Eggless Hearty Jam Biscuits

I baked these biscuits last week and these biscuits were a instant hit at home. I had valentines day in mind so planned for this post in advance :) Will you believe I took around 500 pics in 3 schedules and most of them dissatisfied me, but finally selected these....:)

U want & u get, that's luck,

U want & u wait, that's time.

U want but u compromise, that's life.

U want & u wait & u don't compromise that's LOVE!!

Happy Valentines Day!!

Eggless Hearty Jam Biscuits Recipe

Recipe Source : Divine Taste

Makes 25-30 biscuits

Ingredients:

• Maida - 1 cup
• Custard Powder - 3/4 cup
• Thick Curd - 1/4 cup (adjust according to the dough consistency)
• Butter - 2 tbsp
• Icing Sugar - 1/2 cup
• Cornflour - 1 tbsp
• Vanilla extract - 1/2 tsp
• Mixed Fruit Jam - As required

Method:

1. Mix maida, cornflour and custard powder, keep aside.Soft butter, add sugar to it and cream well. Then add curd, vanilla essence and beat well until creamy.



2. Then add custard powder mixture to the butter sugar mixture and make it to soft dough. If your dough is sticky add little maida to make it a soft pilable dough.



3. Roll the dough on a flat surface using chapathi roller for about 5mm thickness. Then cut out shapes using cookie cutter. Collect the remaining dough and repeat the process.



4. Preheat oven to 180 deg C for 10mins. Meanwhile make a small dent in the middle of all the biscuits using a small round lid and apply a very thin layer of jam in it.Arrange it in a baking tray with aluminium foil lined.



5. Bake it for 12-15mins at 180 deg C. Allow it to cool and store them in airtight container.

My Notes:

• As I reduced the butter and replaced it with curd, the biscuits slightly puffed up, oozing out jam. So in the next batch I applied a very thin layer of jam.



• Though the butter is reduced, the crispness is perfect. The only difference I found with reducing butter was that the biscuits started to soften after 3 days. I'm sure it will stay crispy for more time when the orginal mentioned quantity of butter is added.



• I used mixed fruit jam, you can use your favorite flavour of jam. But mixed fruit went well with the custard powder flavour.

I am sure this is a kid pleaser as my lil one enjoyed it to the core. Though she first licked only the jam, later she liked the taste of the biscuits too.