Nankhatai (With & Without Oven)

Hello friends......hope you all are doing fine and staying at home for the single cause....Yes, that's Corona Virus (COVID-19). We all have to stay together and fight this pandemic and most importantly STAY AT HOME.

It's been 16 days we all are at home and following the lockdown guidelines. We all are enjoying happy times with our family. But, sometimes it's very boring and tedious to stay at home and do everyday chores. That is where we need to boost up ourselves and engage ourselves in doing things we love to do but due to the lack of time, it has taken a side stand.

Lately, I have developed a new interest and i.e doing baking with my family. Yes, we three of us try to bake cakes and cookies at least once a week and trust me it's very relaxing. This time we baked Cardamom Flavored Cookies or Nankhatais. I have already shared the recipe of Nankhatais a few years back but I have baked those cookies in the oven. This time I'll show you both the methods with and without oven.

Nankhatais are eggless cardamom flavored cookies. These shortbread styles cookies are crunchy & crumbly with a sensational aroma of cardamom. 

These cookies are very simple to make and require very few ingredients which we always have at our home. So, whenever you crave some homemade cookies try them out. I can assure once you make and store it you can't keep yourself away from these goodies.

So, without getting frustrated amid the lockdown and doing panic shopping try to utilize this time in doing something creative and keep yourself engaged. I'm sure we will walk through this crisis. AMEN!!

Palmiers.......Cute Little Hearts Cookies

Palmiers is a French Pastry which is also known as Elephant Ears or Angel Wings because of its shape. It is extremely light, flaky, caramely and buttery. Each time I bake Palmiers, I just fell amazed that how effortless and painless its recipe is. It's a perfect snack to munch on when you want something to eat during those odd hours of the day. 

These cookies are made up of puff pastry which is a dough wrapped around butter so the butter gets completely enclosed within the dough which is then rolled and folded over to double the number of layers and then the whole process is repeated. The number of times you repeat this process the more flaky your pastry will become. But making puff pastry at home is a very time consuming process and needs a lot of elbow greasing. Thanks to the frozen puff pastry sheets available at the supermarkets these days.

Making Palmiers at home becomes super easy if we have frozen puff pastry sheets in our freezer. You just need to thaw them, roll them, sprinkle granulated sugar and bake them. Ta-dah you're done! I know it's very difficult to resist until they cool down. I myself can't stay away from them for long. 

So let's get started:

Nankhatai....Cardamom Flavored Eggless Cookies

Holiday Season is here.......I just love this time of the year when you can see decorations everywhere. Everything is in the festive mood. Everything becomes bright colored and sparkling. You can see decorations and fairy lights all around. Even if you don't celebrate this festive season its very hard not to get enticed from these lights and decorations.

A light breeze of cold air, foggy mornings, warmth of the woolen clothes, fragrance of hot coffee are the things which we can enjoy at this time of the year. 

Baking is my way of celebrating festive season. The aroma of freshly baked cookies and cakes embarks holidays. This time I was very eager to bake a very basic cardamom flavored cookie which is also known as "Nankhatai" in India.

These cookies are very simple to make and require very few ingredients which we always have at our home. So, whenever you crave for some homemade cookies try them out. I can assure once you make and store it you can't keep yourself away from these goodies.

Here's the recipe: