chocolate chip cookies

Recipe halved from -  Humming bird bakery book.

Ingredients( makes large 12 cookies )

Flour - 200 gm/ roughly 1  and another  2/3 cup flour

Butter -115 gm( softened) roughly 1/2 cup

Soft brown sugar -175 gm( roughly 3/4 cup )

Egg -1

Vanilla essence -1/2 tsp

Baking soda - 11/ 4 tsp

Salt - pinch

Chocolate chips - 100 gm ( dark or milk )

Method

Beat butter and sugar until creamy

Add egg and beat until mixed.

Add flour, baking soda , salt and mix .Add half of the chocolate chips and  make a smooth dough .

Divide the dough into 12 equal balls and press rest of  chocolate chips on top of each balls. 

Bake in a preheated oven at 180 degree C for 10-11 minutes

Linzer cookies

 

Recipe adapted from Homecookingadventure

Ingredients (makes approximately 17 sandwiched  cookies)

Plain flour – 185 gm/ 1 ½ cup

Almond flour – 50 gm/ ½ cup

Egg – 1

Unsalted butter (softened) – 115 gm/ ½ cup

Granulated sugar – 75 gm/ roughly 1/3 cup

Vanilla extract – ½ tsp

Cinnamon powder – ¾ tsp

Baking powder – ½ tsp

Salt – pinch

Icing sugar

For strawberry preserve/ jam

Strawberries – 175 gm

Sugar – 110 gm/ roughly ½ cup( ¾ tablespoon more)

Lime juice – 1 tablespoon

Method

In a bowl sift together flour, almond flour, baking powder,salt, cinnamon powder and keep it aside.

In another bowl beat butter and sugar until fluffy.

Add egg and beat until mixed.

Add dry ingredients to it and fold it until mixed.

With your hands bring the dough together, divide the dough into two and  shape it into discs

Wrap and refrigerate the dough for 2-3 hours.

Meanwhile make the jam

Making jam

I have done a detailed post on making jam back in 2013, please check it out here, but you can use the measurements mentioned in this post(under  ingredients) for jam and it is  enough to sandwich all the 17 cookies.

Alternatively you can use store bought strawberry jam!

Rolling  cookies

 In a clean surface dust with some flour and take  one half of the dough from the fridge and roll it into 1/8 inch thickness  and cut out the desired shapes.

Take the other half out the fridge and roll the dough  into same thickness and cut out the cookies. With another fondant/cookie cutter cut out stars, or snowflakes from the middle.

Gather the scraps and put it in the freezer for few minutes before re rolling and repeating the process.

Bake the cookies in a preheated oven at 180 degree C for about 7-8 minutes.

Cool the cookies in a cooling rack.

Take the bottom half of the cookies and spread it with a tsp each of strawberry jam.

Dust the cookies (with shapes cut out from middle) with icing sugar through a sieve to get a snowy effect.

Sandwich both cookies together gently.

Enjoy !

Chocolate chip cookies

Yes I am back after my break. My sister and hubby is back in Dubai and I am back to my normal routine. Feeling a bit lonely after they left :(

When I took the break I thought that I can be back with special recipes that I cook for them, but I was totally wrong.The days were too short for me to even enter my kitchen..They were here only for 8 days and 3 days we were out of the city. And the remaining days after all the outing by the time we come back it will be very late to cook, so we eat outside. I cooked only 2 days and that to just a simple dinner.

Today I am going to post a recipe of chocolate chip cookies which I made for them before they came.They really like it and it was all gone within 2 days.

Ingredients

Flour - 1 1/4 cup

Butter - 1/2 cup

Sugar - 1/2 cup

Brown sugar - 1/4 cup

Egg - 1

Vanilla essence - 1 tsp

Chocolate chips - 1/4 cup

Baking soda - 1/2 tsp

Salt - a pinch

Preparation

Beat butter , sugar and brown sugar. Add egg and vanilla essence and beat again. Add all the dry ingredients and mix well.Finally add chocolate chips and mix well.

Make small balls with batter and place them in a baking tray and cook in a preheated oven at 190 degree centrigrade for about 15 minutes. Allow the cookies to cool down before you taste them.