Candy cane cookies recipe

I enjoy baking cookies at home every time and like to try new variety of cookies. But I really enjoyed while making these cookies. Mining candy cane cookies is so much of fun. They looks so pretty and beautiful. The easy part of these cookies are you can easily bake these cookies with very easily available ingredients. I made them couple of days back and They turned out so perfect. My daughter's were really surprised by seeing these cookies. I used my short bread cookie dough recipe to make these cookies. I hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turned out for you.

My one cup measures 200ml

Makes : 10 to 12 cookies

Ingredients :

Butter : 120 grams (unsalted)

All purpose flour/maida : 200 grams(2 cups)

Small egg : 1

Vanilla essence /almond extract : 1 tea spoon

Pinch of salt

Powdered sugar : 3/4 cup

Few drops of red food colour

Method :

Take butter and sugar in a bowl whisk until mixture becomes lite and fluffy.

Now add an egg and whisk it for few minutes, then add vanilla essence and mix it well.

Now add flour and mix it well and form a dough.

Now divide this dough into two equal portions, add colour to one portion of dough and mix it well.

Now take both dough in cling wrap and refrigerate for 20 minutes.

Now take chilled dough and divide them into small balls and roll them into small rope.

Now take both colour ropes and bring them together and twist it as shown in the pic and give it a cane shape.

Preheat oven for 10 minutes in 180 degrees Celsius.

Now arrange them in a baking tray and bake them for 17 to 20 minutes in 180 degrees Celsius.

Now let them cool completely and serve.

Pictorial :

Take butter in a bowl

Add sugar

Mix it well

Add an egg

Mix it well

Add vanilla essence

Mix it

Add in flour

Form a dough

Divide into equal parts

Add colour to one portion

Mix it well

Take them in plastic wrap and refrigerate

Now take chilled dough

Take small portions of dough

Roll them into rope

Bring both ropes together

Gently pinch the edges and twist them like this

Now it's ready to bake

Arrange them in baking tray

Bake it

Let them cool completely

Enjoy!!!!

TUTTI FRUTTI COOKIES/KARACHI BISCUITS RECIPE S

Here is the another yummilicious Christmas tutti frutti cookies. I just love making cooking cookies at home. Homemade cookies are absolutely delicious and healthy too. These tutti frutti cookies are so tasty with yummy buttery flavour. I used my homemade tutti frutti at home and they just turned wow!!!!! I have already shared tutti frutti cookies recipe in my Facebook page directly couple of years bac, but never got time to share in my page, finally I decided to bake some yummy cookies and baked on Friday. They turned so yummy as always.these cookies also have another name that is Karachi biscuits which are very famous in Hyderabad. You just need few basic ingredients available in your kitchen to bake these yummy biscuits. So, give this a try and let me know how they turned out for you.

Makes : 30 biscuits 

Ingredients :

All purpose flour/maida : 250 grams 

Unsalted butter : 150 grams 

Corn flour : 50 grams 

Tutti frutti : 100 grams

Baking powder : 1 tea spoon

Powdered sugar : 150 grams 

Milk : as required

Vanilla essence : 1 tea spoon 

Cashew nuts : 15 (chopped)

Method :

Take maida in a bowl, add corn flour,baking powder and mix it well. Then add cashew nuts and tutti frutti and mix it well.

Now take softened butter in a bowl and add powdered sugar and beat it well until it becomes creamy and fluffy.then add vanilla essence and mix it well.

Now add flour mixture and mix it well until all ingredients are well combined.

Add few drops of milk if your dough mixture is too stiff. Don’t knead dough too much, just combine all ingredients well.

Now take dough in cling wrap and wrap it well and refrigerate for 30 minutes.

Now sprinkle some flour on clean surface and roll the dough into  1/4 inch hight. Now sprinkle some tutti frutti on top and roll it gently.

Now cut them into squares and arrange them in lined baking tray and bake them for 15 to 20 minutes in 180 degrees Celsius in preheated oven.(preheat oven for 10 minutes in 180 degrees)

Now take baked biscuits from the oven and let them cool completely and store them in airtight container s and serve.