(makes 24 cookies)
Ingredients:
1 cup All purpose flour
1/2 cup(minus 2 tbsp) Unsalted Butter*
1/2 cup(minus 2 tbsp) Sugar**
1/3 heaped cup Tutti Frutti(candied fruit)
1/2 tsp Vanilla Essence
a pinch of Salt
Method:
- Keep the butter outside until it comes down to room temperature and becomes soft.
- Powder the sugar in a mixer.
- Sieve the all purpose flour and keep it ready.
- Take butter in a big bowl and add powdered sugar to it and beat well with a electric mixer for 3-4 mins until you get a soft and creamy mixture.
- Add vanilla essence and beat again.
- Sprinkle all purpose flour in batches and add tutti frutti and mix it to get a soft dough consistency.It will be slightly sticky.If your dough is very crumbly you can add 1-2 tbsp milk to mix the dough.If the dough is very sticky sprinkle some flour to mix the dough.
- Divide the dough into 2 portions and make each portion into a 2" cylinder log and wrap it in butter paper. Follow the same process for the other portion.If the dough is very sticky sprinkle some flour to roll it into a log.
- Freeze the packed dough for 40-45 mins or you can refrigerate the dough for 3 hrs.
- Preheat the oven at 160 deg C(320 F) for 12-15 mins.
- Remove the dough from freezer and remove the log from the butter paper and cut the log into 1/2" roundels using a sharp knife.If the dough crumbles while cutting into slices,slightly press the dough back to hold the shape of roundel.You can even roll the dough into 1/4" thickness and cut them into your desired shapes using cookie cutter.
- Place a butter paper or cookie sheet on the baking tray and arrange these cookies leaving 2" gap in between them.
- Bake them at 160 deg C for 10-12 mins until the edges turn slightly brown.Keep a close eye after 8 mins and remove them once you see the brown patches.If you like them more crispier bake for a minute more.
- The cookies will be very soft to touch when you remove from oven,but it is ok they would be crisp once they cool down.
- Leave them in the baking tray for 5 mins and arrange them on the cooling rack to let them cool completely.
- Once they are cooled down store them in air tight container.You can store them up to 4-5 days.
Serve them as a snack with a glass of milk or dunk them in your tea/coffee and enjoy.
*If you are using unsalted butter add salt in the recipe.I added salted butter hence I skipped the salt in the recipe.
**The cookies are sweet enough for us,if you like them really sweeter then make the sugar quantity in the dough to 1/2 cup.I find it too sweet if I add 1/2 cup sugar in the recipe hence I always reduce 2 tbsp sugar which is perfect for us.
**The cookies are sweet enough for us,if you like them really sweeter then make the sugar quantity in the dough to 1/2 cup.I find it too sweet if I add 1/2 cup sugar in the recipe hence I always reduce 2 tbsp sugar which is perfect for us.
- This is a basic eggless cookie which is very versatile and you can add various roasted nuts and dry fruits or chocolate chips instead of tutti frutti in the recipe.
- You can even add 1 tsp fresh orange zest in the dough to get flavorful orange cookies.
- If you do not get tutti frutti you can even add chopped candied cherries in the recipe.
- While mixing the dough if your dough is very crumbly you can add 1-2 tbsp milk to mix the dough.If the dough is very sticky sprinkle some flour to mix the dough.
- The cookies are sweet enough for us,if you like them really sweeter then make the sugar quantity in the dough to 1/2 cup.I find it too sweet if I add 1/2cup sugar in the recipe hence I always reduce 2 tbsp sugar which is perfect for us.
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