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Kitchen Corner
Checkerboard Cookies Recipe
November 17, 2018
Ingredients Of Checkerboard Cookies
2000 gms Refined flour (maida)
1000 gms Sugar
1000 gms Butter
50 gms Milk powder
10 gms Baking powder
20 gms Vanilla powder
20 gms Glucose powder
10 gms Caramel colour
How to Make Checkerboard Cookies
1.Sieve flour, baking, vanilla, glucose and milk powder together.
2.Cream butter and sugar well and fold in the flour.
3.Divide the dough in half, with one half in color and another with caramel.
4.Divide each dough in half, shape as a square log, cling wrap and chill it for an hour.
5.Remove from fridge, wet the dough slightly and lay one colored dough beside one plain dough and stick them together.
6.Place the remaining plain dough above the colored and the colored dough above the base plain dough.
7.You should have alternate colors similar to that seen on a chess board. Chill the dough for half an hour to set.
8.Serve.
Key Ingredients: Refined flour (maida), Sugar, Butter, Milk powder, Baking powder, Vanilla powder, Glucose powder, Caramel colour
