Saturday, 27 February 2016

Choclate petals biscuits

Well I shared the pinwheel cookies earlier and though the recipe needs some patience, the beautiful and crunchy cookie completely deserves it. So in another attempt to make some beautiful looking cookies I tried making one flower imprinted by chocolate. Though I couldn't get the complete flower design I was looking for when I started making them, to my surprise the one I got was equally amazing. It looked like petals of a flower or imprint of a cub's footprints (I could relate more to latter). In any case they were nice, crisp and smelled like heaven fresly out of oven. For any kind of cookies I bake, I feel they taste best fresh put of oven. Though you can't really finish them all up that way and you don't want to if you want to keep some to enjoy later. But I personally prefer eating most of them fresh from oven. 

Ingredients:
1 cup wholewheat flour
1 tablespoon cocoa powder 
1/4 cup butter 
1/2 cup sugar
2 tablespoon milk

Recipe:

Cut the butter into small pieces and mix with flour. Rub together using hands till the mixture resembles crumbles. Add powdered sugar and knead dough using milk. Divide dough in two parts. To one part add cocoa powder and knead using more milk if needed. Cocoa should mix well with dough and appear brown. Cover both dough balls and refrigerate for 15 minutes. Remove dough from refrigerator. Take the cocoa one and divide into 4 equal parts. Roll each one of them into 1/2 inch width cylinder. Make sure they all are of same size. Take white dough and roll it to a rectangular shape . Its length should be as much as of chocolate cylinder shape we made. Pictures below would make it clear to understand. Now this is the mostly difficult part of preparation so keep some patience and do not worry if you need to roll them over again a couple of times to get desired shape and size. Once white dough is rolled out in rectangular shape , place the chocolate one along the length one after the other. Gently and carefully start rolling from one length of base taking over the chocolate one till next end. Make sure there is no gap left inside else it will cause holes in cookies when we cut them later. Cover the roll with cling film and leave in freezer to harden up . Aftet half an hour take it out and remove cling film. It should have hardened to make it easy to cut into slices length wise. Gently slice them using a knife into 1/3 inch discs. Preheat oven to 180C . Place cookies onto greased baking tray and bake for around 20 minutes. They will be little softer first but will turn firm after cooling down.









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