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Oatmeal Prune Cookies spiced with Chai Masala

Hello! The line "I'm finally back after a long break" seems to be my opening line for every post in the last few months. A new kitchen, a big oven, nurturing my own little vegetable patch and still I am looking for the inspiration to be blogging regularly. Last month, Aparna was in Bangalore and som

Ingredients
  

  • 3/4 cup oats
  • 1 cup all purpose flour + side in case required to bind dough a few tbsp
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • Pinch salt
  • 1 tsp Masala Chai ( Everest or any other brand)
  • 1 tsp coffee instant powder (optional)
  • 1/4 cup butter
  • 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 egg
  • 3 tbsps prunes raisins finely chopped or use
  • Handful walnuts finely chopped (optional)
  • 2 tbsps milk

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven at 180C.
  • In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugars until light and fluffy.
  • Add the vanilla extract and egg. Beat some more.
  • Run the oats for a few seconds in the small jar of your mixer until coarsely powdered.
  • Add the oats, flour, salt, baking powder and chai masala.
  • Stir well it all the dry ingredients are incorporated into wet ingredients. Add the nuts and prunes in the final stage of mixing.
  • Line a cookie sheet with grease proof paper.
  • Divide dough into 12-14 balls adding some of the reserved flour to the dough if too sticky and tough to handle.
  • Flatten using fingers dipped in milk and place on cookie sheet leaving adequate space in between cookies as they will expand while baking.
  • Bake for 10-12 minutes. Remove and cool on a wire rack. Store in airtight container once cooled.

Notes

I used a cookie sheet with moulds, so I pressed the dough balls into each of the shape-moulds to get pretty snowflake imprints on them
Thank you Preethi for this sweetest housewarming gift. Check out her food blog here
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