When was planning for Mega marathon I just wrote down all the bakes I want to include and after I completed found that most of the cookies are easy but needs a little patience , I had no time for trail and error , so went on in swing for 2 weeks. I myself couldn’t believe that I completed all my baking before hand. Mehandi cookie where in my to do list from the day I started my blog. These are so attractive I couldn’t resist making them but again I didn’t have the cookie cutter so I thought why not I trace the hand but still I was not so sure about it and one day I got these hand shaped cookie cutter online, hurray and here am with these attractive and very festive Indian cookies. I always loved having mehandi in my hand , My cousin was a great mehandi artist and she used my hand for practicing very well and I liked it too.
Mehandi in form of cookie was a challenge to me as am a very poor mehandi artist so pardon me if the design is not so professional. I rested the cookie for 2 days in a air tight container and then decorated it, by then all the hand shaped cookies were gone and only 3 cookies were left for me to take photograph. I took 1/2 hour to decorate these cookie it was so time consuming but my H loved the way they look and yeah I too but the only thing was I felt the designs where not too gud and started asking my H ” is it gud ? really ??? ” he said ” wat ??? gud ???? It looks fabulous just go ahead .. plz don’t stare at the cookies and give me to eat ” lol I had no other choice left now the quality check was done and here I am with these attractive and Indianized cookies. I made these cookies to depict My joy in doing mega marathon is not less than a festival to me . This was supposed to be my last post for marathon but though I have some more to post, am so happy that atleast the last post is on time. Now lets move on to the recipe..
Mehndi Cookie
| Category | Preparation time | Cook Time |
|---|---|---|
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Cookie
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1 day |
10 -15 mins
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- In a bowl cream room temperature butter and sugar till combine.
- Add vanilla extract , sieve all purpose flour , baking pd in the creamed butter.
- Also add salt and Mix them well to a smooth dough.
- Add 1 -2 tbsp Milk if the dough is too crumbly or dry.
- Roll the dough on a lightly floured surface and using a hand cookie cutter cut the dough and do the same with all the leftover dough.
- Place the cut cookie in a lined cookie tray and refrigerate for 1/2 – 1 hour.
- Pre heat the oven at 350 F for 10 mins. Bake the cookies at 350 F for 10- 15 mins or Till you see very light browning in the corners.
- Take the cookies out of the oven and let them cool on the tray for a while.
- After they cool down a bit transfer them on a wire rack and let them cool completely.
- I decorated My cookies after 2 days . Keep the cookies for atleast a day and decorate it the next day as the cookies firm up well.
- Melt the chocolate chips in microwave for 30 secs , take it out mix it and again microwave it for 30 secs. Till should be smooth with no lumps of chocolate.
- Transfer the melted chocolate in to the piping bag or a zip lock.
- Sip off the ends and put the mehandi design on the hand cookie as desired.
- They are perfect for any Indian festive holiday or celebration.
that is a cute idea for girl kids….awesome…
Cheers
Anu@RasA-svAda
Beautiful hands & lovely mehandi. Even I live mehandi & always look for excuses to apply it when I am in India.
Wow, hand shaped cutter, havent noticed it anywhere, mehendi cookie rocks Manju, dont say that u dont put the chocolate mehendi prefectly, am very much poor in putting mehendi, but very much good when its comes to have cookies.. Such an incredible choice, am bored to repeat the same word Manju, U ROCK GAL..U think always different..
u come up with so many amazingly beautiful ideas…love it…. mehendi cookie looks so beautiful and perfectly done
So pretty! and lovely pics too:)
wow… so beautiful. really need a lot of patience to make the lovely henna pattern on the cookies
Never came across hand shaped cookie cutter. These cookies look fabulous…
These cookies look fabulous. They look so real that I wouldn't dare to eat them. 🙂
Loved your bakes this marathon.
I love the art work on these cookies, I wonder if I would be able to eat the hand cookie! But I like the Mehndi concept.
Thats a great art work Manjula..very nicely baked and designed..see that your other bakes are pending..will check when you post..All your bakes were wonderful, wish you had more time to do it properly!
beautiful art work!!! wow… too beautiful to eat…
Lovely activity for kids. And great way to learn mehendi too. 🙂
Lovely henna art on a hand shaped cookie. I would ziploc it and hang it on display 🙂 Lovely cookies to end the marathon.
What an unique cookie and love your mehendi design. I probably made the worst mehendis and looking at your work, you are 100% better than me. Nicely done.
Very well done and the mehendi cookies sound interesting and innovative..
Wonderful idea….want to try….just one doubt…. Later Chocolate will become firm on cokies or it will be soft..and can we use cooking Chocolate to make design
Wonderful idea….want to try….just one doubt…. Later Chocolate will become firm on cokies or it will be soft..and can we use cooking Chocolate to make design
Wonderful idea….want to try….just one doubt…. Later Chocolate will become firm on cokies or it will be soft..and can we use cooking Chocolate to make design
Hi deeksha, Yes it will harden and yes you can use cooking chocolate.