Monday, August 8, 2011

EGGLESS CHOCOLATE COOKIES

      It has been a long time since i bought a coco powder  and i wanted to use it by making any chocolate cookies or chocolate cake. When i saw this eggless chocolate cookies in Priti's blog and  i book marked it on the same day she posted and i finally made it today. You can find the original recipe here. They turned out so nice and my kids loved this  very much.
This recipe yielded approximately 26 cookies.
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INGREDIENTS:
ALL PURPOSE FLOUR 1 AND 1/2 CUP
POWDERED SUGAR 3/4 CUP
COCO POWDER 3 TBLSP
BUTTER 1/4 CUP
YOGURT 1/4 CUP
BAKING POWDER 1 TSP
VANILLA ESSENCE 1/2 TSP
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METHOD:

  • Powder the sugar( 1/2 cup +2 tblsp of sugar gives 3/4 cup of powdered sugar)
  • Whisk yogurt, sugar and butter until fluffy.
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  • Sieve the all purpose flour, coco powder and baking powder.
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  • Fold the butter, sugar and yogurt mixture to the flour. Add vanilla essence to this .
  • Make it into a pliable dough without any lumps. The dough will be sticky at this stage.
  • Cling wrap it and refrigerate for an hour.
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  • After an  hour take it out and take out a small portion and make it into small balls.
  • Flatten it with your palm and if you want you can make lines with fork as i did.
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  • Pre heat the oven to 160 C
  • Grease the tray and place the flattened dough on them.
  • Bake it for 10-12 mins.
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  • Mine got done in 12 mins.
  • Cool on the wire rack. Store them in airtight container.
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