Eggless Snowball Cookies Recipe – Easy Christmas Recipes

Easy Snowball cookies recipe with step by step photos and  a video !

Christmas is the perfect time for me to attempt some interesting cakes and cookies recipes. Last year during this time, I posted few Christmas special recipes like Gingerbread man cookies, Tutti frutti cookies, eggless tutti frutti cake, shortbread cookies, Kulkul , eggless rose cookies and some more. This year, I wanted to start my Christmas recipes with this easy, melt in mouth, most special snowball cookies recipe. Its a very simple cookie that can be made with easily available ingredients. Snowball cookies is also called as Mexican wedding cakes/cookies, Russian tea cakes. 

With lots of butter and nuts ( Pecan or walnuts)these cookies comes out with a melt in mouth texture and crunchy taste. Pecan nuts is widely used for the recipe. But I had used a combination of nuts which you can find in the ingredients list.These snowball cookies can be made without nuts as well. I followed the recipe from Classy cakes and watched You tube video by Jenny can cook. Even though this is my first try, I am completely happy with the result. Raksha loved it a lot and took it for her school snack box today. 

Do try this easy Christmas special snowball cookies recipe for your kids and enjoy the vacation. Lets check out how to make eggless snowball cookies with step by step pictures and a video !

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Snowball Cookies Recipe - Easy Christmas recipes

Eggless snowball cookies recipe with step by step pictures and video

Cuisine: International

Category: Cookies

Serves: 14 nos

Prep time: 10 Minutes

Cook time: 15 Minutes

Total time: 25 Minutes

Chitra Ganapathy

INGREDIENTS

1 cup - 240 ml All purpose flour / maida - 1 cup Softened Unsalted butter - 1/2 cup Granulated sugar - 2.5 tbsp ( Powdered sugar can also be used) Vanilla essence - 1 tsp Salt - A small pinch Chopped Nuts - 1/2 cup ( Pecan nuts is preferable, I used combo of walnuts, cashews, hazelnut and melon seeds) Icing sugar or powdered sugar – 1/2 cup ( to coat the cookies) Cinnamon powder – 1/2 tsp ( optional)

METHOD

Chop the nuts finely and keep aside. In a wide bowl, mix the softened butter, sugar, salt and vanilla essence. Beat well for 5 minutes. The mixture will become creamy. Add maida, mix well. Add chopped nuts and mix well with your hands. Make a smooth , non-sticky dough. Dough should not be too wet and sticky. Some recipes call for refrigerating the dough for 30 minutes. But some recipes don’t say so. So I baked the cookies immediately using half of the dough. I wrapped the remaining dough in a cover and refrigerated it for 30 minutes.  Then made balls and baked it. To make balls, take the cookie dough ( If refrigerated, thaw it for 10 minutes and then use it) and scoop out a tbsp of dough. Make balls and arrange them in a butter greased or butter paper lined baking tray. Leave half inch gap between each cookies. These cookies don;t expand or flatten much as we have not used baking powder or soda. If your cookies flatten so much, then the quantity of butter is more. In that case, add more maida and sugar, proceed. Preheat the oven in convection mode at 180c and place the baking tray inside the oven.Bake at 180c for 10-12 minutes. Open the oven and touch one cookie,try to move it. If its too soft, immovable, sticky and doughy, bake for another 2 minutes else remove the baking tray and check the bottom of cookies.If its slightly golden in color, your cookies are done. These cookies would be very soft when hot. But it will continue to cook even after taking out from the oven.So do not over bake the cookies.Just 12 –14 minutes is sufficient. My cookies had some cracks on top. Do not touch the cookies till it becomes warm. Take 1/2 cup of icing sugar in a wide bowl. Once the cookies turn warm, dip the cookies in the icing sugar and give one coating. Arrange them in a tray and let the cookies cool down completely. Again dip the cookies in the icing sugar and give the second coating. If you wish, you can go for third coating as well. Keep the cookies in a tray and serve them. These cookies stays good for 2-3 days if done properly. Enjoy !

Note

Do not over bake the cookies. It will turn hard and sometimes burnt. I baked it approx. 13 minutes. The cookie dough I kept in the refrigerator baked quickly ( 2 minutes lesser) than the ones I baked without refrigeration. Do not add more sugar than the mentioned quantity because we are coating the cookies with icing sugar.It will become over sweetened. My cookies were mildy cracked.

Enjoy these delicious, melt in mouth cookies for your tea time!!

