This
long weekend of Republic day, after a little looking around in the net. This is
what I found and made. My husband loved it and kids are all ready to show it off
in school tomorrow. I enjoys make this
and it’s a visual joy to see the end product.
I
summer fruit, recreated in winter. So, Enjoy Baking !
Ingredients
Butter – ¾ cup
Castor Sugar – ¾ cup
Egg – 1
Maida / all-purpose flour – 2 cups
Baking powder – ¼ tsp
Salt – 1 pinch
Red and green food colour
Chocolate chips – as required
Note : all in room temperature
Method
1.
Beat together butter and sugar until
light and fluffy.
2.
To this beat the egg for a min.
3.
Now add the essence and mix.
4.
In another bowl swift together
maida, baking powder and salt.
5.
Mix the dry mixture to the wet
mixture.
6.
Mix well and knead it to a dough.
7.
Reserve one cup of dough. Tint the
remaining dough into red and shape into a long cylindrical log around 12cm. Then
wrap in a plastic wrap.
8.
Tint 1/3 of the reserved dough with
green colour and wrap it into a plastic wrap.
9.
Wrap the remaining plain dough also
in a plastic dough.
10. Refrigerate the doughs for 2 hrs.
11. Lightly flour the rolling surface and
roll plain dough into a thin rectangular sheet long enough to cover the red
dough.
12. Place the red dough on the plain
dough sheet and rollup the plain dough to cover the red dough.
13. In the similar way roll the green
dough to a rectangular sheet. Place the red and plain dough roll on the sheet
and rollup to cover.
14. Wrap up in a plastic wrap and refrigerate
for 2 hrs.
15. Preheat the oven to 180OC.
16. Unwrap and cut the dough into 1/4
inch slices. Now cut the slices into half slices (like a half circle).
17. Press chocolate chips in the red
dough to resemble watermelon seed.
18. Line a baking tray with butter paper
and place these cookies with a little gap between each cookies.
19. Bake the cookies at 180OC
for 12 min.
20. Remove to cool.
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