Preeja's cookbook

 Dry Fruits & Nuts Cake Cooking time : 80 minutes Preparation time - 30 minutes Ingredients: Mixed dry fruits  - 600g Orange juice - 250 ml Almonds - 60g Tutty fruity - 150g Chopped pistaachio - 40 g Chopped cashew nuts - 40g All purpose flour /Maida - 225g + 3 Tbsp for dusting the dry fruits & nuts Brown sugar - 225g Unsalted butter - 225 g ( Room temperature) Eggs - 4 cloves - 4 cinnamon - small piece (or cinnamon powder -1/4 tsp) nutmeg - small piece (or nutmeg powder -1/4 tsp) zest of one orange Method: 1. Chop dry fruits into 1 cm chunks. Put the dry fruits in a jar and mix it.  2. Pour orange juice into the jar over the dry fruits. I hadn't add nuts and tutty fruity in this stage. Shut the jar , and live it for 5 hours.  3. After 5 hours, drain the excess juice and keep it aside. 4.The cake batter for 2 kg of cake . I have used 2 loaf tin of 1.5 liter capacity. Butter the inside of cake  tin, making sure to get into all corners. Line the tin with b...

 Whole wheat cookies | ഗോതമ്പു കുക്കീസ്‌ Ingredients: Whole wheat flour / ഗോതമ്പു പൊടി  - 1 & 1/2 cup Unsalted butter / ഉപ്പില്ലാത്ത വെണ്ണ - 100g ( room temperature) Powdered sugar / പൊടിച്ച പഞ്ചസാര - 3/4 cup Vanilla essence /വാനില എസ്സെൻസ്  - 1 tsp Milk / പാൽ - 6 tbsp Method : 1. Beat sugar and butter for 4 to 5 minutes . Add vanilla essence into it. 2. Add wheat flour and mix well. You will get a crumble mixture. 3. Add milk 2 tbsp at a time and make a soft dough. Do not add all milk at a once.  4. Preheat oven at 180 c. 5. Place baking sheet in a baking tray. Take 1 tbsp of dough and make a cookie shape. 6. Place the cookie shape dough in baking tray. Keep a gap between each cookies. 7. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes . Cool the cookies. Enjoy !!!! Notes: 1. you can add nuts or choco chips into the dough and bake.   2. When you remove the cookies from the oven they will still look soft on top side. It will be hard after cooling . Please don't over bake. Please ...