preparation:

Dry roast in a pan the sesame seeds till nice aroma comes. Dont over roast them as they will taste bitter. I kept testing their doneness by eating a few in between.

Whisk egg nicely and then add in the vanilla extract and sugar and whisk till smooth texture is formed.

In a bowl mix properly the flour, baking soda, salt. Add this flour slowly to the egg mix and knead to get a dough. To this mix in the sesame seeds. If you want you can keep a few remaining to extra coat them like i did. If you feel the dough is too dry try adding in a liitle butter.

Pre-heat the oven to 190C. In a greased pan or pan placed with parchment paper, make small balls of the dough, roll them in sesame seeds (if you like) and flatten them and place them on the pan. Make sure you give them enough space to spread while baking. Repeat till the dough finishes. Bake them at 190C for 10 mins. Wait for the biscuits to cool down. Voila! your yummy biscuits are ready to have :)

Cheers,
Neetz ;)

WHOLE WHEAT COOKIES

Whole Wheat Cookies

I am crazy about biscuits n cookies. There is no greater pleasure than baking at your own home and that too in a healthy way. The biscuits were finished in a jiffy and i have to make  second batch for myself ;). Great for kids tiffin and evening snack :)

Ingredients:
Wheat Flour - 3/4 cup
Oats - 1/2 cup
Brown Sugar - 1/4 cup
Sugar - 1/4 cup
Butter - 1/4 cup
Egg - 1
Cinnamon powder - a big pinch
Salt - a pinch
Baking soda - 1/4 tsp
Vanilla Essence - 1/4 tsp
Semi-sweet chocolate chips + Walnuts + Cashew grounded - 1/4 cup

Preparation:


Melt the butter in a microwave. Then to this add in the sugar and mix properly. Beat the egg and blend in the egg, vailla essence and the powders. Then slowly add in the flour and oatmeal and start mixing till you get a soft dough. Add in the chip-walnut -nut mix and mix again.

Pre-heat the oven to 350F/ 180C.  In a baking tray, palce a parchment paper or aluminium foil. Take a small ball of dough and flatten it on tray. Make sure when u place dough, to leave a space of atleast 1 inch as they get bigger while getting baked. Bake for 20 mins or till you see light brown color below the biscuits.

Pre-heat the oven to In a baking tray, put in parchment paper or aluminium foil. take a small ball of the dough and place them on the tray and flatten slightly. Place more balls like this and make sure you give them a space of atleast 1 inch in between each dough as they tend to get biggger while baking.

Bake for 12-15 mins until done. Another way to check is that the biscuits turn light brown in color on the sides and below.

Cool for a min and have your biscuits warm. Its tastes divine with melted choco chips in between!

Cheers,
Neetz ;)