Christmas Delights - Eggless Cookies
Its been quite a while (actually a very long break) since I’ve been away from blogging to take care of things which required my immediate attention. Thank you for your concerned emails and comments, enquiring about me and my family, appreciate it very much.:)
Yay! its that time of the year again.:) Wishing all my readers, visitors and friends a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I also like to take this opportunity to thank all my readers from the world over for your continued support and sweet comments. Thank you very much!
These past few days, I baked and baked and baked for Christmas and New Year. Made batch after batch of cookies and cakes for family and friends.
Day 1 - Rich fruit cakes
Day 2 - Chocolate Brownies
Day 3 - Chocolate Chip and Almond Cookies
Day 4 - Tutti-frutti Cookies & Oats and Cocoa Cookies (eggless)
Day 5 - Cornflakes Cookies (eggless)
Day 6 - Russian Tea Cakes/Snowballs (eggless)
Day 7 - Gift wrapping all of them:)
Today, I am sharing three types of cookie recipes and sending them off to Susan of Foodblogga who is hosting Eat Christmas Cookies Event.
Custard powder and tutti frutti are the main ingredients that add oomph and flavor to this basic cookie recipe. With a colorful topping, these delicious goodies are an absolute favorite at our home with a wonderful mouthfeel.
Eggless Tutti-Frutti Cookies Recipe
Preparation: 10-12 mts, Baking: 12 mts
Makes approx 28-30 cookies
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2 cups all purpose flour (maida)
1 cup vegetable oil
1 cup powdered sugar
1/2 cup custard pwd
3/4 tsp baking pwd
big pinch of baking soda
1 tsp vanilla essence
tutti frutti for garnish
1 Sieve maida, baking pwd, baking soda and custard pwd.
2 Blend the sugar and oil till smooth. Add the sieved ingredients to the sugar-oil mixture. Add vanilla essence and mix well to form a dough. If the dough doesn’t become stiff enough to roll out into balls, add a few tbsps of cold milk or water and chill for a few minutes.
3 Pinch bits of dough and shape into balls and slightly flatten. Or you could alternately pipe the dough into small balls. Garnish with tutti frutti, by slightly pressing into the dough. Place on a greased tray and bake at 180 C for about 10 -12 mts or till done. Once baked, the cookie will feel soft on touch but once cool it will harden. If you over bake beyond the mentioned time limit, you will have a very crunchy cookie.
4 Cool on a wire rack and store in airtight container.
This recipe I have adapted from a cooking magazine and its the first time that I am making it as a trial batch. The cookie has a sweet crunchy bite of cornflakes and granulated sugar and it tastes better with age.
Eggless Cornflakes Cookies Recipe
Preparation: 15 mts, Baking : 22-25 mts
Makes approx 18 cookies
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3/4 cup crushed cornflakes
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup all-purpose flour (maida)
1/2 cup butter, melted
3/4 tsp baking pwd
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 Blend the sugar and butter till smooth. Add maida, baking pwd, vanilla essence and crushed cornflakes and mix well to form a dough. If the dough doesn’t become stiff enough to roll out into balls, add a few tbsps of milk and chill for a few minutes.
2 Be careful when shaping out the dough into small balls, as it does take effort to hold it together to form small balls and slightly flatten them. IF the dough is crumbly, its alright. Take care and shape into slightly flattened balls. Place on a greased tray and bake at 175 C for about 25 mts or till golden brown.
3 Cool on a wire rack and store in airtight container.
This recipe which calls for oats and cocoa, crumble quickly and have a soft and melt in the mouth feel with a intense chocolate flavor and the oats compliments the chocolate with a bit of crumbly crunch. But after a day of sitting the flavors of the cookie really came together well. Those who love a strong chocolate flavor will love these not-so-good looking, cracky cookies. Don’t go by the looks, its downright delicious!:)
Eggless Oats-Cocoa Cookies Recipe
Preparation: 10 mts, Baking : 10-12 mts
Makes approx 20 cookies
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1 1/4 cup oats (I use Quakers)
1/2 cup vegetable oil + 1 tbsp oil
1/2 cup all-purpose flour (maida)
1 cup powdered sugar
1 1/2 tbsps unsweetened cocoa pwd (adjust according to your taste)
3/4 tsp baking pwd
big pinch of baking soda
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 Sieve maida, baking pwd, baking soda and cocoa pwd.
