Starting of holidays and we are enjoying the winter here in Mumbai. Christmas is round the corner and I see people keep them busy in baking a lot of stuff. Love to see my friends living out of the country lighting up their house and baking cookies breads cakes for Christmas. And that inspires me a lot.
Few days back my daughter came back from school and said she has to carry dry snacks to school on the sports day coming up on this Saturday. And she asked me what am I going to pack in her tiffin. Then I said 'let me bake some cookies for you' and my bakes for the season starts from here - cookies with tutti frutti and chocolate chips. I had to bake two different batches coz my daughter does not like tutti frutti or any dry fruits in her cookies. They are super yummy and she loved it. Mission successful !
These cookies are not eggless version. Thing is I love that egg flavour in cookies and cakes. Though I love both the tuffti frutti & chocolate chip ones, but the tutti frutti has definitely enhanced the taste & the look of the cookies more. In this recipe I have used granulated sugar only that's why you will see the granules of sugar on the top of the cookies. You can always use powdered sugar to avoid that. You can use any dry fruit instead of chocolate chip or tutti frutti.
If you ask me for a healthy version of this recipe then I would say you can use whole wheat flour but I have not tried whole wheat version so wont be able to say how it would turn out to be. If you try do let me know , I would definitely like to follow that.
Few important points that I have been learning while baking and still improving.
It is very important when you mix the butter and sugar to whisk it properly till the sugar dissolves and after adding the egg whisk till you get the creamy fluffy consistency. Have patience ! Do not ever add the dry ingredients all at once, always add batch by batch. Also the baking time is very important when you bake cookies , do not bake till it gets hard to get that brown top. Because once you take it out from oven and keep on wire rack to cool these will anyways get harden. So it is always advisable in my case to take out the cookies when they are still a bit soft.
Here is how they are made.
RECIPE
This measurement gave me total 17 cookies.
Ingredients:
Plain flour: 1 cup
Sugar : 1/2 cup
Butter: 1/2 cup softened
Egg: 1
Baking powder: 1 tsp
Vanilla essence: 1 tsp
Tutti frutti & chocolate chips & white chocolate chips: 2-3 tbsp. of each (You can increase or decrease as per your liking)
Oil to brush on the baking tray
Method:
Sift the flour and baking powder in a bowl. Keep aside.
In a bowl add the butter & sugar. Whisk till the sugar combines well with the butter . I used the electric blender for this. It took me a little longer as I was using granulated sugar.
Now add the egg and whisk again till you get the creamy fluffy texture. Do not hurry in doing this. Take your time.
Once done add the flour mixture little by little and keep on mixing with a spoon or spatula . Here I use a spatula to mix everything. You will get a dough like consistency once everything combines well. Now knead the dough once with your hand. Divide the dough into two equal portions and add the tutti frutti & chocolate chips . Knead once again to mix them with the dough.
Make logs of the dough & wrap them in cling sheets separately and keep in refrigerator for about an hour or so.
Preheat the oven at 180 degree Celsius.
Brush the baking tray with some oil. You can use parchment paper on the baking tray and arrange your cookies on that and bake. I never use it .
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Take the dough out and roll them. Give shapes with the help of cookie cutter and arrange them on the tray keeping some gap between each of them. Bake them at 180 degree Celsius for about 15-17 minutes. Mine took exactly 17 minutes. Please do keep a close eye while its baking because the temperature varies from oven to oven and mine is a microwave oven. Also the temperature and timing would vary depending on the thickness of the cookie. What I usually do is I always set the time for 10 minutes first and then accordingly adjust it how much more time it would need to be baked. Once baked take them out . Keep them on the cooling rack till completely cool. Now store them in air tight containers and enjoy with your cuppa.
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