Eggless Fig Newtons

For the month of January, Sharanya the host of Home bakers challenge for this month, gave us 6 bakes to choose from.The theme was "American Food Holidays" for the month of January. She suggested 6 interesting baked goodies.I chose Fig Newtons.Thanks to Sharanya for suggesting this yummy recipe I and my family loved it.

“Fig Newtons” but made with fresh (instead of dried) figs. These are very tasty. Fig Newtons features a flavorful homemade fig preserve inside a buttery, orange-scented cookie. They’re kind of outrageous. The dough for these cookies is very good. When they first come out of the oven, they’re a bit crispy, but the next day amazingly they were still as moist and irresistible as the first day I had baked them.

  For the Filling: 

About 1 cup FreshFig Jam,

Ingredients :

All-purpose flour-11/2 cup

Unsalted butter -1/2 cup/ 1 stick

Granulated sugar -1/2 cup

Vanilla extract-1tsp

Baking powder-1tsp

Orange juice-2tbsp

Orange zest-1 tsp

Salt- ¼ tsp

 

Method:

1.Combine flour, baking powder and salt together and set aside. Cream butter and sugar in a mixing bowl.

2.Add vanilla, orange juice , orange zest and combined dry ingredients to bowl and mix until dough forms.

3.When you’re finished, you should have a soft dough similar to a sugar cookie dough. Wrap it tightly in plastic wrap and refrigerate it until it’s firm enough to roll, for about two hours.

4.Take your chilled dough from the refrigerator and dust a work surface and rolling pin with flour. The dough will get sticky as it warms up, so it’s best to do this quickly and avoid adding any more flour than necessary.

 

5.Roll dough between two pieces of parchment paper into two 12 x 4 inch rectangles.

6.Spread the fig mixture on one half of each rectangle - spreading up the 12-inch side and leaving a 1/4-1/2 inch border.

7.Fold the dough over on top of itself and gently press the dough together at the edges. Cut each log in half and transfer onto a greased baking sheet.

8.Bake the cookies in the 200 degree oven for 12-15 minutes, until they’re puffed and golden brown around the edges.

9.Slice cookie- into several 1"  long sized segments and cool.Enjoy!

 

Snowmen Butter Cookies

As December is the month of Christmas, This month's Home Baker's Challenge was hosted by Priya of Cook Like Priya she had suggested three cookies recipes, two cakes and two bread recipes. We were to choose any of the given recipes. Snowmen.  Who doesn’t love to build/bake a snowman?  These are soooo adorable cookies....So I loved to Bake this snow man cookies. Snowmen are always so cute with their carrot noses, scarfs and top hats. These snowmen are simple and fun to make and the dough is easy to shape. I loved the look of this snow men cookie.These cookies are  easy to make very Crisp, fragile, and buttery tasting and adorable...

Okay, on to my super cute snowmen cookies…

Ingredients

All-purpose flour- 21/4 cup

Butter, softened- 1 cup

Sugar-1/2 cup

Vanilla extract-1 tsp

Milk- 1 tbsp

Food coloring- Red & Green Or to your choice

Miniature chocolate chips

 

Method:

1.In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add milk and vanilla. Gradually add flour and mix well.

2.Place 1/2 cup of dough in each of two bowls, reserving balance in separate bowl. Add red food coloring to one bowl and mix thoroughly.Small orange dough for nose.

3.Add green food coloring to one bowl and mix thoroughly. Shape the uncolored dough into twelve 1-inch balls and twelve 1 1/2-inch balls.

4.For snowmen, shape white dough into twelve 1-inch balls and twelve 1 1/2-inch balls. Place one smaller ball above one larger ball to form the snowman body and head.

5.For each snowman, then form the hat and the scarf.

 

6.Make hats with coloured dough.Shape red dough into 12  ball For hat, roll 1-inch ball and a flat disk for brim. Place on head. Place triangles above heads for hats; attach in white balls for tassels.

7.For scarf, shape 1/4 teaspoon of each color of dough into a 3 inch rope and Make two small ropes one with red and one with green, twist them together and twist together. Place scarf around snowman's neck.

 

8.Shape orange dough into noses and Add chocolate chip eyes and buttons.

9.Bake at 180 degree for 10 to 13minutes or until set. Cool for 2 minutes before carefully removing to wire racks. Store in an air tight container.

Eggless Oats Chocolate Biscotti

I have already Posted EgglessCrisp Almond Pistachio Biscotti. I prepared this for Home Bakers challenge. This month Priya Suresh is hosting the event and she has selected Biscotti varieties as a challenge. Though she had suggested both spicy and sweet version; I preferred to bake the Oats Chocolate Biscotti with Oats which came out so crunchy and delicious. In this biscotti I didn’t add coco powder & salt.

Ingredients:

Maida-1 1/2 cups

Oats-1/2 cup

Baking Powder-1 tsp

Baking Soda-1/2 tsp

Sugar-1/2 cup

Butter-1/2 cup

Melted chocolate-1/4 cup

Chocolate chips-2 tbsp

Vanilla-1 tsp

 

 Method:

1. Mix together flour, oats, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cocoa powder. (I dint add cocopowder & salt).

2. Meanwhile whisk together the butter, sugar until Fluffy . Then Add in the melted chocolate,vanilla extract and give a quick stir.

3. Now slowly add in the dry ingredients, chocolate chips and knead as a soft dough, if its hard to knead just sprinkle few drops of milk, if its sticky, add in few flour

4. Divide the dough into two portions. Roll each portion into a log and place it on a greased baking sheet.

5. Preheat the oven to 180degree Bake the log for 20-25minutes. Cool it for 10minures.

6. With a sharp knife, slice it diagonally as 1inch pieces or roughly to get around 15-20pieces from the log.

7. Bake it again for 5 minutes. Flip the biscottis and bake again for another 5 minutes.

8. Let them cool completely. Conserve it in a air tightened box.