Butter Cookies

So it was 12.12.12 and I was wondering the whole time how do I make this day special and memorable.
Suddenly a wild thought came to my mind about COOKIES. The 'terms and conditions' in my mind were not about the flavour or shape or colour. All I knew and wanted was that anyone who grabs a bite should pleasantly get lost in the cookie and "Oh wow.." should be the words he/she utters. Naturally, it has to be something like 'heaven in mouth'.
So I got this recipe from a website which I modified according to my preferences and the outcome was delightful. It truly was 'Heaven in my mouth'.

Here goes the recipe.

Ingredients:

100 gm (salted) Butter
The reason I have used parentheses is that they say use 'Unsalted' butter. But then also mention about adding salt. So instead, I used Salted butter i.e. our regular Amul Butter. 100gm is one entire small packet of Amul Butter. Remember the butter should be hard i.e. cold and not soft or melted. So put you butter in freezer for like 20min before using.
1 cup cornflour
1 cup icing sugar
1.5 cups All Purpose Flour(APF)
4 tbsp icing/caster sugar for coating

Well, the website recipe also mentioned about adding vanilla essence. But I did not use any. You can go for any flavour of your chocie though.

Preparation:

1. Mix butter and icing sugar together using a blender or your pretty long fingers (they do add to the taste) until it forms a nice creamy mixture.
2. Add cornflour and incorporate it into the creamy mixture properly.
3. Finally add APF. You can add half the APF first and mix it well and then go for the remaining half. Knead a soft dough out of this mixture.
4. Place it on a cling foil and loosely wrap the plastic around it. Then roll it into a cylindrical shaped dough with a diameter of about 3 inches or depending on how large you want your cookies to be.
5. Place this roll in fridge for about an hour so that it sets well and the butter binds up all the ingredients within.
6. Remove from the fridge after an hour and cut half inch thick discs of this roll.
7. Preheat the oven at 210^o C.
8. Place each disc on icing/caster sugar that we have taken for coating. Coat both the sides of cookie-discs with sugar. Dust off extra sugar, if any.
9. Place a cookie sheet on baking tray and place the cookies 1 inch apart on the cookie sheet.
10. Bake at 210 ^oC for about 10min.
11. Do not touch the cookies once they are out of the oven since they are HOT. Really HOT. Do not get in direct contact with them how much ever tempting that entire scenario be! Place the cookies under fan so that they cool down.
12. Once they cool down, munch on them or serve with coffee or milkshake. Enjoy. Cheers!

Tips:

• You can use decorative stamps to put an impression on you cookie-discs so that they bear that  impression even after they are baked. Here is an image for representation purpose only.           

             pciture courtesy: velvetbrown.co.uk                                         picture courtesy: kaboodle.com 

• You may also use decorative cutters if you are bored of same old round cookies. Again an image for representation purpose only.

     

                                             picture courtesy: thepartyworks.com                                    picture courtesy: gadgetsin.com