Description
Cinnamon flavored baked treats – they have a cookie texture and crunch on the outside but slightly soft on the insides.
Ingredients
- All Purpose Flour/ Maida – 1 cup
- Baking Powder – ½ tsp
- Baking Soda – ½ tsp
- Powdered or Castor Sugar – 2 tbsp
- Brown Sugar – 1 tbsp
- Cinnamon Powder – ½ tsp
- Vanilla Custard Powder – 1 tsp (for crispness)
- Butter (cold/ slightly soft) – 2-3 tbsp
- Chilled water or milk ( to knead into a dough ) – ¼ cup (add or less)
- For the Topping
- A pinch of Brown Sugar over each piece
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl put the flour, baking powder and baking soda. Mix thoroughly with a wooden spatula.
- Add in the castor/ powdered sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon powder, custard powder. Mix again.
- Add the butter (I added only 2 tbsp) and mix with the wooden spatula till the flour is slightly crumbly.
- Now add the chilled milk OR water (I added water) and mix with hands to form a semi-soft dough (not too stiff and neither too soft). Add the milk/ water a spoonful at a time as required. Do NOT over knead the dough but knead gently to a dough of required texture.
- You may refrigerate the dough for 15 to 30 mins if butter melts and the dough is a bit difficult to handle. Refrigerating will firm the dough.
- Preheat the oven at 200 C for 10 mins. Grease a baking tray or muffin tray (see notes) lightly.
- Shape the dough into small balls and flatten slightly. Arrange on the prepared baking tray.
- Sprinkle a pinch of brown sugar over each piece. Bake in the preheated oven at 200 C for 10 to 15 mins (see notes below). They are done when the bottom is crisp and brown and tops are lightly browned in some places.
- Cool and store in airtight container. These stay good for 15 days.
Notes
1)The first time I made these, I got 10 crispies. The second time around about 16 for the same measurements!
2) Mine took 15 mins to get baked. The first 13 mins I baked with the tray on the middle rack and for the last 2 mins kept the tray on the top rack so that the tops turn bit more crispier.
3)If you make a batter like dough, you can pipe the mixture onto the baking tray with a piping bag and a star nozzle attached. You may pipe as rosettes or even like fingers..Or maybe even drop spoonfuls of the wet dough onto baking tray and bake.
4)If you make a hard dough, roll it out and cut into desired shapes with a cookies cutter and bake.
5) These crispies are baked in a muffin tray sometimes so that they do not flatten out completely when baking. Baking in a baking tray will yield more crispier ones.
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 15 mins