Puppy Shaped Cookies

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Recipe:

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

    Rest Time: 1 hour
    Serving Size: 25-27 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)+ 2 tsp
• 4 tbsp Cornstarch
• 2 tbsp Milk+ 2 tbsp
• 1 tsp Vanilla essence
• 30 gms cocoa powder
• 1/2 tsp salt (skip if using salted butter)

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 in batches.
• Combine the dough using a spatula and then use hands. Do not knead just bring the mixture together to form a dough.
• Add milk as needed.
• 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:
• Take cocoa powder in a bowl and mix 1-2 tbsp milk in it to form a thick paste.
• Take one of the dough ball and add the cocoa paste.
• Combine gently to form the chocolate dough. Do not knead otherwise the cookies will spread while baking.
• Now take each dough one by one and put it between two parchment papers and roll it using a rolling pin into 4-5 mm thickness.
• Place the rolled dough as it is in the refrigerator for at-least half hour.
• Take the plain dough out of the refrigerator and cut into hearts using a heart shaped cookie cutter.
• Take the chocolate dough and cut in heart shape using a medium size cutter (ears of puppy)and cut some hearts using the small size cookie cutter (nose of puppy)
• Now, place a parchment on a baking tray.
• Take the plain dough heart and place it on the baking tray upside down.
• Now take the big chocolate heart and cut it into 2 parts (watch video for clarity) and place it on the sides of the plain dough heart as ears (watch video for clarity)press gently.
• Place the little heart as nose of the puppy.
• Take little chocolate dough and make balls for eyes of the puppy, press gently .
• Make all the other puppy cookies as mentioned above.
• 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 on a wire rack.

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

Happy Cooking!