Its Party Time.....

Its that time of the year again. Prepartion for Christmas presents and parties....chilling winter nights, having friends and family over for dinners, sharing of your best recipes with your loved ones and exchanging presents......Isn't it??? In my Christmas party, for my American friends, I am gonno makes some mouth-watering Indian dishes and some cookies and cake-rolls for the dessert. The cookie recipe that I am going to share with you today is my "Blue-Berry Muffin Tops". You must be wondering how did I came up with this name, "MUFFIN TOPS"? When I made these for the first time, my husband said, they are soft like cake and one of my friends 'J' said, they look as if you have made muffins and cut their tops off. Then she said, why don't you call them 'Muffin Tops' and thats how we came up with this name. Try it in your Christmas party and you will be surely securing some wonderful compliments for yourself.

Makes 18 Cookies

Ingredients:

All-Purpose Flour (2 Cups)

Baking Powder (1 1/2 Tsp)

Salt (1/4 Tsp)

Sugar (1 Cup)

Butter (1 Cup, Soften)

Egg (1, At Room Temperature)

Milk (1/4 Cup)

Vanilla Essence (1.5 Tsp)

Blue-Berry (1 Cup)

Almonds (1/4 Cup, Roughly Chopped)
Pistachios (1/4 Cup, Roughly Chopped)

Method:

1. Mix the above 3 ingredients together, keep aside.
2. In a large bowl, beat butter, sugar, egg and vanilla essence untill it becomes creamy and all the ingredients are well incorporated.
3. Now add the mixture of dry ingredients, in butter-sugar mixture, 2 tbsp at a time.
4. It will start becoming hard, so keep on adding a little bit of milk in between.
5. Scrape the bowl with a rubber spatula, making sure that everything is mixed in well.
6. Now, fold the blue-berries, almonds and pistachios in the mixture. Freeze for 30 to 45 minutes.
7. Preheat the oven at 350F. On a large baking sheet, with the help of a large ice-cream scooper, scoop out the prepared cookie dough on the baking sheet, keeping each scoop at almost 1.5 inch apart.
8. Bake for 25 -30 minutes. They will become golden-brown around the edges.
9. Serve them warm with chilled vanilla ice cream.

Tips: Use craisins along with pistachios instead of blue-berries and they will be more Christmas like. Always use a cold baking sheet for making cookies, they will come out perfect everytime.