Tuesday, June 3, 2008

OAT COOKIE DELIGHT RECIPE


Ingredients:


Sugar - 2 cup
Cocoa Powder - 6 tbsp
Butter - 1/2 cup
Milk - 1/2 cup
Coconut Powder(Khopra/Narial) - 1 cup
instant Oats - 3 cup

Preparations:

* Mix cocoa powder, butter, sugar and milk in a pan.
* Bring it to a boil.
* Remove it from flame and add oats and coconut powder.
* Mix well.
* With the help of a spoon pour the mixture one spoonful on a waxed paper.
Bake the cookies at 350° till they become brown.

SUGAR COOKIES RECIPE



Ingredients:

Fine Wheat Flour (Maida) - 3 cup
Sugar - 1 cup
Baking Powder - 1 1/2 tsp
Salt - 1/2 tsp
softened Butter - 1 cup
Egg - 1
Milk - 2 tbsp
Vanilla Essence - 1 1/2 tsp


Preparations:

* In a bowl, mix flour , sugar, baking powder, salt and butter.
* In a separate bowl beat the eggs lightly with milk and vanilla essence.
* Add this mixture to the dry ingredients.
* Make a dough and roll it into a ball.
* Wrap it in a wax paper and let it chill for 1 hour.
* When you want to make the cookies take a samll ball of the dough and roll it into a cookie by pressing the ball between two wax papers.
* Bake the cookies at 350° for 5-7 minutes or till the cookies are firm

HAZELNUT COOKIE RECIPE


Ingredients:


Sugar - 2/3 cup
softened Butter - 1 cup
Vanilla Essence - 2 tsp
grated Lemon Peel - 1 tsp
Egg Yolk - 1
Fine Wheat Flour (Maida) - 2 1/4 cup
grounded Hazelnuts - 1 1/2 cup
Jam - 1/2 cup


Preparations:

* Preheat the oven at 325 degrees.
* In a bowl mix sugar and butter.
* Beat the mixture till soft and fluffy.
* Add vanilla essence, lemon peel and egg yolk.
* Mix well.
* Add the flour and the hazelnuts.
* Make a soft dough.
* Make 1 1/4 size balls out of the dough.
* Take a ungreased cookies sheet and place the balls on it 2 inches apart.
* Press the cookies in the center with the thumb.
* Bake the cookiesat 325 degrees for 10 to 15 minutes or until light golden brown around edges.
* Let them cool.
* When completely cool fill the cavity of each cookie with ½ teaspoon jam.

CHOCOLATE PRETZELS RECIPE


Ingredients:

Margarine/ Butter - 150 gms
Icing sugar - 100 gms
Egg - 1
Plain flour - 225 gms
Cocoa - 25 gms
Cooking chocolate - 100 gms



Preparations:


* Soften the butter or margarine in a bowl and mix in the icing sugar, lightly beaten egg and salt.
* Sift in flour and cocoa and mix together to make a stiff dough. leave for 30 minutes.
* Roll out pieces of dough to the shape of pretzels.
* Place on a lightly greased tray and bake for 15-18 minutes in a moderate oven.
* Melt cooking chocolate with water over a low heat.
* Drop each pretzel into the hot chocolate and quickly remove. dry each pretzel on greaseproof paper.

CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES RECIPE


Ingredients:


Fine Wheat Flour (Maida) - 1 1/4 cup
Baking Soda - 1/2 tsp
Salt - 1/2 tsp
Butter - 1/2 cup
Brown Sugar - 1/2 cup
Sugar - 1/4 cup
Egg - 1 small sized
Vanilla Essence - 1 tsp
Chocolate Chips - 1 cup
chopped and roasted Walnuts - 1/2 cup


Preparations:


* Mix the flour, baking soda and salt evenly in a bowl.
* With the mixer running, beat butter, sugar and brown sugar together until creamy.
* Add the egg and vanilla essence.
* Now add flour.
* When flour is fully blended mix the chips and walnuts.
* Preheat the oven to 190 degrees.
* On a tray place a large ungreased cookie sheet.
* Now drop a spoonful of the batter on the sheet 2 inches apart.
* Bake for 10 -1 2 minutes.

RAISIN CHOCO OAT COOKIE


Ingredients:

Fine Wheat Flour (Maida) - 3/4 cup
Baking Soda - 1 tsp
Salt - 1/4 tsp
Sugar - 3/2 cup
Brown Sugar - 3/2 cup
Butter - 3/2 cup
Vanilla Essence - 1 tsp
Eggs - 1 big sized
uncooked oats - 1 1/2 cups
Currants (Kishmish) - 1/2 cup
Dark Chocolate Chips - 1 cup

Preparations:

* Before you begin preheat the oven to 175 degrees.
* Grease a baking tray.
* Mix flour, baking soda, and, salt.
* Cream sugar and butter.
* Add vanilla essence, and, eggs one by one while mixing .
* Add the flour and mix the oats.
* Mix well and then add currants and chocolate chips.
* Now drop one spoonful of the batter on inch apart on the greased baking tray.
* Bake for 12 - 14 minutes or till golden in color.

SESAME SEED COOKIES RECIPE


Ingredients:


Sesame Seeds - 1/2 cup
Maida - 4 cups
Sugar - 1 cup
Butter - 1 cup
Eggs - 3
Cake Seeds (Caraway Seeds) - 1 tbsp
Milk to mix - 1/2 cup
Salt a pinch
Baking Soda - 1/4 tsp


Preparations:

* Sieve flour with salt and baking powder in a bowl.
* Add sugar, butter, 2 eggs, cake seeds, blend well.
* Add milk little by little and knead to a smooth dough.
* roll out on a floured board 1cm thick and cut out with fancy cookie cutters.
* Brush with remaining egg (well beaten) and sprinkle heavily with sesame seeds.
* Place on a greased baking tray.
* Bake in a moderate oven for 10 minutes.
* Cool and keep aside. good to be served with tea.

BUTTER COOKIES RECIPE


Ingredients:

All purpose flour (maida) - 6 cups
baking powder - 3 teaspoons
salt - 1 tsp
white sugar - 2 cup
butter or margarine - 2 cup
egg - 2
cream - 6 tbsp
vanilla extract - 2 tsp

Preparations:

* Sift flour, baking powder, salt and sugar together. Mix well.
* Add the butter.
* Add egg, cream and vanilla extract thoroughly.
* Wrap this dough into a foil and refrigerate for atleast 24 hrs.
* Reheat the oven for 400 degrees.
* Now roll the dough into a crust which is 1/4 to 1/8 thick.
* Now with the help of a cookie cutter, cut the cookies.
* Lastly place them on a greased tray and bake them at 400 degrees for 5 - 8 minutes.

WHISKEY CAKE RECIPE


Ingredients:

Eggs - 4
Oil - 1 cup
Sugar - 1 cup
Coffee - 1/2 cup
Whiskey - 1 Shot Glass
Honey - 2 cup
Vanilla Essence - 1 tsp
Fine Wheat Flour (Maida) - 3 1/2 cup
Baking Soda - 1 tsp
Baking Powder - 3 tsp
Salt - 1/4 tsp



Preparations:


* In a mixer beat eggs, oil, sugar, whiskey, honey, and vanilla for three minutes.
* Then for 3 minutes at high speed.
* Sift the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
* Slowly add the sifted flour in the mixer for 3 minutes at medium speed.
* Grease a 15 x 11 inch square pan.
* Pour the mixture in the pan.
* Baked the pan at 350 degrees for 1 hour and 10 minutes or till the tooth pick comes out clean from the center of the cake.