Karachi Biscuits

Karachi Biscuits at home…  Is that even possible? This was my first thought when I read about it long time back. When I tried it for the first time, I was pleasantly surprised and excited to see that we can make it easily at home. Try it and see…

Ingredients:

• All purpose flour 100 gm
• Custard powder/Cornflour 2 tbsp
• Salt a pinch
• Sugar 1/4 cup plus 1 tbsp
• Butter 60-70 gm
• Baking powder 1/4 tsp
• Tooti frooti 1/4 cup
• Chopped dry fruits 1 tbsp
• Pine apple essence 1/2 tsp
• Milk 1 tbsp (if required)

Method:

• Powder the sugar in a mixer till it is fine.
• Cream the soft butter and sugar till light and fluffy. Add the essence and mix well.
• Sieve the maida, custard powder, salt and baking powder 1-2 times.
• Add the dry ingredients to the butter-sugar mixture and knead gently.
• Add the tooti frooti and dry fruits and mix so that everything comes together. Add a tablespoon of milk if you feel the dough is too dry.
• Roll the dough into a log and wrap in a cling film and refrigerate of for atleast half an hour to one hour.
• Preheat your oven at 180 degree celsius for atleast 10 minutes.
• Take it out from the refrigerator and slice it into even pieces of approximately one fourth inch thickness.

• Place it on a baking tray lined with parchment paper and bake for 15-16 minutes or till the ends start turning a bit golden.
• As always remove from oven and let it remain in the tray for 3-4 minutes. Gently transfer them on to a wire rack. It will be very delicate, so handle with utmost care.
• Cool on a wire rack and store it in air tight containers.
• Enjoy it with a cup of warm/cold milk 🙂

Notes:

• Pineapple essence can be replaced with rose essence or pista essence.
• In case you don’t have custard powder, you can replace it with the same quantity of cornflour and add 1-2 drops of yellow colour.
• Try to slice the cookies evenly and of the same thickness. This will help in uniform baking.
• Use all ingredients at room temperature. Sugar quantity can be adjusted as per your taste.
• If you don’t like tooti-frooti, you can use raisins, cranberries, blueberries, blackberries, red cherries etc or some dried and candied fruits like guava, apple, pear etc.
• It will be quite soft when you take it out of the oven, but will harden up as it cools and become crunchy.