Tutti Frutti Cookies

Ingredients

• All purpose flour  - 1 cup
• Unsalted butter - 100 gm
• Sugar - 1/2 cup
• Tutti Frutti - 1/4 cup
• Milk - 1 tbsp

Preparation

1. Mix sugar and butter in a bowl till fluffy. Add all purpose flour and tutti frutti one by one. Mix well.

2. Add milk and make a dough. Form a log out the dough. Make sure the outside part of log is smooth.

3.Cover using a cling wrap / Butter paper and keep inside the freezer for 30 minutes.

4.Preheat the oven to 180C for 10 minutes. Take the log from freezer and cut into slices using a sharp knife.

5.Arrange them in the butter paper / aluminum foil lined baking tray with uniform intervals. Bake it for 10 minutes or until the edges starts browning.

6.Cool it for while. They become crisp when they cool down. Store it in an air tight container

Nankhatai

They are shortbread biscuits and it is a popular sweet in India . 

Ingredients

• Maida - 1 cup
• Sugar - 1/2 cup, powdered
• Cardamom seeds,crushed - 1/2 tsp
• Ghee - 1/2 cup,melted 
• Baking soda - 1/2 tsp

Preparation

1.Preheat the oven to 180C.

2.Powder the sugar along with one cardamom and keep aside. Sift together maida and baking soda, keep aside.

3.Mix together the melted ghee and powdered sugar to a smooth paste.Add the flour 1 tbsp at a time and mix together to form a dough.Knead the dough with your fingertips until it starts to come together.

4.Rest the dough for about 1/2 an hour and then pinch off balls of same size and then roll them smooth and place on a cookie tray. Bake for 20 minutes.

Marble Cake

This is my 250th post in my blog!! So we will continue with some sweet treat...Marble cake is a mixture of vanilla and chocolate. Marbling of two different batters makes it yummy and drooling!!

Ingredients

• All Purpose flour / Maida - 2 cups
• Baking powder - 1 tsp
• Butter - 100 gms, softened
• Powdered sugar - 1+1/4 cups
• Eggs - 2 
• Vanilla essence - 1 tsp
• Milk - 1 cup (luke warm)
• Cocoa powder - 2 tbsp

Preparation

1. Sift together maida and baking powder in a bowl.

2. In another bowl, combine butter and sugar. Add eggs and whisk well. Add the vanilla essence and milk and whisk together. Add the flour and whisk well till all ingredients are combined well and you get a smooth batter without any lumps.

3. Preheat oven to 180C and grease a cake tray.  Pour half of the cake mix in the tin.  Add the cocoa powder to the other half  in the bowl,and combine well.

4. Pour this cocoa mix on top of the vanilla layer in the cake tin . Using a knife or toothpick, swirl the batter to create a marbling effect.

5. Bake for 30-40 mins. Check if cake is done by inserting a  toothpick in the middle. Let the cake cool completely.

Blueberry Muffins

Ingredients

• All purpose flour/ Maida - 1 .5 cup 
• Blueberries - 1 cup
• Corn flour - 3 tbsp
• Plain yogurt - 1 cup
• Oil - 1/2 cup
• Sugar - 3/4 cup
• Baking powder - 1 tsp
• Baking soda - 1/2 tsp
• Vanilla essence - 1 tsp

Preparation

1. Pre-heat oven to 180 degree C. Sieve Flour/Maida with corn flour twice to ensure even mixing.

2.Mix curd and sugar in a bowl well. Add the baking powder and baking soda and let it rest for 2 – 3 minutes. Now mix oil and vanilla well to it. Add the flour one tablespoon at a time and mix well.

3.Wash the blueberries, pat dry it using kitchen towel/ tissue. Dust it with 2 tsp of flour  and add it to the mixed batter and mix evenly.

4.Line the muffin tray with liners and spoon 3/4th of the liner with the batter. Bake for  18-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.