Red heart Cookies
Red heart cookies
Pin Recipe
Ingredients
- 1/2 small beetroot
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 tsp vanilla essense
- 1/2 cup wheat flour
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 tbsp milkmaid - or more if required
- 1/2 cup dessicated unsweetened coconut flakes
Instructions
- Boil chopped beetroot with little water until it is cooked. Grind to a smooth paste and extract the thick pulp.
- Cream Butter and sugar until light and fluffy
- Add in Vanilla essence and Beetroot pulp and beat again until combined.
- Sieve the wheat flour and salt and keep it ready.
- Fold in the flour little at a time and make it to a breadcrumb texture.
- Add milkmaid and fold again. Combine with your hands to a smooth soft dough.
- Wrap it in a sheet and Refrigerate for an hour.
- Preheat oven to 180 deg c.
- Take the dough and spread it out to thin layer.
- Keep the desiccated coconut flakes in a plate ready.
- cut out heart shapes or any other shapes and coat it with desiccated coconut on both the sides.
- Line them in a parchment paper in baking tray.
- Bake at 180 deg c for 15 min. depending upon thickness time will vary between 15-18. Check the bottom of cookies after 15 min if it is slightly brown. If so, stop baking.