Sunday, January 17, 2010

Indianized Chocolate Mexican Wedding Cookies For Global Kadai

Cilantro's Global Kadai is a new food blogging event to show us the global cuisines as Indianized version..Whenever i wanted to prepare some International dishes, sometimes i try to modify them according to my taste buds by adding some indian spices or ingredients to enjoy those indianized international dishes...When Cilantro announced her new blog event, i was really happy to try out her january's month challenge where she choosed chocolate mexican wedding cookies, immediately my tiny mind went on searching to turn out the traditional chocolate mexican wedding cookies as indian version..I choosed cashews instead of pecans, instead of cinnamon powder i used cardamom powder & cloves powder,else i followed the original recipe went for...


1cup Butter (room temperature)
1/2cup Confectioner's Sugar
1+3/4cup All purpose flour
1cup Cashew powder (i grounded the whole cashews as powder)
1/2cup Chocolate pieces (grated)
1/2tsp Cardamom powder
1/4tsp Cloves powder
1tbsp Vanilla extract
1pinch Salt
1/2cup Confectioner's sugar

In a large bowl, beat together the butter and sugar until they turns soft and fluffy, add the vanilla extract..in an another bowl, combine the all purpose flour, cashew powder, grated chocolate pieces, cardamom powder,salt & cloves powder and mix well..add the creamed mixture to the dry ingredients and turn everything as dough, wrap the dough in plastic wrap and chill the dough for an hour atleast..

Preheat the oven to 325F, shape the dough into 1-inch balls, place those shaped balls over a baking sheet and bake for 15 to 18minutes until the cookies are firm..cool for a minute on the baking sheet, then transfer to a wire rack..While the cookies are still warm, sift the confectioner's sugar over cookies or roll them until the cookies get well coated with confectioner's sugar..

26 comments:

Pari Vasisht said... Reply To This Comment

the cookies look awesome dear.

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

Chocolate Cookies looks delicious and inviting..... ingredients are simple and reachable..
great entry...

Srikitchen said... Reply To This Comment

wow! its looking yum n mouth watering! send me a few!

Hayley said... Reply To This Comment

cookies looks delicious and colourful..good one!!

cheers

Cilantro said... Reply To This Comment

Thank you for participating in GLOBAL KADAI with a wonderful entry. Love the combination of cashews and cardamom. I shall update you when I post the roundup.

simplyfood said... Reply To This Comment

These cookies look absolutely delicious.

Sumi said... Reply To This Comment

Looks wonderful Priya...The cardamom definitly gives it an Indian flavour.

Siddhi Shirsat said... Reply To This Comment

hey nice cookies priya...u have modified thm in a superb way...nice idea

Vrinda said... Reply To This Comment

Cute cookies Priya...Its in my 'to do list' from a very long time,yumm

Rachana said... Reply To This Comment

You have given a great indian touch to the cookies:)
looks great.

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

Looks fantastic.

ruchikacooks said... Reply To This Comment

Looks so good priya..And they are eggless too..But it looks so fluffed up..

Gita Jaishankar said... Reply To This Comment

Very interesting and delicious cookies Priya.

Priya dharshini said... Reply To This Comment

priya aawwww...these cookies r inviting me...

chef and her kitchen said... Reply To This Comment

Those cookies look very delicious dear..

vidhas said... Reply To This Comment

Lovley cookies Priya, inviting Pictures.

Tina said... Reply To This Comment

Perfect and tempting cookies.....

Rekha shoban said... Reply To This Comment

wow!!cookies looks perfect!!yum yum!!

Sushma Mallya said... Reply To This Comment

cookies looks so cute and beautiful....

kamalabhoopathy said... Reply To This Comment

i liked the simple version so nice and perfect cookies.

Ms.Chitchat said... Reply To This Comment

Indian version cookies, wow that is cool. Pic looks great!!!!!!!

Chitcaht

Nandinis food said... Reply To This Comment

Woo! Indian cookies! It's freaktastic! I want a few for snack time right now!

Shri said... Reply To This Comment

Look very pretty,Priya!

Valarmathi Sanjeev said... Reply To This Comment

Lovely cookies, looks pretty and mouthwatering.

Swathi said... Reply To This Comment

priya,
Mexican wedding cookies looks beautiful

Cooking Foodie said... Reply To This Comment

These look beautiful and looking at the recipe - will be yum. I will be making a batch soon!