Checker Board Cookies

Checkerboard cookies are fun and easy to make as they look like. It's best to have vanilla and chocolate both the flavors at the same time. This looks beautiful once they are done and perfect for tea time. These are kids' all time favorites.

Checker Board Cookies

Let's dive in to the amazing cookies.

Ingredients:

• All Purpose Flour – 3 Cups

• Butter (At room temp) -1 Cup

• Granulated Sugar – 1 Cup

• Vanilla Extract – 1tsp

• Baking Powder – 1 ½ tsp

• Cocoa Powder – 1/3 Cup

• Salt – A pinch

• Egg – 1

Steps:

1. Keep the Baking tray ready lined with parchment paper.

2. Mix Butter and Sugar until light in Stand or Hand mixer.

3. Add Egg, vanilla extract, Baking Powder and salt to the mixture and mix for further 1 min.

4. Remove the attachments and add the flour to make dough.

5. Divide the dough in half, removing half from the mixing bowl.

6. Add the cocoa powder to another half.

7. Place the dough in two separate cling film.

Tips : You can use any butter cookie recipe, divide the dough in two parts and follow the rest of the steps to acquire the checkerboard look on the cookie.

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Happy Baking :)

Top 10 Baking Tips & Tricks

Create a magic in your kitchen by following these 10 tips & tricks.

Top 10 Baking Tips & Tricks

1. Go through the recipe end to end:

Yes, you read it right, Read the recipe once or twice before you start anything.

It makes lots of difference to Prepare and begin the baking activity with any rush in between.

2. Room Temperature:

This is to ensure that all the baking ingredients are at room temperature to get the best result.

3. Measurement:

As Baking is a science and precise measuring of ingredients are the key to achieve it. Ensure to use measuring cups and spoons or measuring scale to achieve the actual measurement same as mentioned in your recipe. To measure the dry ingredients, always level it off, until its mentioned to be heaped.

4. Prep Up:

Its always good to be ready with required equipment involved in baking along with the measured ingredients before you start. It also includes Preheating, preparing the cake tin with butter or parchment paper.

5. Oven Thermometer:

This is a complete game changer as every other oven is different and pre-heating works differently too. So, its good to invest in good oven thermometer to ensure we are baking at appropriate temperature to get perfect baking good all the time.

6. Oven Door should be closed:

Oven door should remain closed until few mins prior to final time as it allow to intact the temperature inside. If in doubt to check whether cake is done or not, do insert the toothpick and close the door immediately.

7. Best Quality Ingredients:

This makes a remarkable difference in taste as the quality ingredients greatly enhance the final product.

8. Resting or Cooling after Bake:

Always cool down your products before storing or wrapping over cooking rack. Evaporation and condensation make the difference even after the product is out of oven. Apart from that, for Cakes It allows to have flat tops for cakes which are further make it easy to work on layering and for cookies, resting time ends up-to perfect chewy consistency.

9. Baking Tools & Tins:

Using the right tools and correct size of tins make a difference while following any recipe as the baking time different with the size.

10. Servings:

Its difficult to arrive at exact serving. However the standard guidelines are:

8 inch square cake = 6-8 servings,

8 inch round layer cake = 12-16 servings,

9 X 13 inch sheet cake = 12-16 servings

Make what you love the most !

Do share your experience, I would love to see how you get along.

Feel free to share and comment, happy to take questions if you have any?

Stay tuned for more!!

Thanks for reading !! Have a wonderful day!!

Happy Baking :)