Hello guys,
Welcome back to my recipe blog, Today I’m sharing this lovely and scrumptious selection of cookies recipe which is the best for customized cookie boxes for any celebration or bake sale or to simply have a round for your home.
In this recipe, I’m going to show you how to make one simple basic dough and then transform it into a unique style and unique flavours.
This is the way how we work in professional kitchens, creating a variety of cookies in different styles and flavours with a simple basic dough.
So let’s get started.
Ingredients
- Butter – 150g
- Icing sugar – 100g
- Egg yolk – 1
- Milk powder – 12g
- Vanilla essence – 1 tsp
- Almond essence
- Flour – 200g
- Coco powder – 2 tsp
- Almonds – (chopped) 1 tbsp
- Walnuts – (chopped) 1 tbsp
- Pistachio (chopped)
- Cumin seeds – 1 tsp
- Grated coconut – 1 tbsp
- Chocolate chips – 1 tbsp
- Green colour – 2 drops or as required
- Red food colour – 2 drops or as required
- Melted chocolate and sprinkles for decoration
Instruction
- In a bowl, add sieved all-purpose flour, salt, and milk powder well & set aside
- Take another bowl, add butter and icing sugar, and beat well until light fluffy for around 4-5 minutes approximately.
- Add egg yolk with vanilla essence and beat again until well combined.
- Now add all dry ingredients & mix well with the help of a spatula or mix with your hand until you get a crumbly dough.
- Divide the batter equally into 3 bowls.
- For chocolate dough, add cocoa powder, and coffee powder & mix until well combined, transfer the batter to a piping bag, you can use the star nozzle here and pipe on a baking tray to make biscuits. Fill the centre with melted chocolate.
- Transfer plain biscuit dough to a piping bag and drop it on a baking tray to make a biscuit shape. Fill the centre with cherry jam.
- Take 1 tbsp of plain biscuit dough, cut in a square shape, give egg wash and coat with almonds Or coat with desiccated coconut Or you can add pistachios in the dough mixture with a few drops of green colour and mix well
- In a small ball, add 4 tbsp. chocolate biscuit dough, add chocolate chips and mix well.
- Take 2 tbsp of the plain dough mixture, add a few 2 drops of red food colour, mix well and cut with a cookie cutter, you can give it any shape you like.
Baking:
- Bake in preheated oven at 170 C for 15 minutes (both grill on).
- Take out the tray and let the cookies cool completely for around 15 mins before removing them from the tray.
- Store in an air-tight container
Baking without Oven:
- In pot, add 1 pack of salt, place steamer stand/wire rack (minimum 2“high) and preheat on a medium flame for 10-15 minutes.
- Place prepared biscuits tray, cover and bake in a pot on a medium flame for 15-20 minutes.
Decorate the cookies with melted chocolates and sprinkles or the way you like. Share a snap of your customized decorative cookies with me. I would love to see your creative ideas.
Happy Baking!
