Thursday 26 February 2015

Rainbow Cookies

A friend of mine had pistedvthis vdo from Eugenie Kitchen and asked me to try it. Had been waiting for a perfect day to try them. And it was really a miraclebthat my 1 1/2  year old boy slept for a longer time. So there i went in to the kitchen to make these. If in case u dont want to use egg, u can use ur regular butter cookie recipe. I had tried with that too.

Ingredients

  • Butter - 175gm
  • Powdered sugar - 155gm
  • Flour - 310gm
  • Egg yolk -3
  • Vanila eessence - 1tsp
  • salt - 1/4 tsp
  • Baking powder - 1/2 tsp
  • Food colours
  • Egg white 1 + 1 tsp water for egg wash.
Method
Sieve baking powder and flour.
Bewat butter and sugar. Add vanila essence, salt and egg yolk and beat well.
Fold in flour and mix. Gently kneed with palm. 
Cut into 3 portions. Wrap 1/3 with a foil and set aside.
cutvtge remaining 2/3 into 6 portion and color them. Wrap them and leave for 10 minutes.

Roll each color dough into rectangle trim the edges and refrigerate them to set.
stack the layers one over the other by brushing the egg wash between layers. 

Take the desired cookie cutter mark the width of the cookie cutter and slice the slab. Now use the cookie cutter to cut out the shape. Refrigerate them to set.


Now stack those cut out cookies one over the othe with egg wash inbetween and form a lig.
cover it with rolled out white dough. Smooth it by rolling it. And refrigerate to set.
Apply egg wash over the log. Roll it over the sugar sprinkles and slice to cookies. 

Preheat the oven at 200degree. Bake the cookies at 170 degree for 15min.