Poppy seeds and white chocolate chips cookies

Poppy seeds and white chocolate chips cookies

These days I want to explore a lot on recipes but I feel a little lazy in blogging and I am not happy about it. Nevertheless I want to record my experiments and share it with my readers. So here goes the recipe before I miss it from my mind :)

Ingredients

Whole wheat flour - 1 1/3 cup

Poppy seeds =- 2 tbspn

Butter- 1/2 cup

Sugar- 1/2 cup ( powdered)

Baking powder - a pinch

Egg - one ( optional)

Milk - few tspns

Vanilla essence- 1 tspn

Method

Preheat the oven  at 150 degrees Celsius

In a huge bowl mix the flour, poppy seeds, softened butter, baking powder, vanilla essence and egg. Use few spoons of milk just to bring the soft dough together.Please dont knead the dough hard! it will spoil the texture of the cookies.

Make small balls from the dough, slightly flatten it and keep on the greased baking tray and bake for about 15 mins or until the sides turn slightly brown. If you prefer to have a golden brown top turn the knob of the oven to grill mode for few minutes. Once done quickly remove the cookies with a spatula and let it cool on a wire rack.

Once cool the cookies will turn crispy and crunchy.

Bake and enjoy :)

Thanks!

Walnut and hazelnut wholewheat brownies

Its been sometime that I have not baked cake/brownie, the reason being I am becoming a little averse when it comes to adding the raising agents in the bakes. I am sure a person who loves baking cannot have such expectations but seriously speaking I hold back my selves from it. As it is there are a lot of unwanted things going into ours and ours kids body, so why more , got to wait and see as to how long it goes :)
You would have noticed that I love baking cookies, reason being we can bake cookies with min or no raising agents. But when last week when my son pleaded me to bake something I just couldn't say no to him and I started googling and found this wonderful recipe. I did give some slight  modifications but totally worth it. This recipe is worth saving with or without the changes, as the original recipe says it the best ever brownies..So here it goes

Ingredients

Butter - 185 gms
Cooking chocolate - 185 gms
Whole wheat flour +cocoa powder (3 tbspn)- 1 cup
100 gms - white chocolate bits
Half cup of hazelnuts and walnuts - coarsely chopped.
Vanilla essence - 1 tspn
Eggs- 3 
Sugar - 3/4 cup

Method

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius and prepare a wide square pan and keep aside.
Melt the butter and chocolate in a double boiler, once melted keep the mixture aside and let it cool.
Sieve the flour and cocoa and keep aside in the sieve.
Break the eggs and add in the sugar (powdered) and beat until soft and fluffy for around 5-7 mins. Add vanilla essence.
Gradually add the cooled chocolate-butter mixture and stir slowly with a spatula, making sure that you don't break the air in the beaten eggs.
Now gradually sift the flour-cocoa mixture into the batter and slowly fold in the batter using a spatula.
Finally add the white chocolate bits and the nuts bits and fold in again.
Now pour the batter in the pan, spread it out evenly and bake in the preheated oven for about 30-40 mins or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
I bet this brownies are yum!!!

Fresh fig cookies

As I mentioned in some other posts, living n Bangalore we get exposed to many varieties of  fruits and vegetables and I always get tempted to pick it up , taste, explore and one such baby is this fresh fig cookies and the result was not bad either ..Following is the recipe

Ingredients
Fresh figs puree- 1/2 cup ( remove the skin and blend)
Whole wheat flour - 1 and half cup
Butter - 1/3 cup
Sugar - 3 tbspns
Baking powder - 1/3 tspn
while chocolate chips ( optional)

Method
Preheat oven to 150 degrees
Mix the flour, butter, fig puree, sugar, baking powder  into a soft dough. Sprinkle the while chocolate chips if you have ( this is just for the extra USP with kids ) and then is is easy . Make small balls and place it in the greased tray and press slightly with a fork and bake in the top rack of the oven for 8-10 minutes or until you feel the bottom is browned and them change the mode of the oven to grill mode and grill for another few minutes till the top turns brown. Remove the tray from the oven and remove the cookies from the tray and let it to cool in the tray. The cookies should become hard and crisp when cooled. Enjoy!