Eggless Butter cookies with Chocolate topping

This is my first post on cookies and so I am starting with a basic butter cookie recipe. I have a food event this weekend where I am going to prepare several baked recipes. So I am starting with this simple delicacy 🙂

Ingredients

Whole wheat flour/maida – ¼ cup

Corn flour – 1/8 cup

Sugar – 1/8 cup

Vanilla essence – 1 tsp

Butter – 1 tbsp

Baking powder – ½ tsp

Milk – 3 tbsp (optional)

Chocolate spread

Chocolate flavored mix – 2 tbsp (I used bournvita, you may use dark chocolate/cocoa)

Butter – 1 tbsp

Milk – 2 tbsp

Sugar – 1 tbsp (Bournvita has some sugar)

Corn flour – 1 tbsp

Procedure:

1. To make chocolate spread, heat butter, milk, sugar and chocolate in a saucepan.
2. Add corn flour to this, let it thicken a bit and remove from heat. Make sure the chocolate doesn’t burn. Let it cool.
3. For the cookies, sift together the flours and baking powder.
4. In a separate bowl, beat the butter and sugar till it mixes well. Add the vanilla to this.
5. Into this add the flour mixture a spoon at a time and mix gently. If the dough is too dry, add some milk.
6. Prepare small balls out of the dough and flatten each ball slightly.
7. Place them on a greased baking tray and bake in a pre-heated oven at 160°C for about 20-25 mins until golden brown.
8. Remove from oven, let them cool.
9. Spread the chocolate topping and add a cranberry/cherry on each. Have them with coffee or tea.

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