Baking is therapeutic. Other than taking your mind off the troubling concerns, the anticipation of the baked beauty even as the kitchen buzzes with the heavenly aromas is enough to soothe one’s frayed nerves.
Precisely what i did yesterday noon as I spent a good part baking these delightful cookies. It calmed me instantly and very soon i was humming !!
They had a light lemony flavour, and the buttery crunch hid the number of cookies (sadly not the calories) tucked in !
The recipe from here was easy to follow :-
What goes—
- Powdered sugar – 100 grams
- Butter (softened) – 70 grams
- Zest of lemon – 1 lemon
- All purpose flour – 110 grams
- Milk – 1 tbsp
- Food colour (i used orange red) – 1 tsp – as required
How:-
Keep the baking tray greased & set aside. Sift the powdered sugar into a large bowl. Add the butter and stir it in until the mixture is smooth. Add the zest of a lemon and stir in to the mixture.
Sift the flour into the bowl and mix well. Add milk
into the mixture.
Divide the dough in to half and add the food color in to one part.
Wrap both of them separately in food wrap. Put them in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
Sprinkle flour onto clean surface. Use a rolling pin to roll the plain dough as shown below. Roll out the coloured dough until it is the same size.
Brush the plain dough with a little water. Put the coloured dough on top of the plain dough.Cut the edges of the dough straight.
Roll it up from one long sidelike a log. Wrap it in food wrap.Put it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 175C. Take the dough out of the refrigerator.Cut it into 1/4 inch slices. Put them on the trays .
Bake for 10-12 minutes.Let it cool and bite in to melt-in the mouth goodies! The missing ones on the tray were popped in to the mouth straight from the oven , burnt toungue not-withstanding—:p
Partners in Crime !!
Looks quite beautiful and yummy never mind the calories though.
Wow….looks beautiful. And the way you have explained the process its great :)
waav..colourful!!!
Gorgeous cookies…I want some please ;)
Very inviting cookies. Love the spiralling effect..
wow they look so delicious!
Love it…As always great step by step clicks…I had tried to make it last year and somehow I was not able to cut the cookies…so instead of spiral cookies i ended up with Modern art cookies:-)
So you are also a fan of Agatha Cristi?? I'm totally addicted :-)
And yeah I agree baking gives immense satisfaction…Bookmarked. Love the way you have shown stepwise pics
Deepa
Hamaree Rasoi
Yup..baking is therapeutic n de stressing n always satisfying..
Your cookies look really PRETTY..very neatly done :)
US Masala
Hi Priya,
Thanks for stopping at my blog and pass your lovely comments.
Hey really very delicious,scrumptious receipe you have sharing with us…thanks alot.
Your stepbystep is awesome…keep going.
OMG,it looks gorgeous and colorful…
Looks gorgeous and nice pictorial explanation
Looks superb andvery nice explanation…
FunWidFud
Yeah, forget the calories! These cookies sound delicious! I love the lemon flavor in there!
Lovely cookies. Looks delicious.
I agree with you. Baking is really therapeutic.
cookies rock gal! love em!
Baking is never therapeutic for me. Too stressful!But looking at bakes are therapeutic :)
the cookies look beautiful and yummy!!…love the spiral thingi!
Smitha
Smitha's Spicy Flavors
Perfect…. Love the color and crunch.. Perfect for a care-free snack..
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Cookies looks perfect and amazing..love your step by step pictorial..thanks for sharing this great recipe…Have a nice weekend!