2 Blend the sugar and oil till smooth. Add the sieved ingredients to the sugar-oil mixture. Add vanilla essence and oats and mix well to form a very soft dough. If the dough doesn’t become stiff enough to roll out into balls, add a few tbsps of milk and chill for a few minutes. Be careful when shaping out the dough into small balls, as it does take effort to hold it together to form small balls and slightly flatten them.
3 Place on a greased tray and bake at 180 C for about 10-12 mts or till done.
4 Cool on a wire rack and store in airtight container.
By sailu • Dec 24th, 2007 • Category: All Recipes, Cakes & Cookies, Flour Recipes
Sailu!! Those christmassy delights did delight me!!! Amazing cookies dear!!!
Wishing u n family a very merry christmas and happy new year!!
Merry Christmas and a very happy new year Sailu. Cookies look yum, specially the last one. See you after the 1st, on break. Enjoy!:))
Hi,
Thank you for these eggless recipes. I was looking for a good one for the past two days.
-Swathi
Wow..so nice to see you back Sailu. Thats such a nice list of cookies. They look beautiful. Wish you also a merry christmas and happy new year.
wow sailu garu! glad to see you back with a big bang of cookies. those cookies are looking lovely and custard powder in cookie dough?wonderful idea. loved those goodie bags and especially tutti frity cookies are my today’s fav.
madhavi
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year! That is a LOT of baking!!! The cookies all look great, I particularly like the Tutti-Frutti cookies
Merry Christmas to you! Those cookies look really yummy. I am gonna try these tomorrow. Glad to see you back here.:-)
Beautiful packaging! All the cookies look delicious. Thanks for all the wonderful recipes and beautiful photos this year. Looking forward to more in the coming year.
Best,
Paz
awesome sailu!! the cookies and the presentation look awesome..Happy New Yr to you and your family
Sailu, not only are these absolutely delicious, but they are so beautifully wrapped. The recipients will be all smiles when they receive their goodies. Thank you so much for submitting your cookies to my event. They will make wonderful additions. Cheers,Susan
Dear Sailaja,
Nice to see you back…Really missed you and your recepies..Wonderful cookies there..Thank You for sharing..Wish you and your family too a Merry Christmas and a Wonderful new year…!
Dear Sailu,
Oh my god! You are the best. You have once again inspired me. Thank you very much. Merry Christmas and A Very Happy New Year to you and your family.
Wow what a wonderful array of cookies… Love the cookies and the wraps!!! yay i know how to make those roses…Happy holidays and happy New Year Sailaja..
Lovely recipes…..awesome and colorful entry. Love the cookies with the tutti fruity.
It is so good to see you back in action my friend. Happy Holidays to you and the family.
Nice to see you back Sailu, missed u lots. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your family
Thanks a lot for sharing the recipe for eggless tutti fruity cookie. I tried and it turned out very well. I have posted it in my blog. Thanks once again.
Your most welcome, Mythreyee.:)
What is maida? (In the chocolate/oat cookies recipe)
All-purpose flour.
I’d tried some of your recipes and I’m very new to your blog but after oct there was no posting and I was a little anxious. everytime I browsed I never missed to chk it you’ve posted any recipes…. and now I’m doubly happy to see so many recipes appearing one after another like magic…. great Sailu and wish to see more and more of yur posts.
Love,
Meena
Wow!!! thats a lot of cookies and so beautifully packed too. Your friends are lucky!!!
Happy Neww Year!!!
Hi Sailu,
Those Tutti-Frutti cookies look really yummy. I will try those. Happy New year and Pongal.
Cookies, cake and the Gongura Maamsam all look so good Sailu! A very Happy New Year to you guys! Hope you had a fun holidays and wishing you guys a wonderful year ahead! Looking forward to some lovely posts from you
Hi Sailu! I’ve been a big fan of your blog, lovely cookies. Can you please please post the recipe of hyderabadi Osmania Buiscuits or salt buiscuits. I’ve searched the whole web but couldn’t find the recipe. Great Blog!! Keep Rocking!!
