SLC season 26 week 1|| Vanilla cookies with decorative shapes||

Greetings to all my friends

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I hope all of you good welcome back with new season 26 in Steemit learning challenge week with very tampting course regarding cookies.....I am @sualeha from Pakistan it's good chance for all of those who love to learn more about baking cookies 🍪 in unique style recipes from our lovely teacher @mvchecin ,I had great interest in cooking and baking.The recipes of the first week course are simply fantastic 😍 😍 vanilla cookies I bakes many times vanilla and chocolate cookies.

Make vanilla cookies in the shape of a heart or circle, decorated in the colors of your choice. You can make the recipe presented in this course or another recipe with the same ingredients; you can vary the quantities. (Detail the preparation steps.) Include your name tag and date on the final recipe presentation.

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Ingredients and utensils

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This recipe is easy and practical. It's divided into three basic segments: preparing the dough, shaping, baking the cookies, and decorating. Which segment was the most difficult and time-consuming for you? Can you give an approximate time?

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Well as mentioned in lesson one we can divide this recipe into three main steps ,I followed the course recipe so by first I making dough then shaping and baking and last task is decorating the cookies so guys let's move on the recipe step by step

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Preparing the dough

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By first I took a clean bowl 🥣 add sugar and butter in it and beaten well from electric beater on medium speed till it became fluffy in texture texture .After that added vanilla essence essen,egg , baking soda one by one and used continued electric beater to keep our dough well combined and soft .When all ingredients incorporated well wrapped the dough in plastic wrapping sheets and stayed in fridge for 30 minutes.

Shapping/ baking cookies

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After 30 minutes then dough were settled and easy to making cookies shaping ,it's slightly sticky so patiently handle the whole procedure,spread the dough grim roller pin with soft hands and placed cookies cutter and made heart and circular shaped cookies as you see in collage share below 👇.

Don't forget to place butter paper on kitchen top and on baking trays as I said the dough were slightly soft and sticky so precaution is better... as compared face challenge.

When all cookies shaped then placed on baking tray and put in the pre heated oven on 160 degrees temperature for 15 minutes.When edges of the cookies were slightly darker it's indicated the cookies done so immediately removed from oven and let it cool on wire rack till cookies completely cool and crunchy.now moved on last last step .

Decorating the cookies

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For decoration I again followed the course recipe ,the ingredients arranged and start making for cookies too ,due to vanilla essence the yummy aroma came out from cookies they all really yummy with out extra sweet toppings but according to contest theme I prepared it from these simple ingredients for more tempting it ,used few ingredients.

• Icing sugar
• Gelatin flavoured
• Milk

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Take a cup in which added icing sugar and one tablespoon milk mixed well then incorporated strowbbery jelatin powder and filled in piping bag and decorating the cookies in simple style the red lines looking good on white cookies.

In collage you can see how easily I done my decoration from piping bag

Final presentation

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^{Vanilla cookies with decorative shapes}

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Here is the final turned out of my crunchy cookies I freshly served with tea ,I hope you all like my presentation.

This recipe is easy and practical. It's divided into three basic segments: preparing the dough, shaping, baking the cookies, and decorating. Which segment was the most difficult and time-consuming for you? Can you give an approximate time

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Well rolling dough and shaping cookies little bit time consuming as well need attention in fact need practice for this step ,dough were soft so handle with love 💞.Over all I am enjoyed the whole process and glad with my final results.

How did you feel when decorating the cookies? Did you feel creative, or did you have some kind of limitation?

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Well I had great experience about baking cakes but cookies need more practice, overall nice and fun base activity,I will definitely learn more from course ,my family loved chocolate chip cookies 🍪 more so waiting for it .Well cookies cutter helped alot during creating it , hearts and round shaped cookies usually people liked ,my little son liked star shaped so I also baked some ⭐ star shaped cookies fory love once.

Do you consider decorated cookies to be an essential snack on a dessert table?

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Well yes if you're mom you knew very well all kids love to eat cookies any time , home made cookies are pocket friendly and quickly done save your money,best solution for kids lunch boxes.Home made cookies are hygiene and you served as a evening snacks or for your guests.I gifted cookies many times to my mother in low actually she never knows baking so overall it's a gesture you present for your love once .

It's all about from my today's participation,to finish I would like to invite my friends @drhira ,@roohiasif99 and @m-fdo to participate in the Frist course .So guys it's time to leave please remember me in the parys waiting for your valuable feedback see you soon until next time.Allah Hafiz ❤️

Best Regards
@sualeha