Danish cookies

Ingredients
Ghee 8 ounces melted and chilled
Caster sugar 6 ounces
Flour 12 ounces
Egg 1
Vanilla essence 1 tsp
Method
Beat ghee with 6 ounces sugar, vanilla essence till light and creamy, add 1 egg, continue to beat for 1 minute, fold in the flour, mix slightly, fill biscuit maker with this mixture, pipe out biscuits on baking tray, bake on 180 degree for 12 minutes.

Nan khatai

Ingredients

Flour 12 ounces

Caster sugar 6 ounces

Ghee melted and chilled 6 ounces

Baking powder 2 tsp

Baking soda ½ tsp

Elachi powder 1 tsp

Egg yolk for brushing

Pistachio chopped 2 tbsp for topping

Method

Beat ghee and sugar together with elachi powder until light and fluffy, sieve together flour, baking powder and baking soda, now fold this into ghee mixture, knead well with your palms, leave it aside to rest for 15 minutes, make medium size ball, flatten, put them in a grease baking tray, brush with egg yolk, sprinkle chopped pistachio, bake on 190 degree for 15 minutes

Nan Khatai

  NAN KHATAI is an indian eggless cookie which is made from palin flour and clarified butter(Ghee).You can actually amaze yourself by baking these cookies.

7 Tbsp solid (not melted) ghee * treated

12 Tbsp (150gm) castor sugar

1 tsp Green cardomom powder

3 cups flour sifted

2 tsp baking powder

1/2 baking soda

Slivered almonds - as required

Pistachios chopped - as required

1 egg - seperated only need yolk discard the egg white.

Preheat oven to 185 degrees.

Place *treated frozen ghee and castor sugar in a mixer. With the k beater attachment, beat until white and fluffy. Mix in cardamom powder and mix well.

Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda together in seperate bowl and then add to ghee mix. Change to dough hook sttachment and allow to mix until dough comes together. Do not agg egg into dough. No water or other liquid in dough! Form dough into ball.

Roll dough into 1 Tbs size balls and place on oven tray. Press thumb into centre of ball and brush with egg yolk in indentation only.

Add nuts to centre (ontop of egg yolk only) and bake in oven for 12 minutes 185 degrees.

Allow to cool on tray them transfer to serving dish.

* to treat ghee. Place ghee... into pan and melt. Transfer melted ghee into a bowl and place in freezer. Once ghee is firm and white, transfer to mixer and use as per recipe.

** if you have no mixer, place frozen ghee and castor sugar in a bowl and use hand mixer to beat until white and fluffy. Transfer mix to a larger bowl, add sifted flour, baking soda & baking powder and knead well for 10 minutes using the heel (near wrist) of hand. This helps to mix ghee into flour.