Today is the fourth day of Blogging Marathon and I tried another vegan recipe to today. Vanaspathi or shortening is a fat extracted from vegetables and is a great substitute for butter in baking. While going through a recipe book, I saw this recipe. As I am posting under Vegan bakes theme, I thought this recipe would be appropriate. This recipe gave very light, crisp, melt in the mouth biscuits. Sruti helped me in the preparation. She pressed the mould on the dough and she made impressions with the fork. Then she relished the biscuits which was the greatest help to me. I am linking this to Kid’s Delight– Eggless and Vegan Bakes guest hosted by Priya and started by Srivalli.
Ingredients:
Flour-125gm
Salt-3/4tsp
Vanaspathi-75gm
Powdered Sugar-60gm
Vanilla Essence-1tsp
Procedure:
1. Mix all the ingredients in a bowl. The dough will be very crumbly.
2. Place it in a wrap and refrigerate for 30minutes.
3. On a counter, press the dough and roll it into a circle of 1/8″thick.
4. Cut desired shapes with cutter.
5. Place the biscuits on a lined tray. Leave enough space since these biscuits spread a lot.
6. Preheat oven to 175C.
7. Bake the biscuits for 15-20minutes or until the bottom starts browning.
8. The biscuits will be very crumbly when hot. So leave the tray on the counter to cool completely.
9. Once cool the biscuits will become light and crisp. Store in air tight jar.
10. Serve with a cup of coffee.
Mix the crumbly dough.
Cover with wrap and refrigerate for 30minutes.
Roll out the dough and cut out the biscuits.
Arrange on a lined tray.
Prick with fork and bake.
Serve.
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Linking this to Anjali’s Cakes, Cookies and Desserts.
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Looks super gayatri 🙂
wow…yummy n crunchy biscuits…..
The biscuits have a good texture.
delicious biscuits gayatri 🙂
Very very yummy Gayatri.
Awesome recipe… bookmarked!!!
Preeti
Preeti’s Kitchen Life
looks yum!!!
Fantastic, I say! 😀
Perfectly baked biscuits! 🙂
super biscuits!
This looks awesome and yummy
Aarthi
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Did you use all purpose flour gayatri?
what is vanaspati?
Vanaspathi is nothing but Dalda, Sindhu!
perfectly baked biscuits…awesome job…inviting clicks!!
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Hmm melting in mouth, simply awesome crispy biscuits…
Superb Gayathri..love the mould..
Perfect looking biscuits! love it..
These are wonderful and very delicious looking biscuits
flour means what flour? my kid is allergic for gluten, can i try it with rice flour?can u tell me some recipes for gluten free snacks.
Hi Shanmugapriya, These cookies are made with maida. I don’t know whether it will work out with rice flour. But there is a recipe for rice flour cookies in my blog. http://gayathriscookspot.blogspot.com/2013/02/eggless-naan-berenji-persian-rice-flour.html This comes out very nice. Have a try.
Hi Gayathri,
I wanted to try this yummy receipe but I have a doubt……you haven’t use baking soda or baking powder, Have you missed to mention or the biscuits will rise without these ingredients?
Thanks in advance.
Gentle, the recipe depends on the vanaspathi and doesn’t need leavening agent.
Thanks for the reply Gayathri,
I tried this receipe today morning and the result is very good :)Everyone loved these biscuits.
can we replace vanaspati with oil? if yes, the qty please. Could you pls post SALTED COOKIE recipe USING OIL instead of butter or vanaspati. Thank you
I don’t prefer oil in cookies. It turns out very crispy. And substituting vanaspathi with oil will not produce the same texture.
Can i use butter? Thanks
Yes, you can use, but the texture and taste will be very different.
Hello!
Ma’am I’m going to try this today.. But I have one doubt there is no moisture in this recipe.. So my dough is really very crumbly.. It’s not looking like that dough which is u posted the picture here..
You can add a little bit of vanaspathi. This recipe doesn’t use any liquid which is why the biscuits melt in mouth.