Chocolate Chip Cookies

Chocolate chip cookies

Ingredients

1cup maida
1/2 cup melted ghee or butter
1/2 cup powder sugar
Chocolate chips
2tbsp cocoa powder
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
1tbsp milk

Method

Mix together ghee and sugar.
Add all the other ingredients except chocolate chips.
Knead a dough and shape it as per your choice
Stick chocolate chips on the cookie and bake it at 150 degrees for 10 mins.


Oats cookies

For this cookie other than the ingredients required for the basic dough you will need
Oats
dry cranberry, dry blueberry, dry fruits

Knead and bake.

Cookies

Whenever I used to eat cookies I used to think that making cookies is a very cumbersome process. It must be lengthy and lots of ingredients required. So, I went to a cookie making class with lots of apprehension. All of my myths were shattered and I realized ignorance is such a pain.

I found  out that major cookies have the same base. They just add flavors or color to look and taste different. If one can master the basic dough. She is master of all. :)

So, I am posting the recipe of the basic dough.

Ingredients

1cup maida

1/2 cup melted ghee or butter

1/2 cup powder sugar

1/2 tsp baking powder

1tbsp milk

This measurement will make around 12 to 15 cookies.

Method

First and foremost add ghee/butter and sugar. Keep on mixing till sugar dissolves properly and the mixture is smooth.

In a bowl take maida and baking powder and knead it with ghee and sugar mixture. Please do not add any water. This will spoil the taste of the cookie. 

Before kneading you can add other ingredients which you want to add in the cookie. Like choco chips, oats, raisins etc.

The kneading has to be done with pressure and for some time to make the dough smooth as possible.

Absolutely at the last add milk and knead it once more.

If you don't add milk you can refrigerate your dough for one to two days. Just wrap it with clinging sheet and keep it in a fridge. When you want to bake it just take out and keep it for some time and add milk and knead. Your dough is ready. :)

This is the basic dough. My following posts will have different recipe of cookies from this basic dough.

Happy cookies.

Nankhatai Cookies

Okay, I have learnt few cookies recepies. So next few posts will be about cookies and cookies. Nankhatai is one of the yummiest cookies I have eaten.

Ingredients

1cup maida
1/4 cup sooji
Dry fruits
1/4 cup besan
1/2 cup powder sugar
1/2 cup ghee
2 pinch of baking powder
2 pinch of sweet soda
Elaichi powder

Method
Mix together powder sugar and ghee well.
Then add baking powder, elaichi powder, sweet soda, crushed dry fruits. Mix well.
Then add maida, sooji, besan. Knead into a dough. (do not use water. If needed add some milk or melted ghee)
Shape as per one choice.
Preheat the oven at 200 degrees. But bake the cookies at 180 degrees for 10 mins.

Serve.