AMERICAN SNOWMAN COOKIES

                               

  American snowman cookies

                              These cookies are awesome and interesting to make.I enjoyed doing this and i like to thank Priya Ranjit of www.cooklikepriya.com from  HBC ( home-bakers-challenge)  for giving us these amazing recipes.

                           The dough mixture is very simple and easy,but creativity is needed to convert the dough into a snowman.The result is awesome,tasty cookies i have got.

Recipe Source & image courtesy - Tasteofhome.com

Ingredients:

Butter-1 cup,softened

powdered  sugar-1/2 cup+1 tbsp

 water-1 tsp   

 almond essence-1/4 tsp

 flour-21/2 cups

 baking powder-1 tsp

red and green colour 

coloured gimmies(coloured sugar balls)

Method:

              Preheat oven to 180 ͦ c      

           1.  In a bowl add butter beat well and add sugar pr beat till creamy and light.

         2. Add water,almond essence mix well and mix in flour to make a soft dough.

        3.Divide the dough in three quaters.Take one part of the dough and divide them into two              parts,add red colour to one part and green to another mix well till the dough gets coloured.Keep them in fridge for just 5-10 mins,take it out.

        4.Roll the dough into a ball and flatten them this is its body.

         5.Then take some dough and roll smaller ball than the first one and attach to the flattened roll as head.

       6.Take some dough from coloured one and roll out and make a hat for the snowman and fix it in its head.

    7.Now the time to make the scarf take small pieces from each dough roll like a long strip and twist them,attach them to his neck.

 8.Now give him eyes,mouth and buttons as you wish.Arrange them seperately in a bakingsheet carefully.

 Bake them for 15-20 mins cool them and remove from the sheet.

Note:

     Attach them close so that it can't be seperated after baking.

   Arrange the cookies with the help of a spatulaRemove from bakingsheet when they cool completely.

                                      Roll the balls small one and big one and flatten them

Attach the head and hat to the body

place them on the baking tray

                                               pierce the gimmies for eyes,mouth and buttons

Roll the coloured dough into a long strip

twist them like a scarf

Attach them on the snowman now he is complete.

                                               

                             

SLOVAK PASKA BREAD

                                        Slovak paska bread(eggless)

Yet an another challenge from gayathri's eggless baking group.This bread is an interesting one to make and I had fun doing this.My elder daughter helped me to make decorations over the bread and this smily has been made by her.

                    The peeps came out really well.I'm so happy with the results..........

Recipe Source: Eastern European Food

Ingredients:

Milk-1 cup

 sugar-1/4 cup

 butter-12 tbsps 

salt-11/2 tsp

 active dry yeast-11/2 tbsp 

sugar-1/2 tbsp 

warm water-1/2 cup

 curd-1/2 cup

 sugar 1/2 tbsp 

milk-2 tbsps (for milk wash)

 flour-4 1/2 cups 

Method:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

1.In a pan add milk,butter and 1/2 cup sugar heat in low heat and cool to lukewarm.

2.Heat warm water add 1 tbsp sugar and a pinch of salt in a bowl sprinkle dry yeast over it and keep it aside for 5 mins without disturbing them.

3.In a hand mixer attach hook attachment and add curd,milk mixture and half part of flour mix well add remaining part of the dough and blend well till the dough rolls until it doesn't stick to the hook.

4.place the dough in a greased pan and cover with clingfilm let it proof to double for 2 hrs.

5.sprinkle flour on the surface and knead the dough again till smooth.

6.Divide dough in 3 parts.place one part in a greased tin and leave it to rise for 45 mins.

7.Roll the 2nd part of the dough roll some  into long strip and fold into half and twist them.place on the dough in tin to make a rim,in remaining dough make decorations of your wish.let them to rise for 20 mins and bake them for 45 mins.

In the 3rd part of the dough take some dough and roll them like a sausage and make a knot in centre make the beak in one edge and slit into three parts on the another edge.Now it'll look like a bird and bake them for 25 mins.

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