Bakery Style Salt Cookies

Salt cookies aka salt biscuits are quite popular cookies available in most of the bakeries in India.The cookies are mouth melting and perfect with a cup of tea or coffee.

I used to get these cookies from local Indian bakery but wanted to try since long.I couldn't get a proper recipe for this particular cookie.Finally I saw a YouTube video and the measurements were not clear.Then I tried my own measurements with the ingredients mentioned.After couple of trials I got a perfect mouth melting cookie.Try these yummy cookies and enjoy the holidays.

                                                                    

                                                            
                                                     Bakery Style Salt Cookies

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   Basic Information

   Preparation time ~ 15 minutes
   Chilling time ~ 10-12 minutes
   Baking time ~ 15-18 minutes

   Makes ~ 14-16 cookies

    

  Ingredients

  

Ingredient	Quantity
All purpose flour/maida	1 cup+2 tbs
Corn starch	2 tbs
Custard powder	1 tbs
Milk powder	2 tbs
Salt	3/4 tsp
Baking powder	a pinch
Powdered Sugar/sakkarai	1.5 tbs
Butter/vennai	1/2 cup or 1 stick
Milk	1 tbs(if needed)

   Method 

• Mix in all purpose flour,custard power,corn starch,milk powder,baking powder and salt in a bowl and keep it aside.

• In a bowl take the butter and powdered sugar.Cream it well,to this add the all purpose flour mixture,mix it well.

• If the dough is too crumbly then add some milk and knead it to a smooth dough.Now divide the dough into 2 equal parts and roll it on a parchment paper with a rolling pin to 1/4 inch thickness.Cut the rolled dough into desired shape with cookie cutter. Arrange the cut dough on a lined baking tray.Now with a fork gently prick on the surface of the cut dough to form some patterns. 

• Refrigerate the tray for 10-12 minutes.Now preheat the oven at 350 F and bake it for 15-18 minutes or till the edges turned brown.Remove it and cool it on a cooling rack.

• Store it in an air tight container after its completely cool down.

• The cookies will be crispy once its completely cool down.Do not bake it more than 18 minutes.
• Instead of icing sugar,regular sugar can be powdered and used.
• The butter should be in room temperature.
• If salted butter is used add around 1/4 tsp of salt.

Enjoy.......................

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