Vanilla Horlicks Cookies

I am back.. Yes, I am cooking and experimenting like before but sharing it with all of you my lovely readers becoming a little less as I feel so lazy to type :D But now I have recharged myself and am going to post more frequently :)

Today’s recipe is Vanilla Horlicks Cookies.  The easiest cookies one could ever make.  You would be surprised to see that so little effort and easy peasy ingredients could do such a magic. I bought a small pack of vanilla horlicks to make my double decker choco vanilla horlicks burfi that I totally in love with.  I also tried some cakes with it (vanilla horlicks) and they too came out nice. I do not like vanilla horlicks with milk but love it in my bakes. It takes the baked goodies to another level. 

When I started making these cookies, I had no idea what I was going to add other than horlicks.  Whatever came to my mind I simply added and trust me I was clueless what was going to come out from the oven.  And when I took the first bite, it was simply divine.. so delicious and crunchy cookies were ready right in front of my eyes.  I kept them a bit healthy by adding wholewheat flour and oats flour. 
I liked these cookies so much and so did V and my baby. I think now I am going to get another pack of vanilla horlicks just to make these beauties. 

Making these cookies is just like 1-2-3.  Recipe is so easy to follow so I hope you won’t feel any kind of difficulty while making them. I baked my cookies till I find the top slightly brown. They would be so soft at first but let them completely cool down and they would become crunchy. 
Do not forget to go through the notes given at the end. Happy cooking :)

Makes-20 cookies

Temperature - 180 degree

Baking time – 18 minutes

Ingredients:

Horlicks (Vanilla Flavour)	1 cup
Oats flour	¼ cup
All purpose flour / Maida	¼ cup
Whole wheat flour / Atta	1 tbsp
Salted butter (softened)	½ cup
Caster sugar	¼ cup
Baking powder	½ tsp
Baking soda	1 big pinch
Tutty fruity (I used my homemade tutty fruity)	6 tbsp

My 1 cup measures 250 ml.

Method:

• In a wide bowl, mix together Horlicks, oats flour, all purpose flour, wheat flour, castor sugar, baking powder and baking soda. Add in softened butter and mix well with your fingers. Add in tutty fruitty and knead the mixture to a soft dough.
• Make three logs with the prepared dough and cover them with a cling film. Chill them for atleast 30 minutes.

• Meanwhile, take a baking tray and line it with aluminium foil. Grease the foil. Set aside.
• After 30 minutes, with a sharp knife cut the logs into round cookies. Arrange the cookies in prepared baking tray. Set aside.
• Preheat oven at 180 degree and bake the cookies for 18 minutes.
• Remove from oven and let them rest for 2 minutes. Shift to a wire rack and let them cool down completely.
• After cooling down cookies would become crunchy.
• Store them in an airtight container. 

Notes:

1. In place of castor sugar, you can use powdered sugar.
2. Instead of tutty fruity, you can add your choice of nuts or dried fruits.
3. If you find the dough a bit dry, you can add a tsp of milk.
4. Do not skip the chilling part, it would make the cutting easier.
5. You have to be very patient while cutting the cookies as they may get broken so do it very carefully. If it gets broken while cutting then don't worry, you can take the broken pieces in your hand and press them a little and your cookie is good to go. 
6. Do not over bake the cookies. Once they get slightly brown on the top, remove from the oven. 
7. Cool down the cookies completely before storing them.

Homemade Tutty Fruitty

Hi to all.  Today's recipe is very special and makes me nostalgic.  This is the one which you all must have had many times but never ever have thought of making it at home. Its none other than our very own Tutty Fruitty :)

During my childhood, I used to love everything studded with these colorful beauties :)  My favourite topping on my icecream used to be these tutty fruitty.  Even today I love them.

It was so funny that till the day I had tried it making by myself at home I had no idea as to what goes into making these sweeties and I was so surprised to know that the secret ingredient was the very humble PAPAYA.  I am sure many of you too came to know about it only after reading this post and the reason is so obvious i.e. in India its easily available in the market so no need of making it at home.  I have started making this coz here in Zambia its not available anywhere and I love to add it to my recipes.  So whenever I make something that calls for tutty fruitty I add my very own homemade tutty fruitty.  The best thing is that I have got a big papaya tree here in my own garden.. what a luck :D  Though I dont like papaya as fruit, I love tutty fruitty.

So my dear readers, here I am posting the detailed process of making tutty fruitty and its not so difficult though a bit time consuming.  It wont be so useful for those living in India but for others, like me, its a gem.. Do try and enjoy.

Happy Cooking :)

                        

Ingredients:

Raw papaya	1 medium size (2 cups chopped)
Sugar	2 ½ cup
Water (for sugar syrup)	2 cups
Vanilla essence	1 /4 tsp
Food color (I used Red and yellow)

 

Method

• Take papaya and wash it very well.  Cut it into two and remove the seeds. Peel it off and wash once again.  

• Chop the papaya into small pieces (size depends on your choice of tutty fruity size).  I have got 2 cups of chopped papaya. 

Blanch the papaya pieces - 

• Take a pan and fill it with some water (enough to cover the chopped papaya pieces) and let it boil.  Once it starts boiling, add chopped papaya pieces and let them boil for 5 minutes.  After 5 minutes, remove the pan from stove and leave the papaya pieces in the boiled water for another 5 minutes.  

• Remove the blanched papaya pieces from water to a colander to dry up.

• Put another pan on the stove and add 2 cups of water and 2 ½ cup of sugar in it.  Let the sugar completely dissolve.  Then add the blanched papaya and stir well.  Keep cooking the papaya pieces in the sugar syrup till the syrup gets one thread consistency.  Also check if the papaya pieces cooked well.  Remove the pan and keep aside.  Let it cool down a bit then add vanilla syrup and mix well.  Leave for 10 minutes. 
• Divide the cooked papaya pieces in three portions alongwith sugar syrup. Take one bowl and add few drops of yellow food color in it then add first portion of cooked papaya pieces and sugar syrup.  Mix well.  Set aside.  

• Take another bowl and add red food color in it and second portion of papaya sugar syrup mixture.  Mix well.  

• Leave the third part without adding any color.  This way we would get tricolor tutty frutty.  As I had only two colors I used this method to make three colors.  Cover all the three bowl with lid and keep aside for overnight. 

• After 10-12 hours, take a big plate and put a big sieve on it upside down.  Take out the sugar coated red colored papaya pieces from the bowl and put it on the sieve.  Spread it on the half part of the sieve.  

• On the another half part of the sieve, put the yellow colored papaya pieces and spread them carefully so that both the colored pieces do not get mixed up. 

• Put another sieve on the plate and repeat the process with the colorless papaya pieces. The excess sugar syrup would drain out on the plate through the sieve.  Leave the papaya pieces without covering in the air for 10-12 hours or till they become dry. 

• Tutty fruity is ready to be used. 

• Shift them to an airtight container and store in the fridge.