Wednesday 1 April 2015

Indian tea shop butter biscuits/cookies

This month's Blogging Marathon is very interesting. It is nicknamed "Fire up your oven". This entire month I have taken up the challenge of posting recipes which involve a great deal of baking.

I actually took this challenge up since I wanted to learn some good baking techniques and recipes. I haven't ventured much into that area. So first I am starting with a very basic biscuit recipe.

I have tasted these biscuits very often in tea shops. It costs around 2 or 3 rupees per biscuit. Just 2 biscuits and a glass of chai and you wont feel hungry for the next 2-3 hours. I love to have these that too when we are on a long drive.

I was actually amazed that these can be made at home and that the recipe is so simple. I will definitely be making this more often.


Ingredients
Butter at room temperature - ½ Cup (110 grams)
Confectioners Sugar - ½ Cup (65 grams)
All purpose flour - 1 Cup (130 grams)
Salt - ⅛ teaspoon
Pure Vanilla Extract - ½ teaspoon




Method:
Sift sugar over butter and cream until light and fluffy.


Add the flour, salt and vanilla at once and mix until combined.


Knead for 2-3 minutes and make it into a soft dough.



Transfer the dough to a cling wrapped surface and make a log. cover it with cling wrap.
Refrigerate the dough for an hour.

After about an hour, Preheat the oven to 350F/180C
Remove the dough from refrigerator and cut the dough into half inch thick cookies.

Bake in a preheated 350F/180C oven for 22-25 minutes, rotating the pans halfway through. When they start to brown, they are done. Have an eye as they can go from brown to burnt very fast!
Transfer to a cooling rack for 15-20 minutes.



Notes:
Store in an airtight container for up to a week.

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25 comments:

  1. Glad you took the opportunity to try baking for a month. I am sure you will enjoy it. Your tea time biscuits have turned out great. Waiting to see what other goodies you have baked this month.

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  2. Ahh, my favorite, I remember buying this regular in our local bakery way back when we were in school!!! Salted butter biscuit was my favorite, looks super tempting!!!

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  3. Cookies turned out good and looking forward to see what you have baked.

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  4. These biscuits are something I still look forward to when I go to India. Grew up eating this :) You have brought back amazing memories :)

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  5. great to have u in the BM, Ruchi ! these remind me of the local bakery way back in school days ! good start to the BM

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  6. The biscuits looks nice and buttery , i am sure two are enough:) good opportunity to involve in baking.

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  7. Can happily munch on these... Very nicely made.. Nice way to start the marathon

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  8. These are such classic biscuits..good to have you try all these..

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  9. not only with tea I can enjoy this biscuits any time nicely baked...

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  10. Tea kadai biscuits are my family fav and you have made it perfect.

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  11. This is my daughters fav biscuit.Good one! Looking forward to the other bakes....

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  12. Oh road trips are never complete without a half at tea shops and digging into that glass jar beautifully lined with these biscuits. Good start to the marathon!

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  13. Oh road trips are never complete without a half at tea shops and digging into that glass jar beautifully lined with these biscuits. Good start to the marathon!

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  14. These look perfectly done. good one to start the marathon.

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  15. What a lovely start. The time time cookies looks so perfectly baked!!

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  16. These cookies are all time classics! Tea-kada biscuits :-)

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  17. Wonderful to run BM with u... i know how addictive this biscuits are..well done.

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  18. ahhh nostalgic moments. These tea biscuits are very famous in my native. 2 biscuits and tea is famous combo

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  19. this is a great start to this marathon and the cookies are so typical indian , i loved the recipe seems very simple

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  20. Such a crunchy and mouth melting biscuits,I too made this one for this BM...

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  21. All time favorite cookies.. Very much addictive they are.

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  22. Your butter cookies look like they'll melt in your mouth. So delicious!!

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  23. Lovely butter cookies. They have turned out beautifully. Glad you joined us. Waiting to see your bakes in the coming days.

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  24. Every Indian probably have fond memories attached to these cookies. I am sure you will end up loving baking post this marathon. :)

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  25. wow these cookies sure look melt in mouth kind :) very addictive ones , you have baked them perfect..

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