Make The Best Wedding Day Cookies

For this month Home Bakers Challenge Priya  chose popular French bakes and wanted to try the baguette but due to lots of work I couldn't. Sables are melt in mouth crispy short bread cookies which is easy to make and its an egg less recipe too.As I had one stick of butter I halved the measurement and made.I used a small square cookie cutter and a round flower shaped,you can use any shape and make the cookies.Now off to the recipe........................... Basic Information Preparation time 15 minutes Baking Time 15-20 minutes Makes 10-12 (2 inch cookies) Ingredients Ingredient Quantity All purpose flour/maida 11/4 cups Powdered sugar 1/4 cup+1tbs Softened Butter/vennai 1/2cup Salt a pinch Vanilla Extract 1/2 tsp Milk 1 tsp Method Beat the butter and sugar together until creamy and fluffy.Add in the vanilla extract,milk or water, beat for few minutes. Now add the flour and salt, mix well and make a smooth dough.Divide the dough to two...

For this month Home Bakers Challenge, Priya Ranjit   has chosen Christmas cookies,cakes and Jewish Challah bread. I tired the vegan version using the gram flour(besan) and it came out so delicious and soft but I couldn't braid it properly. Sangeetha  suggested to dry roast the besan as she had the feeling of besan smell,so dry roasted it.If you are using besan dry roast it for couple of minutes in a medium flame and use.As I made a braided bread for first time I scaled down the measurement and made a 10 inch loaf.Now off to the recipe.............. Basic Information Recipe Source Sweet Life Preparation time 15 minutes Resting time 1 hour+45 minutes Baking Time 40-45 minutes Makes 10 inch loaf Ingredients Ingredient Quantity All purpose flour/maida 11/2-2cups Active Yeast/instant yeast 1tsp Sugar 1/4cup Gram flour/kadalamaavu 1/4cup Olive Oil 3tbs Water 1cup Salt 3/4tsp Sesame seeds/yellu 1tsp Method Dry roast the gramflour/be...

Being October Halloween month I chose recipes which fits to the theme for the Home Bakers Challenge,one among the recipe is Witch Fingers. The recipe is from All Recipes.com with an egg,but I wanted to try without egg as Priya's,eggless version came out good.Just I skipped the egg part and rest of the recipe remains the same.Try this mouth melting witch finger cookies for the Halloween and enjoy,here goes the recipe.................... Basic Information Preparation Time 15 minutes Resting Time       30 minutes Baking Time       25 Minutes Makes                  35-40 Cookies Ingredients Ingredient Quantity All purpose flour 22/3cups Confectionery Sugar 1 cup Butter/vennai 1cup Almonds/badam 3/4cup Salt 1tsp Vanilla extract 1/2tsp Almond extract 1/2tsp Baking powder 1tsp Method Combine the butter, sugar and vanilla extract in a mixing bowl. Beat togethe...

We group of people started a monthly event for baking for both bloggers and non-bloggers initiated by Priya of Priyas Versatile recipes. For this month challenge, Divya of Divya's culinary journey announced 4 different pizza with the home made tomato sauce,a recipe from Martha Stewart . As we love the veggie pizza I chose to make it with the veggies such such as onion,capsicum,mushrooms and baby corn for the toppings.The tomato sauce here I used is the store bought and with the herbs.Now on to the recipe.......................... Ingredients Ingredient Quantity All purpose flour 31/4cups+for dusting Instant yeast 1 package(21/2tsp) Salt 1tsp Sugar 1/4tsp Warm water 1cup Olive oil 31/2tbs+more for bowl Tomato sauce 4-5tbs Italian Seasoning 1/2tsp Mixed Veggies(onion.tomato, capsicum,mushroom,baby corn) as needed Mozarilla cheese 1/2-3/4cup Oil (for brushing) 1tsp(optional) Method In a bowl add the flour,instant yeast,salt and sugar add the warm wa...