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Easy Eggless Choco-Vanilla Cookies

"If I hear "I'm hungry" one more time, I'm going to check myself into a nearby hotel and switch off my mobile phone!" That's me telling my four year old, who tells me he's hungry every 15 minutes and the minute I rustle up something, he conveniently forgets about his hunger and runs off to rebuild
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Ingredients
  

  • 4 tbsps unsalted butter soft (if salted, reduce the salt by a pinch) heaped
  • sugar sea salt (1/2 cup) + (1/2 tsp) - pulsed in mixer for few seconds
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla extract pure or powder
  • 1/2 cup all purpose flour (maida)
  • 1/2 cup whole wheat flour (atta)
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tbsp cocoa powder
  • A few tsp water cold
  • 1 to 2 tsps milk cold

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven at 180 C.
  • Line a big baking tray with tin foil or parchment.
  • In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugar-salt mix with a spoon for 2 minutes, adding in the vanilla extract, until well combined.
  • Sift the flours and baking powder together on a sheet of paper or mix it with a fork in a bowl and add it to the creamed mix.
  • Mix well until it forms a dough, adding 1-2 tsp of cold water or milk to bind, if required.
  • Divide roughly in half. Keep one half aside. To the other half, add the cocoa powder, a few drops of cold milk and knead gently to make a smooth but stiff dough (or you cant slice them).
  • Now you'll have two rounds of dough, one white and one brown.
  • Divide each into two logs, to get two white logs and two brown logs.
  • Join one white log and one choco log and roll into a log on a clean smooth surface. It's not necessary, that the white and brown parts are exactly half and half, don't stress out over this-just make sure each log as some white and some brown.
  • At this stage you could refrigerate for 15 mins or so and then slice into 1.5 cm thick slices or go ahead without chilling.
  • Place each slice on the baking tray leaving some space between each cookie.
  • Bake at 180C for 10-12 minutes, until the white parts start turning golden. At this point they will still be very soft, so don't overbake. They will crisp up as they cool.
  • For chewy cookies, remove them a little earlier.

Notes

You can bake as many as you want at a time and freeze the remaining logs / slices to bake as and when required. You dont need to thaw the dough. Slice frozen dough and bake as it is in a preheated oven-adding 1-2 minutes extra for fresh cookies on demand :)
What people who tried this have to say!
Cookie making debut. Made choco-vanilla cookies for the wife and kids. instagram.com/p/ZdS0Gnpeog/
— Obstetrix (@ScissorTongue) May 18, 2013
@saffrontrail wow luks super.. hey i made the kung fu panda cookies today.. turned out well :) thks for making my kid happy too :)
— sowmya (@vishalsowmya) May 17, 2013
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