Cashew nuts cookies recipe | Kaju biscuits recipe
An egg free buttery rich biscuits flavoured with cashew nuts & fragrant with cardamoms, are the love of everyone and known by the name Cashew nuts cookies.
Ingredients
1 cup = 200 ml
- 1/4 cup Cashews 30 g/20 pieces
- 1/2 cup sugar 100 g - we have used bura sugar. You can use refined sugar after powering
- 1/2 tsp cardamom powder
- 1/4 cup butter 50 g/half stick
- 3/4 cup whole wheat flour 115 g
- 2 tbsp cashews roughly chopped
- Pinch of salt
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 2 tsp milk more or less
Instructions
PREPARATION OF INGREDIENTS
- Take 1/4 cup of cashews and grind them to a fine powder.
- Roughly chop few cashews making them 2 tbsp of chopped one.
MAKING OF COOKIES
- Add butter in a bowl.
- Whisk until it turns creamy. With electric beater, it will take 2 to 3 minutes and with hand whisk, it will take more time.
- Add sugar into a bowl.
- Whisk them again until both assembles together very well.
- Now add wheat flour, powdered cashews, chopped cashews, baking soda and salt. Skip the salt if the butter is already salted.
- With the help of your hand, start bringing everything together so that a dough can be formed. Remember, only bring the mixture together and don't knead it.
- If the mixture is not binding, add a very little milk at one time. We only need to add about 2 tsp of milk for making a dough.
- A normal dough is ready.
- Make small lemon size pieces of the dough. We could made 24 pieces.
- Now roll each piece into a ball by rolling them between your palms one by one.
- Arrange all the balls on a baking tray lined with greased butter paper or parchment paper. See, keep distance in each ball as they will spread a little on baking.
- Mark a design on the cookies using a fork.
- Place the tray in refrigerator for 30 minutes.
- After the said period, bake @160°C in a preheated oven in the middle rack with both the rods on for 25 to 30 minutes.
- Once done, take the tray out and let Cookies cool down completely.
- Cashew nuts cookies are ready.
- Enjoy.