Tuesday, November 15, 2011

BUTTER COOKIES











Radhika of Tickling Palates is hosting a fun event named BLOG HOP WEDNESDAYS.This week I am paired with Vidya  of Sweet Karam Kapi.I made this delicious butter cookies from her blog. You can find the original  recipe here.


Ingredients
  1. All purpose flour-1 3/4 cups
  2. Baking powder-1/2 tsp
  3. Salt-1/2 tsp
  4. Butter(unsalted)-3/4 cup
  5. Sugar-2/3 cup
  6. Egg- 1 large
  7. Vanilla extract- 1tsp
  8. Pineapple Jam/strawberry jam or Melted chocolate-1/3 cup



Method
  • Preheat oven to 180 deg C,line a baking tray with parchment paper.
  • Whisk all purpose flour,baking powder and salt together.Keep aside.
  • In another bowl ,cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy,for about 5 minutes.
  • Beat in vanilla extract and egg.
  • Now add the dry ingredients,mixing just until combined.
  • Refrigerate the dough for 1 hr.
  • Shape the dough into 1"  balls and lightly press with your thumb and fill the indentation with 3/4 tsp jam.You can also use a cookie mould.(if using chocolate filling fill the indentations with melted milk chocolate only after the cookies are baked and cooled)
  • Bake cookies until the edges turn golden,for about 15 minutes.
  • Cool the cookies on the baking tray.
Note:You can find the recipe for homemade pineapple jam here




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