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Eggless Witch Finger Cookies Recipe-Halloween Recipes

Eggless Witch Finger Cookies with step by step. For the first time I am sharing a recipe for Halloween day. I have heard about Halloween day and the most popular Halloween Sugar cookies from my friends in US. So this year I wanted to try some interesting and scary recipe on this day. When I was browsing for it, I found this easy Halloween spooky witch finger cookies in Priya’s blog. Its very similar to butter cookies recipe. When I showed the witch finger cookies images to my daughter Raksha, she was very much excited and asked me to bake them immediately. She took part in all the activities like mixing the cookie dough, baking, shaping cookies until decoration with jam . Friends, Do engage your kids and try this easy Halloween butter cookies, share your feedback with me. Now lets see how to make this eggless spooky witch finger cookies for Halloween day !

Eggless Halloween Witch Finger Cookies Recipe

Eggless Halloween Witch Finger Cookies Recipe - Butter cookies recipe

Cuisine: Indian

Category: Cookies Recipes

Serves: 15 nos

Prep time: 40 Minutes

Cook time: 15 Minutes

Total time: 55 Minutes

Chitra Ganapathy

INGREDIENTS

1 cup - 250ml All purpose flour / maida - 1.25 cups Powdered sugar - 1/3 cup Softened butter - 1/2 cup Baking powder - 1/8 tsp Salt - a very small pinch Vanilla extract - 1/4 tsp Whole Almonds - few

METHOD

In a wide mixing bowl, combine butter, sugar and vanilla extract. Beat it well with a whisk until creamy, soft and fluffy. Sieve Maida/ all purpose flour and baking powder.Add this to the butter mixture and make a dough. If the dough is very crumbly and dry, add few tsp of butter or cooking oil. Do not use milk. Mix well and make a soft dough. Wrap the dough in a butter paper or cling wrap and refrigerate it for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes, take out the dough and let it come to room temperature.It would become soft. Now take a big gooseberry sized dough and make finger shapes by rolling it. Stud in blanched almond for nails. Draw lines using a knife. Grease a baking tray with butter & maida or line with a butter paper. Arrange the cookies in a baking tray. My daughter wanted to make witch hand with palm & fingers. So we shaped like a hand. Please refer picture for the idea. Preheat the oven in convection mode at 180 c. Place the cookies tray and bake the cookies for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes, check if the sides of cookies turn golden brown in sides & bottom. Remove the tray and let the cookies cool down completely.Do not try to remove the cookies, it may break. Cookies would be soft when hot. It turns super crispy & hard after cooled down.So be patient till it cools down. Mix some hot water with the jam and dilute it. Apply them on the cookies and give a blood like appearance. Enjoy these scary cookies !

Note

You can use with wheat flour or maida & wheat flour in 1:1 ratio. Do not use milk for making dough. Cookies may turn chewy & its shelf life would be reduced. This cookies stayed good for a week when stored in an air tight box.

Try this easy, tasty, scary witch finger cookies and enjoy with your kids !!

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Eggless French Toast Recipe – Bread Toast Without Egg

Eggless French toast recipe - How to make eggless French toast without eggs. Learn with step by step photos and a video !

French toast is a very easy, popular and quick breakfast recipe. Its an ideal recipe for kids breakfast & lunch box as well. Basic plain French toast batter has eggs in it. But nowadays many Indian people are making it without eggs by using custard powder or corn starch. My friend Shalini prepares this sweet toast quite often as evening snacks for her kids.She shared her eggless recipe with me and was telling me to make this post in my blog. As Raksha is not a big fan of sweetened bread toast, I was hesitating to try it. But her Father is just the opposite. He has a big sweet tooth and I know he will like this toast very much. So once I tried it for Sendhil’s breakfast with some leftover bread after making Cheese toast for Raksha. He loved it very much. Nowadays this eggless French toast is appearing often in my kitchen.You can serve this with freshly chopped fruits like strawberries, banana or by smearing with buttter, drizzling with honey or chocolate sauce and enjoy it.Soon I must try the savory version too. Lets see how to make this easy eggless French toast recipe at home. I am sure most of the kids & even their fathers would love this toast. Give it a shot and let me know !!

