Basic Eggless Cookies

Many of us love to combine a good biscuit with tea. I personally love the fresh, aromatic home made cookies. I still din't get the skill to make them with smooth finish like store bought ones :(. But I am just a beginner in baking and I stick to egg-less baking. Will surely update if I come to know the secret of making smooth cookies!!. Since this is my first post on baking I choose to start with this basic cookies. Hope you all like it :).

PS: Taking a short break from blogging . Will catch you all after my vacation soon :).

Basic Cookies

Cuisine: Indian Category: Snacks Difficulty level: Easy Prep Time: 10 mins Cook time: 30 mins Servings: 20 cookies

Ingredients All purpose flour 1 cup heaped Butter 1/3 cup Sugar 1/2 cup Baking Powder 1/2 Tsp Baking soda 1 Tsp Salt A tiny pinch Vanilla Essence 1 Tsp Preparation      1.     Preheat the oven at 180ᵒC for 10 minutes.

Method            1.     Assemble all the ingredients. Butter should be at room temperature. In a bowl mix butter and sugar till the mix becomes creamy. You can do it with electric mixer or manually using a whisk as shown.     2.     Sieve the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt to the butter+sugar mix. Add vanilla essence and mix everything to get a smooth dough. No need to add water.     3.     Make small balls out of the dough, flatten them slightly and arrange in butter paper as shown. Once oven hits 180ᵒC , place the cookies and bake them for around 12 minutes. Take out and cool down.     4.     Once the cookies reach room temperature store them in airtight container and enjoy with tea!!                                           Notes

·         Do not add water for the dough. If it's too sticky you can add few spoons of flour.       ·         Instead of maida we can use self raising flour or a combo of wheat flour and maida in 1:1 ratio (1/2 cup atta+1/2 cup maida).      ·         If you like the cookies less sweet the reduce sugar measure to 1/3 cup. The measure depends on quality of sugar also hence after one or two trials you can fix the measure as per your preferrance.       ·         Make small patties and place them with enough space in between. The cookies tend to expand while baking.      ·         They may look soft when hot but after cooling down the cookies will surely become crisp.

The karate fighter is ready to enjoy the cookies:) How about you???