Health for life

As i told earlier, i baked 3 cookies out of 4 cookies suggested by Vijayalakshmi for our this months Home Bakers Challenge, one among the cookies is this peanut butter cookies. Am an ardent fan of peanut butter and my pantry will always a huge bottle of this nutty butter. This peanut butter is quite versatile and tried many dishes out of it, even i tried adding in our Indian eggplant curries, trust me they tastes fantabulous. I baked this peanut butter cookies immediately once Viji announced her choice of cookies and everyone at home just loved munching this super nutty cookies.

Peanut butter cookies with crunchy peanut butter tastes fantastic and obviously they makes a pect pair with a cup of warm milk. Eventhough am not a breakfast person, i dont hesitate a second to munch these baked goodies for my breakfast, yep i just love it that much. Now you may know how much i love these super nutty butter.To add more nuttiness to this delicious scrumptious cookies, you can also some chopped roasted peanuts too.Sending this biscuits to Gurus Giveaway - Kids Special.


Recipe Source : Martha Stewart
1+1/2cups All purpose flour
1tsp Baking powder
1+1/2cup Crunchy peanut butter
1cup Packed light brown sugar
1/2cup Unsalted soften butter
Milk (as per need)

Preheat the oven to 350F.

In a mixing bowl, beat together the peanut butter, sugar and butter until they turns smooth.

Sift the flour and baking powder together and keep aside.

Gradually add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients and combine,sprinkle milk to turn everything as soft dough.

Pinch off the dough as medium size balls, and roll.

Place it over a baking sheet lined over a baking tray, press the balls with a fork.

Bake the cookies for 15-18minutes until they turns lightly golden.

Cool the cookies on a wire rack and enjoy.

Mousse is a french word which means something light and airy in texture. Mousse is a type of airy texture food either prepared as a sweet or savoury goes for light and fluffy to creamy and thick texture. Dessert mousses are made typically with whipped egg whites or whipped cream, they are usually flavoured with chocolate or a with fruits puree, mousse dessert are served after a heavy meal and this light dessert will suits pectly for many occasions and sometimes chocolate mousse is used for making frosting cakes or in entremets, a variety of single serving desserts.

Coming to todays chocolate mousse its completely egg free, gelatin free. A very light and delicious dessert prepared with milk, cream,agar agar,melted chocolate and cornflour. This mousse is extremely easy to prepare and seriously gets vanished very much quickly too.This is my third post for this weeks blogging marathon under the theme chocolates..Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM#33..


2cups Milk
1tbsp Cornflour
4tbsp Sugar
1tbsp Cocao powder
1/4cup Chocolate chips
2tsp Agar agar powder
1/2tsp Vanilla essence
1cup Cream

Mix the cornflour, cocoa powder with quarter cup of milk and keep aside.

Bring boil the milk with sugar in a pan.

Add the chocolate chips,cocao-cornflour paste to the boiling milk and stir continously.

Remove it from the flame and let it cool.

Meanwhile bring boil quarter cup of water, add in the agar agar powder, cook until it gets dissolves. Let it cool completely.

Beat the cream until they turns fluffy.

Add the agar agar mixture,cream to the chocolate custard.

Mix everything gently and pour this mixture to the serving bowl or ramekins.

Keep in fridge for atleast two hours.

Decorate it with sugar pearls or sprinkers.

Serve.

Thumbprint cookies goes always for shortbread like very buttery and melt in mouth texture cookies. These cookies are seriously very addictive and one of my favourite cookies are simple vanilla and chocolate thumbprint cookies. Todays post is prepared with a fruit pulp that too strawberry pulp, actually these cookies are suggested by Viji for Home Bakers Challenge but somehow i couldnt post these strawberry thumbprint cookies earlier. But thank God these pretty attractive cookies fits pectly for this weeks blogging marathon theme. Theme of this first week is cooking with fruits and i chosed berries from the list given by Srivalli.

After rasgullas and eggless pudding, hope you all will definitely love these scrumptious cookies with strawberries.If you dont get the fresh strawberries, you can still make these cookies with frozen strawberries too, but if you using frozen berries, take care not to add water and make the pulp very thick else your cookie dough will turn watery and your cookies will get flatten easily while baking, they wont retain their shape. Kids will definitely love this cookies and none can stop just with one after having these cookies, yes they are seriously very additive.Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM#34.




1+1/2cups All purpose flour
4tbsp Butter (room temperature)
7tbsp Sugar
1/4tsp Baking powder
3tbsp Thick strawberry pulp
A pinch Salt

Chocolate Sauce:
1/4cup Dark chocolate bar (chopped roughly)
2tsp Butter
1tbsp Cream


Sift the flour, salt and baking powder,keep aside.

In an another bowl, take the butter, sugar and whisk until they gets well blend.

Add the thick strawberry pulp,beat well.

Slowly add the flour to the wet ingredients and make a soft dough.

Wrap the dough and keep in fridge for an hour.