Happy Children’s Day
Yesterday when my daughter returned from school, she was so much excited. As there was going to be children’s day celebration at school, it was a no bag day today and she was so happy that it was going to be her special day. She was talking about the day the entire evening. I told her about Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and how he is uncle for me and for her too. She asked me not to scold her today and I told her not do do any mischief today. When she went to school, she wanted me to prepare something which she likes the most. I accepted it and dropped her at the bus stop. I had to attend a marriage today and when I returned home by 12:30 PM, there was no power. Then at 2:00 PM it was restored and I started making these cookies from Tarla Dalal’s Chocolate Cook Book. It took me 30 minutes from start to finish and after baking these and arranging them on a wire rack I went to bring Sruti home from bus stop. She asked me whether her treat was ready, and when I said yes, she was very happy. After coming home, I made her close her eyes and placed a cookie on her hand, she saw it and made a happy dance as the cookie was loaded with her most favourite chocolate chips. Finally I was very happy as it ended well after so many hurdles. These cookies are very crispy and the chips add a nice crunch to them. It is very easy to put them together. Switch on the oven and start preparing the dough. By the time the oven is preheated, you will have the cookies shaped, bake for 10-12 minutes and your delicious cookies are ready…
Recipe Source: Tarla Dalal
Makes 12 Cookies
Ingredients:
Butter-5 tbs
Powdered Sugar-6 tbs
Milk-1 tbs
Vanilla Essence-1/2 tsp
Flour/ Maida-1 cup
Baking Powder-1 tsp
Baking Soda-1/2 tsp
Chocolate Chips-6 tbs
Procedure:
1. Preheat oven to 175C.
2. In a bowl mix together flour, baking powder and baking soda.
3. In another bowl, whisk together butter and sugar.
4. When creamy add milk and essence. Beat until incorporated.
5. Add the chocolate chips and flour mixture and knead to a soft dough.
6. Divide into 12 equal portions.
7. Roll each into a ball and slightly flatten it.
8. Arrange on a greased baking tray spacing them 2″ apart.
9. Bake for 10-12 minutes until nicely browned.
10. Remove from oven and allow it to sit for 10 minutes.
11. Transfer them to a wire rack and allow them to cool completely.
12. Store in an air tight jar.
They turned out awesome..
The texture was very nice. Need a bite????
very nice and thank you for the recipe..
Sruti is very sweet it seems.So for her sweet chocolate cookies.Cookies looks really crunchy …
Very nicely baked cookies..
Cookies looks perfectly baked and crunchy
I tried them today!they were purely heavenly!!!
Hi Gayathri tried making these today , in fact the cookies are in the oven and they are getting burnt. The chocolate chips are oozing out and getting burnt. Can u pleaseee tell me wht cd be the reason? I followed the recipe word by word. I have a LG convection. I baked it at 180 convection mode. Kept fr 12 mins but thy strtd burning. Pleaseee help me. Which mode of oven do we need to bake them?
Hi Snigdha, I think the burning may be due to high temperature. Is your’s MW with convection? If the heat is generated by circulating hot air, then you need to less 20C from the original recipe. That is you need to set it at 160C. And also if you are using black tray, lessen 10 more degrees. Ten the cookies will be good. Hope this helps..
Thanks so much for the reply Gayathri. Yes my MV is with convection and I baked them in convection mode at 180c. I baked on a normal baking tray. I do not see an option in my MV to reduce the temp than 180 c whn in convection mode.
Hi, I am planning to try this recipe with 4tbsp sugar instead of (6tbsp).I need a clarification mam..will it work if I reduce the sugar.Please answer.
Yes, it would work. Go ahead..
Hello mam, Can we try this with atta/wheat flour instead of maida? would it be as crunchy then?
Yes, you can use atta.
Hi Gayathri,
I tried the recipe today, this is the first times I am making cookies, the taste was good, but it turned out a little hard. Can u plz tell me why it happened………should the dough be slightly wet???
Over baking makes cookies hard. Remove them little before.
Im going to try out this recipe today. Wanted to ask you can we add cooking chocolate or unsweetened cocoa powder to the batter to make it a little more chocolatey? If yes, in what proportion?
You can use cocoa powder. Substitute 2 tbs of flour with cocoa powder and proceed as per the recipe.
Substitute for butter
Butter would give the best flavour, but you can go for ghee.
One cup of maida in grams please
130 gm