Eggless French toast recipe

Eggless French toast recipe using custard powder

Cuisine: Indian

Category: Breakfast

Serves: 5 nos

Prep time: 5 Minutes

Cook time: 5 Minutes

Total time: 10 Minutes

INGREDIENTS

1 cup - 250ml Bread slices - 5 nos ( Milk bread or wheat bread) Custard powder - 1.5 tbsp ( Vanilla flavor) Sugar - 1.5 tbsp Boiled milk - 1/2 cup Cinnamon powder - 1/2 tsp Vanilla essence or rose white essence - 1/2 tsp Cooking oil or melted butter - to grease

METHOD

Take the custard powder, sugar, Vanilla essence, cinnamon powder in a wide plate.Add boiled & cooled milk and mix well without lumps. I used a big plate as its convenient for dipping the bread slice. If you want, you can mix them in a bowl too. Now dip the bread slice on both the sides and all the corners. Heat a dosa pan and drizzle with oil or butter. Place the bread slice and keep the flame medium.Flip the bread after it turns golden brown. Cook both the sides and remove in a plate. Serve hot with chocolate sauce or honey or chopped fruits !! Enjoy !

Note

Adjust the quantity of sugar based on your sweet buds. The quantity of sugar also depends on the sweetness of bread. I used 1.5 tbsp. Use just 2 tsp to 1tbsp for mild sweetness. Make sure the milk is boiled and is at room temperature.It should not be hot.  U can replace custard powder with corn flour. Serve it really hot to enjoy its best taste.

Try this easy n quick French toast recipe for your family and enjoy !

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Easy Garlic Spaghetti Recipe – Indian Vegetarian Spaghetti Recipes

Food blogging has made me try and taste varieties of recipes from various cuisines which I have not even imagined in my life. Being a South Indian, my whole food world was just revolving around Idli, dosa, poori and chapathi . But after I became a food blogger, my eating habits and cooking have changed completely. I am really proud and happy to be a passionate food blogger. 

Pasta, Hakka Noodles, Tacos, Spaghetti, Quesadilla, Tortilla – All these terms were very new to me until I saw them in our fellow bloggers blog. I did not even know how to cook them perfectly. Slowly I am learning everything and blogging the same to help beginners like me. I am happy that I am trying out various international recipes in my kitchen. My recent crush was to try spaghetti at home. 

Spaghetti is basically a type of noodles made from durum wheat semolina. Spaghetti is the plural form of the Italian word spaghetto, which is a diminutive of spago, meaning "thin string" or "twine". It is a staple food of traditional Italian cuisine ( Source: Wiki). Cooking spaghetti is not so difficult as I thought. Its procedure is more like cooking noodles. 

As a beginner, I wanted to make an easy and simple Indian style Vegetarian spaghetti recipe. I found this easy stir fried, garlicky spaghetti recipe HERE as I din’t have any vegetables in hand. I made some modifications as per my family’s taste buds and tried it for a Sunday breakfast. It came out really well with an awesome flavor of roasted onion and garlic in olive oil.  

This is just a basic spaghetti recipe. For variations ansd make it more rich, you can add sliced, sauteed vegetables and grated cheese on top before serving. Sendhil & Raksha gave a big thumbs up after eating. We relished it with tomato sauce. Its a quick breakfast recipe for bachelors and working women as there is very less chopping works. Kids would love this for sure. Do try it out for a change and share your feedback here. Lets see how to cook spaghetti and make this Indian style, vegetarian garlic spaghetti recipe with step by step pictures.

Check out some of my International recipes in Indian style below
Eggless pancakes
Indian Vegetarian quesadilla
Indian style Veg masala pasta recipe
Veg tacos recipe
Fruit & Yogurt parfait
Nasi goreng/ Indonesian fried rice
Veg Hakka noodles

Easy Veg spaghetti recipe-Indian style

Easy, garlicky Indian Veg spaghetti recipe

Cuisine: Indian

Category: Pasta recipes

Serves: 2

Prep time: 15 Minutes

Cook time: 10 Minutes

Total time: 25 Minutes

INGREDIENTS

Spaghetti - 200gms  Water - 10 cups Big onion - 2 nos ( sliced thinly) Olive oil or cooking oil - 2 tbsp Spring onion - 2 sprig ( finely chopped) Red chilli flakes - 1.5 tsp Pepper powder - 1 tsp Soy sauce - 1/4 tsp ( optional) Garlic - 10 cloves (finely chopped & crushed) Salt - as needed

