Mere Attithi Series #3 Cherry Cookies - The Mad Scientists Kitchen

One of my first chats on emerging out of cocoon
of anonymous blogger was Nisa Homey. You do know Nisa right? She blogs at
Cooking is Easy that she says” happened in March 2010” and she does make it
look easy!!

Let me tell you a bit about her, as she is my guest in this series today!

Nisa
is pronounced as Nisha which is means night. She is a law graduate but a stay
at home mom to her very cute kids Nidhi and Cheriyan and of course here very
supportive husband. Nisa was born and brought up in the capital city of Kerala,
Trivandrum. She now lives in Calicut
(Kozhikode), Kerala.

Nisa is passionate about cooking and
believes that cooking should be easy and fun. Fun part she believes can come
when you know the exact details of a recipe. Nisa claims that she does not have
the patience to read a long recipe (so also me Nisa I just skip, skip and skip
into a mess) so Nisa makes her recipes as simple as possible. The best part is
she has a pictorial. 😉

One thing that impresses me about Nisa is
she uses and cooks with things which are available locally and to make use of
whatever is available in her pantry. Do check out her where she has cookedusing the coconut shell!!

To
quote Nisa,” I hate to make cakes with expensive imported chocolate...so my
cookies and cakes are mostly with Cadbury's cocoa powder. I mostly
cook with the spices that are available locally. ...I am wary of expensive
chocolate...I think food should be accessible....”

What you see at Nisa place is mostly
everyday food, traditional Kerala food, cakes, cookies, bread. Traditional recipes
are of course from her mom and mom-in law, aunts, sis-in-laws, cousins, and
some are Nisa own inventions.

Now with all this don’t you think Nisa must
have featured somewhere someplace? She has so do check these links out…

Kerala Beef Ularthiya on www.recipeus.com

Best Dish Award by Kerala Kitchen for my Fish Molee Recipe:
http://ramyasrecipe.blogspot.in/2012/05/kerala-kitchen-2012-event-roundup.html
My fish fingers were featured on Allfreecopycatrecipes.com. Click on this link
to view my recipe http://www.allfreecopycatrecipes.com/Seafood-Entrees/Homemade-Fish-Fingers/ct/1#
Boil and Bake Fruit Cake- Featured on CookEatShare.com. Click on this link to
view my recipe.
http://cookeatshare.com/recipes/boil-and-bake-fruit-cake-step-by-step-606099
Chickpea Yogurt Salad- Featured on Miz Helen's Full Plate Thursday. Click on
the link below:

http://mizhelenscountrycottage.blogspot.com/
Versatile blogger award from Sonali Pradhan
http://onlyfishrecipes.blogspot.in/2012/02/coconut-coriander-fish-fry-and-more.html#axzz1mZFC4m4m

and my personal favourite is the one featured
in Foodieblogroll.com

http://www.foodieblogroll.com/featured/featured-blogs-for-april-27-2012

Nisa’s personal favourite on her blog isChocolate crinkles (mine too) and the most visited is Chicken Butter Masala do
check it out girls… I am sure we will
have plenty more coming from Nisa as she plans to blog as long as she cooks!

My favourite is Garlic bread rolls which was my first successful attempt at baking bread, not to forget Bread the Tangzhong Method!!

Now enough of my blah, blah lets get down
to Nisa recipe today, which I am sure you have guessed is a bake…

So here she is, ladies, in her own words Nisa of Cooking
is Easy with her

Cherry Cookies

Hi everyone I am Nisa Homey from Cooking
Is Easy and it is so wonderful to be on Mad Scientist’s Kitchen today! I was
really excited when Archana asked me to do a guest post for her...my
first guest post...so naturally more excited than ever. Since Archana favored a
baking recipe, I immediately started thinking of making some fun twists to
making some cherry cookies. Just the other day, while visiting the local bakery
I bought some cherries on an impulse without thinking what I will make with
it....for just Rs 20/ INR....some 50 gm or so....once I reached home I looked
at the cherries and they back at me for I don't know how long....and
thus these cherry cookies were born in my oven in my tiny weeny kitchen.

I decided to chop up the cherries with
the help of my food processor and was eager to see how my cookies will turn out
to be....

The cookies turned out to be
crunchy.....and kids loved this ruby studded cookies....

This is my basic butter cookies
recipe...the egg yolk is a must, do not skip it......you can also try other variations
like adding chocolate chips, nuts, tutti frutti......and Elsy, if you are
reading this thank you for giving me this recipe.

So lets get baking!

Ingredients:

Flour: 200 gm.

Butter: 100 gm/1 stick.

Powdered Sugar: 100 gm.

Baking powder: ¼ tsp.

Egg yolk: 1.

Vanilla essence: 1 tsp.

Cherries: 150 gm.

Method:

Butter should be at
room temperature. Cream butter with a whisk to make it soften. Add powdered
sugar and cream well.

Add the egg yolk and
cream again. Add vanilla essence, mix.

Add the sifted flour and baking powder
and mix well. Use your hands to gather the dough.

I chopped the cherries in my food
processor.

Love the colour contrast.

Simply knead with hand to bring the
dough together.

I love butter paper they are a life
saver for me....roll the dough into small rounds and place them on top of
butter paper two inch apart. And bake them in a preheated oven at 180 degree C
for 20 min or until the sides have slightly browned and center is still soft to
touch.

Or if you like to be really crunchy can
bake for another 5 to 10 min.

Baked and ready!!

Store in air tight containers....it will
keep for 2 weeks...

YUM!

Nisa

Yes
Nisa they will keep if we let them stay in the container!! Thanks a lot dear I
love these cookies.

Here are my links t the first two in this series

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Priya says

August 30, 2012 at 8:05 pm

Glad to know more about Nisa, never know that she is a law graduate.

Btw cookies looks damn cute and attractive.

Julie says

August 30, 2012 at 9:02 pm

Colorful yummy cookies..lovely guest post!!

Follow foodie says

August 30, 2012 at 11:54 pm

Simple and Yum!
Todays Recipe - Mochakottai Kulambu
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runnergirlinthekitchen.blogspot.com says

August 31, 2012 at 2:30 am

Thanks for sharing so much about Nisa and her passion for cooking from simple ingredients. I immediately visited her site and loved the creation out of a coconut shell.. brilliant!
Getting back to the post - Cookies are delish!

Priti S says

August 31, 2012 at 3:54 am

Looks yum...

Nisa Homey says

August 31, 2012 at 4:27 am

Thank you Archana...I am so glad I could be a part of your new series..

Maayeka says

August 31, 2012 at 6:05 am

So cute and beautiful cookies.nice to know about Nisha!

Vijayalakshmi Dharmaraj says

August 31, 2012 at 8:22 am

nice guest post... cookies looks so yumm...
VIRUNTHU UNNA VAANGA

Ramya says

August 31, 2012 at 1:25 pm

What a nice intro archana:-)
The cookies r a treat to eyes Nisa:-)

sneh says

August 31, 2012 at 2:15 pm

Good to know about Nisa, lovely cookies!

nayana says

August 31, 2012 at 5:12 pm

Delicious cookies, nice to know about Nisa........

http://nayanas-kitchen-kreations.blogspot.in

Kalyan P says

September 02, 2012 at 11:34 am

looks so healthy & delicious...mouthwatering!

mjskit says

September 02, 2012 at 9:58 pm

These cookies do look fabulous!! I've never had cherry cookies nor even seen any, so what a unique recipe! Love it! Great post you two!

Shanthi says

September 05, 2012 at 4:07 am

Very yummy...looks perfect. Would like to have it now...

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