Pumpkin Shaped Sugar Cookies - Eggless

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Recipe:

    Cuisine: International
    Category: Baking
    Preparation Time: 10 minutes
    Cook Time: 15 minutes 

    Rest Time: 1 hour
    Serving Size: 18 cookies
    Author: Bhumika Joshi

Ingredients:

• 250 grams All purpose flour (approx 1 3/4 cup)
• 180 grams room temperature unsalted Butter
• 100 grams Powdered sugar (varies according to taste)
• 4 tbsp Cornstarch
• 2 tbsp Milk
• 1 tsp Vanilla essence
• 1/2 tsp salt (skip if using salted butter)
• Few drops of (red + yellow) orange and green gel food color
• Melted semi sweet chocolate

Method:

• Beat the butter and sugar using a hand blender/whisk till they turns pale and creamy.
• Place a sieve over the butter sugar mixture bowl.
• Add the dry ingredients (flour, corn starch and salt) to the butter sugar mixture in batches.
• Add the vanilla essence.
• Combine the dough using 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 in the ratio of 80:20
• Color the big dough ball in orange color and the small one in green color.
• 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 using a round bottle lid cut the dough in circles.
• Now using index finger and thumb push the dough from top and bottom to shape it like pumpkin. (Watch video for clarity)
• Take the green dough and cut small rectangles.
• Place the green rectangles on the orange cookie to make the stem of pumpkin. (Watch video for clarity)
• Now using a knife make impressions  to make the cookie look like a pumpkin.
• Place the cookie in the refrigerator for another half hour.
• After that bake them in a preheated oven at 170C for 15 minutes.
• Let the cookies cool on a wire rack.
• Melt the semi sweet chocolate and fill in a piping bag.
• Pipe the shape of Jack-o-lantern.

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

Happy Cooking!