Chocolate chips cookies

makes12 small or 6 big cookies
preparation time: 15 minutes
baking time: 7-10
total time: 22-25 minutes

ingredients:
100g unsalted butter
1/3 cup granulated sugar
1 whole egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
pinch of salt
1/2 cup semi sweet chocolate chips

Steps: 

watch the steps demonstrated in the video above

Eid Cookies, Maamoul (Arabic dessert)

The smell of freshly baked Maamoul spreading through out the place is an Eid ritual.. This is my version of these delicious cookies.. hope you like them

Recipe makes: 60 cookies

Dough ingredients:
0.5 kg coarse semolina
0.5 kg fine semolina
2 tbs granulated sugar
¼ teaspoon mahlab powder
½ cup gee
250g unsalted butter
¼ cup orange blossom water
¼ cup rose water
1 tsp instant yeast
¼ cup warm water


Fillings ingredients:
Dates Mamoul:
0.5 kg dates paste
1 tbs vegetable oil

Pistachios Mamoul or
walnuts Mamoul:
150g crushed pistachios/ or
crushed walnuts
4 tbs powder sugar
2 tbs orange blossom water
1 tsp cinnamon powder (for walnuts)

Steps: 

watch the steps demonstrated in the video above

Love Cookies

Baked with lots of love and decorated with royal icing. Bake it to your loved ones and share the love!

Makes: 24 cookies
Preparation and cooking time: 40 minutes

Ingredients:
1 cup all-purpose flour

½ teaspoon baking powder

¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder

Pinch of salt

½ cup semisweet chocolate chips

¼ stick butter

1 egg

½ teaspoon vanilla extract

Royal icing:

See: http://lailaskitchen.blogspot.com/2013/02/royal-icing.html

Steps:

In a heatproof bowl, melt the chocolate chips and butter over a saucepan filled with simmering water. Make sure that the bottom of the bowl is not touching the water. Stir the chocolate until it starts melting, turn off the heat and continue stirring until no lumps remain. Keep the melted chocolate aside.

In a separate bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, cocoa and salt together.

In another bowl, whisk the egg with the melted chocolate well. Then add the dry ingredients gradually until it forms a dough.

Separate the dough into two halved

Spread each half to 1 cm inch thickness

Freeze the dough for 20 minutes

Preheat the oven to 190 C, cut the dough, bake it for 5-7 minutes or until you see the edges become brown (don’t burn them!)

Let the cookies cool, decorate with royal icing and serve them cold