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Today we are going to make peanut cookies.
These cookies are very tempting and you all will really like it.
Today we are going to make special peanut cookies for valentine’s day.
So we’ll make them in heart shape.
So come, let’s prepare peanut cookies.
Maida - 1 cup or 120 gram
Powdered sugar - 1 cup or 150 gram
Roasted peanuts - ¾ cup or 100 gram
Butter - 100 gram
This is salted butter, you can also take unsalted butter
Melted butter - 1/2 cup
Vanilla essence
Tutti Frutti - 2 to 3 tbsp
Milk - ¾ cup
Green cardamom (Chhoti elaichi) - 6
Baking powder - 1 tsp
To make peanut cookies, first we’ll crush the peanuts.
Crush the peanuts very fine.
Peel off the green cardamom and make a powder.
We have crushed the cardamom.
Now let’s prepare a dough for the cookies.
Add melted butter to a big bowl.
Make sure the butter is not too hot.
Now add the powdered sugar to it.
Keep stirring till the mixture appears fluffy.
Add ½ tbsp vanilla essence.
Mix it well.
Now add 1 tsp baking powder to another bowl containing maida.
Add cardamom powder and mix it well.
Add the crushed peanuts to the bowl.
Now add the maida mixture to the big bowl containing powdered sugar, melted butter and vanilla essence.
Keep stirring till all the ingredients mix properly and knea a dough for the cookies.
If the mixture appears dry then add 1-2 tsp milk.
Knead the dough for the cookies this way, using your hands.
Pour the milk using a spoon as this will help us in adding the right quantity and the mixture will not become thin.
We have added 4 tsp milk to knead this much dough.
Knead the dough a little more to make it smooth.
Our dough for the peanut cookies is now ready.
Let's bake the cookies now.
Preheat the oven on 180 centigrade.
Take little amount of dough, roll it and flatten it like this giving it a shape of cookies.
Spread dry maida on a rolling board so that it does not stick.
Apply some dry flour on the rolling pin as well.
Use a rolling pin to roll out a ⅓ cm thick disc.
Cut the cookies using a cookie cutter.
Grease a baking tray using butter or oil.
Place the cookies on the tray at a distance from one another.
Decorate the cookies by putting the different coloured tutti frutti on the top.
Put the tutti frutti on the cookies this way.
Tutti frutti is made from papaya.
The recipe tutti frutti is available on our website and youtube channel.
Tutti frutti is easily available in the market.
You can also decorate the cookies by putting cherries, almonds or peanuts on the top.
You can decorate the cookies with whatever you like.
Once the cookies are ready, we’ll bake them.
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and put the cookies tray on the wired stand.
Set the microwave on convection mode.
Set the oven on 180 centigrade for 12 minutes.
Bake the cookies for 12 minutes and then check.
Till the time our cookies bake, let’s prepare more cookies from the remaining dough.
Now let's check the cookies.
The cookies appear brown from the top.
Our cookies are baked.
It will take around 17 minutes to bake the cookies.
Firstly, we baked the cookies for 12 minutes, they were light brown.
Then we baked them for another 5 minutes at 180 centigrade.
We will bake the remaining cookies in another oven at 160 centigrade.
Place the baking tray on a stand and set the oven on 160 centigrade for 10 minutes.
10 minutes are over, let’s check the cookies.
They appear brown, this means they are baked.
This will take different time in different ovens depending on the temperature.
Put the cookies on the rack and let them get frigid.
Once the cookies are cool, take them out from the baking tray.
Peanut cookies are now ready.
Very tasty and crispy peanut cookies are prepared.
We have prepared 28 cookies from this much dough.
We have made peanut cookies by crushing peanuts and mixing it in maida.
We can even take almonds or coconut in place of peanut.
In this way, we can prepare the cookies in different flavours.
We have prepared heart shaped cookies as they are made specially for valentine’s day.
Make these cookies and eat it or gift it to someone.
These cookies can be made in any shape like circular, square, rectangular, etc.
You can make these cookies whenever you want.
Once the cookies are cool, store them in a container and enjoy for 1-2 months.
Try this recipe at home and share your experiences with us.
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