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Recipe:

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

    Rest Time: 1 hour
    Serving Size: 2-3 persons
    Author: Bhumika Joshi

Ingredients:

• 200 grams All purpose flour (approx 1 1/2 cup)
• 140 grams room temperature unsalted Butter
• 80 grams Powdered sugar(approx 1/2 cup) (varies according to taste)
• 4 tbsp Cornstarch
• 2 tbsp Milk
• 1 tsp Vanilla essence
• 20 grams Almond flour
• 1/4 tsp Almond essence(optional)
• 1/2 tsp salt (skip if using salted butter
• Gel food colours in green, orange, white and blue.

Method:

• Beat the butter using a hand blender/whisk till it turns pale and creamy.
• Now add sugar and mix it well.
• Add the vanilla essence, almond essence and milk to it and mix.
• In another bowl sieve the flour, cornstarch, salt (only if using unsalted butter) and almond flour to avoid any lumps.
• Add the dry ingredients to the butter sugar mixture in batches to combine well and 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 3 parts and pinch out little from each part for the blue of Ashok Chakra.
• Color 1st part with orange food color, 2nd with green and 3rd with little white color. (you can even leave the dough as it is)
• Now take each dough one by one and make a rectangle of same size of each dough.
• Put the green dough and place the white dough on it and the place the orange dough on top.
• Fold the rectangular log in a cling film and place on the refrigerator for 1 hour.

• Take the dough out and cut into 1/4 inch thickness.
• Place the cookies on baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
• Now take the blue dough and make little ball and press it in between your index finger and thumb.
• Place this blue circle in the center of the cookie on the white part like in the Indian flag.
• Now using a knife make marks on the blue circle to make it look like the Ashok Chakra.
• Bake all the cookies in a preheated Oven at 170 C for 15 minutes.
• Let the cookies cool down on a wire rack.

Handy Tips:

• If you feel the dough is sticky even after refrigeration add little flour and knead well.(adjust sugar accordingly)

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

Happy Cooking!