Hi Sailu..first time commenting here..followed this link through foodblogga..wow..the cookies and their packaging is marvellous..I tried your oats cookies today, we all know their nutritional value n benefits to health, but it appealed to me as my daughter who has been allergic to milk n milk products can easily have these high fibre cookies minus the butter! So special thanks to you for posting and sharing these! Happy Sankranti to you too!
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Hi! Sailu, I’m big fan of ur cooking. Can u tell me can we use butter instead of parchment paper or as cookie sheet. Secondly from where should i get these Tutti-Frutti. I searched for it in many places but i dont get these. Actually what are these???
Plz positively reply to me question cause i’m making ur fruit cake on my marraige aniversary.
By the way ur ROCKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you, Mona. You can use butter paper as cookie sheet. Tutti-frutti is available in any good food /departmental stores in India. If you don’t have tutti-frutti to prepare the fruit cake, omit it and carry on with the rest of the ingredients.
All the best and happy wedding anniversary (in advance).-:)
Hi! Sailu, Thanks for your reply. I got tutti-frutti. Can u tell me one thing that if i make fruit cake in microwave oven for such long time, it wont get harden?
Waiting for ur reply……..
Thanks again. Bye!!!!!!!
I have never tried baking in an Microwave Oven, Mona.
Great cookie recipies !
Looking for you Russian teacake/ snowballs recipie.
Please send the link.
Thanks alot in advance:)
Hi Sailu,
I just finished making a batch of the wonderful tutti-frutti cookies (with pistas instead!). Very easy to make and crisp. Only doubt i have is the dough was not stiff (not sticky) but a bit more on the softer side. I kept in fridge while the oven was heating up. Is this normal? The cookies were flat.. may be i flattened it a bit too much. But please tell me how the consistency of dough should be.
Thanks!
Hi Sailu,
I have been following your website for quite sometime now. Myself & mom-in-law are great fans of baking and keep trying new varieties all the time…we initially failed to make the Indian bakery style cookies at home and thanks to your tutti-fruity cookie recipe we successfully accomplished that.
But I wanted to know, where do you get tutti-fruity in the US? Please suggest.
Thanks
Sobhana
Thank you for visiting my blog and feedback on the recipe, Shobana. I’m not sure where its available in US since I live in India.
the custard powder I have is yellow from weikfield. which custard powder did you use? my cookies looked yellow and were hard and did not look like the powdery ones you have shown in the picture
hi,sailu i am great fan of urs. i live at amalapuram ,the btiful konaseema.letme clear a small doubt.i own a ifb convectional microwave. can i bake cakes n cookies in my one as in an otg. pl let me know the stepsntips my kids r great lovers of these. reply as fast as you can.
looking forward for ur reply
Vani, I don’t bake in microwave though you can bake in a microwave. I am not sure of the time of baking for these cookies. You could try a small trial batch and bake for 3-4 mts maybe and test if they come out well.
Hi Sailu
I tried ur tutti frutti cookies and they turned out great…….but I just wanted to know if I can use unsalted butter instead of the oil in the cookies…!!
I live in US and we dnt use vegetable oil at all at home……!! so plz suggest a substitute for the vegetable oil plz…
Dear Sailu,
These cookies looks awesome,i want to try,but can i know how to make them without a oven??can’t cookies be made without a oven??pls clarify my doubt..
Hi all,
For more Cookie recipes and A FREE COOKIE RECIPE eBOOk, visit:
http://delicious-christmas.blogspot.com
Cheers.
dear sailu
the recipes look so gud n yummy happy new year.
hey sailu
do u have khaju katli recipe in ur blog??? am not able to find it….let me know if u have…
Dear Sailu,
I tried your tutty fruity eggless cookies at home. My cookies got browned at the bottom and little bit uncooked at the top. What could have gone wrong ? Pls let me know I have been longing to make cookies at home. Thanks in advance.
Probably the baking pan is too close to oven bottom or cookies are very thick. Spread out the cookie dough with slightly damp fingers on an aluminium cookie sheet and place the sheet to top position of the oven.
Hi Sailu garu,
I made tutti-fruti cookies yesterday, usually I make these using almond powder, custard powder is new for me. They turned out great. I made two changes for this recipe, instead of using all purpose flour and vegetable oil, I used canola oil and 100% white whole wheat flour. They don’t look like yours(colour), but tastes great. Thanks for recipe.
Rathnam