Tried and tasted by Nivedita
Hi All,
Its two years now, BAKING has become a passion for me. Before,it was a nightmare for me. My kids loved cakes, pastries, brownies, cookies, all the possible baked sweets! Only and Only because of them I pushed my self to baking. If you remember, my first baking was My first bake - Chocolate Cookies which was a success then I did not turned back from baking. I faced may failures, I have thrown the whole unbaked cake into dustbin, I burnt the cookies, I forgot to add sugar while mixing... I took an oath not to bake again... But my Baking Saga continued. Now every one in my family, my friend circle their kids love my brownies, biscuits and cookies. Every one tells me that I should start a home bakery :-) Thanks every one for supporting me and encouraging me.
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Coming to the recipe,
Its not my own recipe, I have followed it from Priya of Enveetu Kitchen and she followed from Sharmi's Passions, The chain continues like this if someone follows my recipe here. There is little bit change in my method, only because of my carelessness. But the result was good.
I got around 20 cookies
I got around 20 cookies
Ingredients:
All purpose flour - 1 cup
Butter,unsalted - 1/3 cup, at room temperature
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Milk - 2 tbsp
The easiest baking with tastiest results.
Method :
In Actual recipe, you need to cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. But because of my carelessness I skipped this step and directly added all the ingredients except milk. Then I realized my mistake but it was late to take the butter and sugar out from the flour. So without any option I mixed everything for more time and added the milk at the end(after 5 minutes) and turned it into soft dough. I divided the dough in to two small balls, rolled it into 1/4" thick circle. Covered it with plastic wrap(I used) or parchment paper).You can roll into log also(Priya has done this) Refrigerate it for at least 30 minutes.
Grease a Baking tray and line it with parchment or just grease the tray(I did it)
Remove and cut into cookie shape(if you have cookie cutter) or any other shape with a sharp knife.
If you have the dough log, slice them into thick circle.
Transfer these in to tray.
Bake them 10-12 minutes, depending on YOUR OTG or oven capacity. Keep an eye after 8 minutes.
Once the edges are brown, they are done. They will be soft when hot and turn crispy once cold.
Allow then to cool :-)
Enjoy these sweet short bread with a hot cup of tea or a glassful of milk or just like that. Perfect for kid's in the evening.
Sending this to Amrita's
she is a host of this month's Bake Fest
Keep Smiling,