METHOD

In a wide bowl, boil 10 cups of water adding some salt and few drops of oil. Put the spaghetti as such (Do not break it) and let it cook in high flame for 15 minutes. Initially, spaghetti won’t be completely immersed.  As It starts to cook, It will get immerse into the water completely and becomes soft like noodles. You can even cover and cook the spaghetti for sometime but water may spill while cooking. So stay nearby and adjust the flame whenever needed. Spaghetti takes more time to cook than our regular noodles.So take care while cooking. Take out one string of spaghetti and check if it breaks and soft to touch. If so, switch off the flame and transfer the cooked spaghetti to a colander(steel sieve) Drain the excess water completely and leave it aside. Chop the onion thinly into slices. Finely chop the garlic cloves and crush it slightly using a mortar & pestle. Chop the spring onions finely. Heat olive oil in a kadai. Saute the crushed garlic cloves for few seconds. Add sliced onions and salt. Saute till onion turns transparent. Now add the red chilli flakes. Mix it well. Lastly add the cooked spaghetti, pepper powder and soy sauce if adding. Mix well using a fork. Toss it well. Make sure spaghetti doesn’t break. Check for taste and add more pepper powder & salt. Garnish with finely chopped spring onions. Serve hot immediately. Enjoy with tomato ketchup or sauce ! You can add some grated cheese on top before serving kids. Enjoy !

Note

Adjust the quantity of chilli flakes and pepper powder as per your taste. If you like tomato flavor in spaghetti, you can add a tbsp of tomato sauce while mixing. For variations, you can try adding thinly sliced capsicum, carrot, mushroom and potato while sauting onions. You can add some grated cheese on top before serving.

 

Try this easy and yummy Indian Vegetarian garlic-ky spaghetti recipe and enjoy !  

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Veg Quesadilla Recipe - Indian Vegetarian Quesadilla

Recently I tasted Mexican Veg Quesadillas at Taco bell. Its my long time wish to prepare Vegetarian quesadilla at home. So I bought tortilla sheets and tried it in my own combination after watching few you tube video recipes. I made it for our Sunday breakfast. I din’t have sour cream, cheese or other Mexican ingredients in hand. So I used tomato ketchup and mayonnaise along with mixed vegetables stuffing and made it in our Indian style.It came out very well. Sendhil & Raksha liked it a lot. Try this easy and simple Indian Veggie quesadilla at home and enjoy your breakfast. I am sure kids would love this recipe.Lets see how to make Vegetable quesadilla with simple stuffing .
Friends, I am enjoying a short vacation in Valparai and surrounding areas. So I drafted these recipes in advance and posting them here. I may not be able to respond to your mails and queries quickly. So please bear with me for another 5 days. Thanks.

Veg quesadilla recipe

Indian style Vegetable quesadilla recipe for breakfast/dinner

Cuisine: Indian

Category: Breakfast

Serves: Serves 2

Prep time: 10 Minutes

Cook time: 20 Minutes

Total time: 30 Minutes

INGREDIENTS

Tortilla sheets - 3 nos Olive oil/Cooking oil - 2 tbsp Tomato sauce/Tomato ketchup - to spread Mayonaise - to spread For stuffing Carrot - 1 no Capsicum - 1/4 no Big onion - 1 no Tomato - 1 no Cabbage - 1/2 cup Pepper powder - 1 tsp Sugar – 1/2 tsp Red Chilli Sauce or green chilli sauce - 1 - 2 tsp ( based on taste) Herb seasoning/ Oregano mix - 1/4 tsp Rosemary leaves - a pinch Salt - as needed

METHOD

Chop the vegetables into thin strips. Heat oil in a kadai and saute the onions, chopped vegetables till its half cooked. Add the tomato strips and saute until mushy.Add salt & sugar while sauting.This helps for quick cooking and prevents color changing of vegetables. After the vegetables are 3/4th cooked, add red chilli sauce, pepper powder, herb seasoning mix and rosemary leaves.Mix well. Check for taste and add more spices as you like.Stuffing is ready. Take the tortilla sheets and microwave in high power for 1 minute. I kept in 800w power.Take a sheet and spread the tomato ketchup. Spread the stuffing in the center. Apply 2 tsp of mayonnaise all over the stuffing as shown in the picture.Fold it like a half moon. Heat a dosa tawa & sprinkle a tsp of oil. Cook the folded quesadilla on both the sides till golden. Remove and cut into three triangular shaped pieces using a scissors. Serve hot with salsa or cheesy sauce.Enjoy !

Note

Adjust the quantity of chilli sauce & pepper powder as per your taste. You can replace red chilli sauce or green chilli sauce. You can replace mayonnaise with sour cream.

Yummy Indian style vegetarian quesadilla is ready to enjoy !!

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