Easy, colorful , soft and crumbly- says it all for this holiday baking goodie. Whether its an office party or school celebration or you’re just feeling in the mood of baking, you cannot go wrong with these almond cookies, topped with colorful jellies of apricot, strawberry, blackberry or for the adventurous, some mint jelly too! And the bonus point is getting the kids to eat almonds, without any complaints.
Receipe : 20 cookies
Baking time: 15 min
Preparation time : 15 min
Cooling time: 30 min
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cup almond flakes
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 tsp baking powder
- I 1/2 cup all purpose flour
- 5 oz unsalted butter
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/3 cup oil
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- Apricot Jams/Jelly for yellow color
- Strawberry Jams/jelly for red color
- Other jellies of your choice
- Baking tray
- Parchment Paper/Baking Liner
Method:
- Crush the almond flakes to coarse powder form
- Add flour to it and blend for a minute
- Add baking powder and salt and blend for another minute.
- Add sugar to the mix and pulse a few times.
- Beat the butter in a deep pan, using a blender, till the butter is two shades lighter than the original color or approx. 4-6 min.
- Add the flour mix to the flour and blend/beat for further 2 min.
- Gently mix the dough with a spatula into a soft kneaded dough look.
- Make 20 balls of equal size.
- Pre heat the oven to 375 degrees F. Use convection oven if possible.
- Line parchment paper on a baking tray
- Roll each ball into a bowl filled with brown sugar.
- Make a small dip in the center
- Bake in the oven for 15 min, switching racks after 7 minutes and switching front to back every 4 min.
- Remove from oven after 15 min, depress the center
- Allow it to cool for at least 15 min.
- Top it with the jelly filling of your choice.
- Gently stone in an airtight container.
Tips
When you remove the cookies from oven, they will appear to be undercooked, but they are not.
If you are not going to consume all in a day/two, do not spoon the jelly, as the moisture will soften the cookies. Store the extra cookies in an airtight container for latter use.
Instinct Factor
Making round balls and depressing in the center is equivalent to making Baati in Rajasthani cuisine!
Feel Factor
The softest eggless crumb cookie, I have ever tasted, and the colorful jelly on the top is so attractive,making it difficult to resist.
Bon Appetit!
An adapted recipe that has been modified
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