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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Horlicks cookies


Addictive sandy cookies. Beware of over indulging !

I used to consume Horlicks, lots of it, as a before/after  school drink and recess snack in the form of Horlicks tablets. And when deprived of Horlicks tablets, I would simply spoon the powder into my mouth to feed my addiction. My mum saw with horror the self indulgence and thereafter put me into cold turkey treatment. I did not see a single can of Horlicks in my home until many years later. 

Now that I am boss of my own household  ( actually hubby is boss of major issues , I'm boss of minor problems. Since nothing much happens at home, I'm mostly boss .. ), I am back with more creative ways to consume this beverage.  Good thing I chanced upon this recipe at this  blogger's archive , which is reliable and tested ) and happily reproduced it without the bells and whistles . Needless to say, down the food chain, I made many people happy and instant Horlicks fans !


Recipe from happyhomebaking.blogspot.com. Slight adaptation made by this baker.

Ingredients:
(makes about 50  cookies)

180g butter, soften at room temperature
80g Horlicks
210g cake flour
25g corn flour
25g milk powder
50  chocolate buttons

Method:
Pre-heat oven to 140deg C. Line baking tray with greased paper . Set aside.

Combine and sieve cake flour, corn flour and milk powder. Set aside.

Cream butter and Horlicks until mixture is just combined.

Add  dry ingredients . Mix to form dough. You may need to manually knead to form a dough ball.

Using a 1/2 Tsp measuring spoon as mould, fill it with dough and push a chocolate button into the dough. Seal and knock out the cookie. It yields about 10g of dough excluding the chocolate button. ( needless to say, my choc buttons were generous in size )

Bake at 140 deg C for about 25 minutes. The cookie should be slightly tanned but not brown.

Cool cookies thoroughly  before storing.

9 comments:

  1. love Horlick!! And this cookies are bite size!!! Sure is finishing fast!! Yummy!! (;

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  2. Horlicks are heaty but I love to eat horlicks sweet and I would say this Horlicks cookies are awesome to eat.

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  3. Oh yeah, I have a can of hardened Horlicks, which is quite wasteful to discard.
    Maybe I should mill it with the flour to make this.

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  4. I love horlicks! Going to have to give this one a try!!

    xx PC

    http://pony-chops.blogspot.co.uk/

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  5. this is one good cookies recipe to try
    thks :)

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  6. i love horlicks too!! gonna try this soon!

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    1. Hi Nyukshan,
      You do not need additional sugar for this recipe. Horlicks is quite sweet and with the added chocolate, the sweetness is just right. Happy baking!

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