Christmas Lights Eggless Sugar Cookies

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Recipe:

    Cuisine: Indian
    Category: Baking
    Preparation Time: 10 minutes
    Baking Time: 15 minutes 

    Rest Time: ~2 hours
    Serving Size: 30 cookies
    Author: Bhumika Joshi

Ingredients:

• 250 grams All purpose flour (2 Cups)
• 175 grams room temperature unsalted Butter
• 100 grams Powdered sugar (varies according to taste)
• 4 tbsp Cornstarch
• 1 tsp Vanilla essence
• 1/2 tsp salt (skip if using salted butter) 
• 1 Cup White Chocolate finely chopped
• 1/2 Cup dark chocolate chips
• Colorful Sprinkles  

Method:

• Beat the butter and sugar using a hand blender/whisk till it turns pale and creamy.
• Add the vanilla essence
• Place a sieve over the butter sugar mixture bowl.
• Add the dry ingredients(flour, corn starch and salt) to the butter sugar mixture.
• Combine the dough using a spatula and then use hands. Do not knead just bring the mixture together to form a dough.
• Adjust the the consistency of the the dough by adding more flour or milk (starting with 1/2 tsp of milk at a time).
• The dough should not stick to your hands and neither should it be crumbly.
• Divide the dough into 2 parts.
• Now take each dough one by one and put it between two parchment papers and roll it using a rolling pin into 5 mm thickness.
• Place the rolled dough as it is in the refrigerator for at-least half hour.
• Take the  dough out of the refrigerator and cut into circles and Christmas tree shape using  cookie cutters 
• Place the cookies in the refrigerator for another half hour.
• After that bake them in a preheated oven at 170C for 15 minutes or until the sides start turning golden brown.
• Let the cookies cool down on a wire rack.
• Take white chocolate and  chop finely. 
• Melt in the microwave in 30 second interval or using the double boiler method.
• Once the cookies are  cool, dip one by one in the melted white  chocolate and set them aside for the chocolate to harden.
• Once the white  chocolate hardens melt the dark chocolate in the microwave in 30 seconds interval or using double boiler method.
• Fill it in piping bag or any zip lock bag.
• Now make strings for Christmas lights on the cookies.( refer video on YouTube)
• Stick the colorful  sprinkles on the chocolate strings and let the chocolate harden.
• Serve the colorful Christmas lights Cookies and enjoy the festive time with family and friends.

If you make this recipe I would love to know your feedback and please do not forget to tag me @bhumikascookbook

Happy Baking!