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Salted Butter Cookies- Simple and Easy to make -only 4 ingredients

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  Butter- 1/2 cup Wheat flour- (Atta)-1 cup Sugar- 1/4 cup Salt- 1 teaspoon 1.Mix butter and powdered sugar in a mixing bowl 2. Use an electric/hand whisk to mix in same direction for atleast 5 minutes 3. Add wheat flour and salt and mix to a tight dough consistency I did not add water. Now bring the dough to a shape of a log and cover it with an aluminum foil and keep in fridge for an hour. Cut into small shapes. Pre-heat oven at 180c for 10 minutes.  Cover a baking tray with baking paper. Keep a few cookies allowing space between each other Cook in oven for 180c for 15 mins Delicious cookies are ready to serve!

Baking Made Simple- Reuse your Mini Idli Plates!

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In a time, where we should give more importance to 3 Rs- Reduce, Reuse and Recycle, how many of us are constantly trying to reduce our buying/consumption of goods we rarely use? If you are new to baking, here is a great innovative idea to try baking biscuits without any oven. I got delicious, yum biscuits in just 20 minutes. Ingredients for Whole Wheat flour Biscuits: 1 Cup Atta (Wheat flour) 2 tbsp of All Purpose Flour (Maida) 1/2 cup of melted butter (Ghee) 1/2 cup of white/brown sugar 1/4 tbsp of Cardamom powder 1/4 tbsp of Baking powder To Garnish: Mix of nuts of your choice- finely grated. Mix all the ingredients in a bowl and make a dough. Take a Mini idli mould like this and fill each pit with a small ball of dough. To make patterns on the idlis, you can even use Okra (Ladies Finger). Cut one okra and use it to imprint on the biscuit. You can even use any other patterns. I used something like Fryums (Rice Based Fries). Take a heavy bottom contai...