Butter Cashew Biscuits / Cookies - My Guest Post @ Good Food

         Till from my childhood days friends occupy a major part of life. I give more importance to friends n friendship than to any other relationship. I missed many of my dear friends and i didn't know anything about them but at the same time my few intimate friends are still with me and i love to share my happiness and greetings with them on all important occasions. After entering in to this vast blogging world, i happen to get so many friends virtually :) I am so lucky to have such friends in my life and one such blogger dear friend , Sobha who blogs at Good Food. She is really a lovely person and i always amazed at her healthy cooking and egg less calorie less baking.  I am so excited when she asked me to do a guest post for her Chef's Favorite Series. And am so happy she starts the great event with my post as first, Thank You Sobha for this wonderful opportunity and i feel so honored. I shared me and my kids' favourite Butter Cashew Biscuits. I tried this so many times and now this has become my family favourite. These biscuits/cookies taste similar to Good Day Cashew Biscuits and even more fresh and flavourful than the store bought ones. Good day Biscuits and Bourbon biscuits are my favourite ones. I never thought that I could make those lovely cashew biscuits at home.

Ingredients

1. All Purpose Flour 1 and 1/4 cup
2. Rice Flour 1/3 cup
3. Butter 1/2 cup
4. Icing Sugar 1/2 cup
5. Baking Powder 1/4 tsp
6. Salt 1/2 tsp
7. Vaniila Extract 1/2 tsp
8. Cashew Nut 1/3 cup
9. Egg White from one large egg
10. Milk 2 tbsp

Method

• Preheat oven to 200 degree Fahrenheit.
• Line a baking tray with aluminium paper. Add few drops of olive oil, spread it and arrange the cashew nuts.
• Bake it for 8-10 minutes or until it turns light golden brown.
• Once done remove from the oven, allow to cool and grind it to a fine powder and keep aside.
• In a medium sized mixing bowl, sift flours ,salt,baking soda and combine well and keep ready.
• In another bowl, add butter and using an electric hand blender beat butter until light n fluffy.
• Add icing sugar and beat until fluffy and add vanilla, milk and egg white, then beat to combine.
• Now add flour mixture and gently mix everything well and using hands make it to a smooth dough.
• And cover the bowl, using cling wrap and refrigerate the dough for 2 hours.
• After 2 hours , line baking tray with parchment paper and keep ready.
• Preheat oven to 375 degree Fahrenheit.
• After that, divide the dough in to 3 equal parts. Place one part in a parchment/wax paper in a firm platform and place another parchment paper over the dough and press it.
• Using a rolling pin roll the dough firmly to 1/4 " thick and then remove the outer paper.
• Using a cookie cutter or any rim of a can/bottle, cut and place the cut out dough 2 inches apart into the already lined/greased baking tray . Then using a fork press each rolled out dough to get stripe impression.
• Then bake it for 15-18 minutes ( for me it took only 12 minutes) or till the edges n bottom turn light golden brown colour.
• Allow to cool them on wire racks and store it on air tight container.

Notes:

* Instead of Cashew nut you can also use Pistachios and Almonds or a combo of any two nuts.

* If you don't have icing sugar, just add 3/4 cup of granulated sugar to blender and powder it finely and use it. I tried using both icing and granulated sugar but icing sugar gives you more fine taste n melt in mouth cookies.

* If u find hard to roll the dough , simply take 2 teaspoons of dough, shape them in to small balls, about 1/4" inch thick and press gently using a glass bottom and place 2 inches apart in to the baking tray greased or lined with parchment paper

Hop on to Sobha's Space for the step wise pictures and more...Thank You!!