Sunday, May 27, 2012

ALMOND COOKIES



Ingredients:
2 cup All Purpose Flour
1 tsp Baking Powder
1 cup unsalted Butter
3/4 cup Sugar
1 Egg or 1 1/2 tbsp Milk(if making egg-less biscuits)
2-3 drops Vanilla essence
Almonds 


Recipe:
Soak almonds in warm water. 


Sieve the flour and baking powder in a bowl.
Beat butter until soften then add sugar to it and beat it until sugar melts.
Add egg yolk and essence to butter and mix, if making egg less then no need to use essence.
Take flour mix and butter mix and using your hands make a dough.
Make small balls
Preheat the oven at 180C.
Break the soaked almonds in half.
Flatten the balls by pressing half almond lightly on it. 



Place them in a baking tray and bake at 180C for 10-15 minutes until they are golden.


Enjoy cookies with tea or coffee or warm milk for kids :)


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2 comments:

  1. hi
    I read ur blog regularly and love them. just a small question why u soak almonds? Cant we use without soaking them?

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  2. thank alice
    soaking almonds is essential otherwise almonds get burn while baking , giving a bitter taste.

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