Chocolate Butter Cookies | Microwave Convection Oven Recipe

As the last one in the batch I made for my little relatives, this Chocolate Butter Cookies came out very well. While it was getting baked, it smelled so much like a delicious cake and tasted so much like that too. I was so trilled baking these as these tasted much like brownie yet was crispy. Finally this scored the best as Chinnu loved this.

I had planned on making a brownie for the event but couldn't make it. Yet I have been really satisfied with the dishes I was alble to squeeze in. Hope you guys enjoyed.

These cookies still look very gooey but when you allow it to cool it for a while, they turn out very crispy.

Get the dry flour in a bowl, add the melted butter and vanaspathi and knead to a soft dough

The dough will look soft and gooey to touch.

Press out on a sheet and use a cutter to cut out a shape as desired.

Chocolate Butter Cookies in Microwave Convection Oven.
Makes - 40 small ones

All purpose flour / Maida - 2 cups
Icing Sugar - 1 & 1/2 cups
Cocoa powder - 4 tsp
Vanaspati / Hydrogenated vegetable oil - 50 gms
Unsalted Butter - 1 cup
Vanilla essence few drops

Method to prepare:

In a bowl, shift the flour with icing sugar well. Add the vanilla essence and mix. Then add the cocoa powder, combine everything.

Melt the vanaspati, butter. Then slowly mix in the melted vanaspati to the dough. This needs to be done with small quantity and you need to keep rubbing it to get that crumble texture. Finally add the butter and continue kneading the dough.

Press the Convection mode in your Microwave, increase the temperature to 185 degree. The time duration for pre heat is taken care automatically by the mw oven.

Keep kneading in the dough and continue till you get a dough that is soft yet stays in shape. Make big balls, dust your palm and the board with flour, press out to 1 inch thick sheets. Using the cutter, press on the sheets.

Once all the cookies are shaped out, place them on the tray. Grease the tray  if required, else you can place as such as the biscuits will let out oil during the baking process.

Once you have placed all the biscuits on the tray and the timer on the pre heat goes out, place the tray inside the mw oven and bake for 15 minutes.

After 15 minutes, you can let it rest for few minutes inside the oven. Then remove and allow it to cool before storing it in an air tight container.

With 2 cups of flour, I got two batches of 40 small sized biscuits. Once the cookies are cooled a bit, transfer them to the wire rack and bake the second batch.

These are for my Kid's Delight ~ Chocolate Feast!  as I will be doing the round up in couple of days time. So if you still have some entries..do send them.

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Chocolate Biscuit | Chocolate Cookies | Microwave Convection Oven Recipe

Well if you ask me I won't really be able to tell the difference between a cookie and a biscuit. These are often interchanged in their usage, so I thought I would call this as both. This was another batch that I made yesterday along with the Chocolate Cookies. Instead of adding the chips to the dough or topping them, I wanted to mix in the cocoa powder and see how differently these taste.

Rolling them out was little hard, so you got to make them into big balls and press them down. Then using the cutters, press out the shapes. I tried freezing this batch but they froze very fast, so had to thaw them again and then pressed out as these shapes.

When the boys came back from school, they immediately wanted to know what was baking. The moment they saw these cooling on the table, they wanted it right away. In fact eating these, they could not eat their lunch properly. When I told them that we are taking these for their cousins they were so happy but also wanted to know if they be given these to enjoy. I know these are going to be made frequently from now on.

 To the plain dough that was made, I added 3 tsp of cocoa powder and mixed well.

 After mixing the cocoa to the plain dough, get the oven pre heated. Cut out in desired shapes.

Pre heat the oven and bake these biscuits at 180 degree C for `5 minutes. Once done, allow to cool before storing.

Chocolate Biscuits in Microwave Convection Oven.
Makes - 40 small ones

All purpose flour / Maida - 2 cups
Icing Sugar - 1 & 1/2 cups
Cocoa powder - 3 tsp
Vanaspati / Hydrogenated vegetable oil - 150 gms
Vanilla essence few drops

Method to prepare:

In a bowl, shift the flour with icing sugar well. Add the vanilla essence and mix. Then add the cocoa powder, combine everything.

Melt the vanaspati. Then slowly mix in the melted vanaspati to the dough This needs to be done with small quantity and you need to keep rubbing it to get that crumble texture.

Press the Convection mode in your Microwave, increase the temperature to 185 degree. The time duration for pre heat is taken care automatically by the mw oven.

Keep kneading in the dough and continue till you get a dough that is soft yet stays in shape. Make big balls, dust your palm and the board with flour, press out to 1 inch thick sheets. Using the cutter, press on the sheets.

Once all the cookies are shaped out, place them on the tray. Grease the tray  if required, else you can place as such as the biscuits will let out oil during the baking process.

Once you have placed all the biscuits on the tray and the timer on the pre heat goes out, place the tray inside the mw oven and bake for 15 minutes.

After 15 minutes, you can let it rest for few minutes inside the oven. Then remove and allow it to cool before storing it in an air tight container.

With 2 cups of flour, I got two batches of 40 small sized biscuits. Once the cookies are cooled a bit, transfer them to the wire rack and bake the second batch.

These were delicious and for a chocolate lover it was heavenly!

And another one for my Kid's Delight ~ Chocolate Feast!

Check out my Blogging Marathon buddies in action! Priya Suresh, Jay, Monika, PJ, Priya Vaasu, Azeema, Reva, Ayeesha, Veena & Soumya.

Biscuits with Chocolate Chip

I had the most wonderful day baking through the day, preparing for our trip to my hubby dear's hometown. He suggested I bake those cookies for our nephew and nieces. Since chocolate is the most favoured one, I decided to make the usual basic biscuit in chocolate and also with chocolate chips.

Plus making with vanaspathi, I also made it butter, which turned out more chewy but still excellent in taste. I made about 4 different batches of different flavoured cookies. I had bought some cookie cutters and other shapes. I wanted to try them on these. The smallest one looked very cute and I ended up using it for all the batches. Other ones were maple leaf, tree. Though after getting baked they lost their shape or rather didn't look like that.

I followed almost the same recipe as I did for these Basic Biscuits.

After rolling out the dough, press them down and using the cutter insert to get the shapes.

Pre heat the oven at 185 degree C. Meanwhile place the shaped cookies on the tray. Place the chocolate chips on the top, press them slightly inside else they will fall off after being baked.

Once you have placed evenly on the tray, bake it for 15 minutes at 185 C.

Allow it to cool completely before storing them in a box.

Bake them first for 10 mins, then check and continue baking for 4 -5 mins, allow to cool. Sometimes it gets baked by 13 minutes itself.

These are again for my Kid's Delight ~ Chocolate Feast!

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