I made these cookies a while ago when my cousin visited us. It was derived from a marble cookie recipe that I found somewhere. I changed them completely to make them eggless. They are also very mildly sweet, the way I like them. They were bit on the harder side, but still I loved the taste.
Vanilla part: 1 cup all purpose flour 1/4 tea spn salt 1/4 cup sugar 4 tbl spn butter 1/2 tea spn vanilla extract 1/2 tea spn baking powder 1/4 cup milk
Method: Beat together butter and sugar till they are well incorporated. Add vanilla extract, milk and beat again. Add salt, flour and baking powder. Mix well into a dough.
Chocolate part: 1 cup all purpose flour 1/4 tea spn salt 1/4 sugar 4 tbl spn butter 1/2 tea spn vanilla extract 1/2 tea spn baking powder 1/4 cup milk + 2 tea spns 3 tbl spn cocoa powder
Method: Beat together butter and sugar till they are well incorporated. Add vanilla extract, 1/4 cup milk and beat again. Add salt, flour, baking powder and cocoa powder. Mix well into a dough. If required, add remaining milk 1/2 tea spn milk at a time to make a soft pliable dough.
Putting together the cookie: Knead both the doughs separately. Preheat the oven at 375 F. Make about 2 inch thick diameter ropes from the dough. Flatten the rope a bit by pressing down the rope a bit. Keep the chocolate flavored rope down and on top of it, keep the vanilla flavored dough. Dip a sharp knife in loose floor(to avoid sticking to knife) and cut the dough into as thin rings as possible (you can shape them into rounds again, but I liked the shape, so left them as they were). Keep the rings on a greased baking sheet and bake for about 10-13mins. When they are cooled to room temperature, store in airtight containers.
PS: These are very mildly sweet. So I sprinkled some loose sugar on top before putting the cookies in oven.
My aayi keeps reminding me about nutritional values of almonds and suggests me to add it to my diet. Every time she told me about it, I would go and buy one pack of almond. Last week, I found I had a huge pack of almonds at home. So I thought of making cookies with them. I tried the first recipe that I found from here . I changed it a bit to suit our taste and also make them eggless. The cookies turned out to be awesome. I am going to make some more again now.
Ingredients: 1/2 cup butter 1/2 cup all purpose flour 1 cup(150gms) almonds 1/2 tea spn baking powder 3/4 cup sugar 1 tea spn vanilla extract 1/4 tea spn salt Few chocolate morsels(optional)
Method: Grind almonds into powder – it need not become very fine. Keep aside. Preheat the oven at 375F for about 10mins. Mix butter and sugar till they form a uniform mixture. Now add almond powder, baking powder, vanilla extract, salt, all purpose flour and mix. Make small balls from the mixture and keep them on a greased cookie sheet. Leave enough space between two balls as the cookies expand after baking. Keep one chocolate morsel on the cookie (optional). Bake at 375F for about 12-15mins. When they are cooled to room temperature, they become very crispy.
Makes about 2 dozen cookies
