Nan Khatai | Butter Biscuits - Edible Gifts • The Magic Saucepan

It all started a year back, when I had to quit my lovely job and become a stay-at-home. The initial days, in fact the initial months were a bliss. I could kiss honey good-bye, go back under my comforters once again and back into my utopian world. Those ecstatic days slowly turned into boredom. Thats when I started exploring this blogosphere. This became one of the means to pass time. Something that started as a hobby initially has now turned into a serious passion. Joining this Blogging Marathon group has taken this to the next level. I have met my flock of birds. There has been tremendous amount of sharing and learning from them and also I had the pleasure of meeting a few among them. We had a mini blogger's meet here in NYC last month. Many thanks to Pavani (Cook's Hideout) who was kind enough to accommodate all of us - Sandhya (My cooking Journey), Mir (Chef Mireille's Global creations), Usha (My Spicy Kitchen) and me. We had a wonderful time with amazing food, getting to know each other personally.

As this was my first bloggers meet and everyone being new to me, I had no idea what they would like/prefer. Thats when this edible gifting struck my mind. Edible gift is one of the perfect way to return your hostess's hospitality. More than any materialistic gifts I strongly feel that this show the other person you are geneuinely thankful and how much you care for them. I specifically saved this post for today as this week's Marathon theme - Crafts/Arts/Misc. This entire week you will find different ideas on edible gifts. Cookies always hold a high stand in everyone's heart. It is liked by people of all ages and brings a smile on everyone. There are very less people who turn away from this. This is a perfect choice in return to someone's friendliness on a special occasion.

There are so many ways to gift pack cookies. Wrap it in a tissue paper and box it or give it in a fancy container. I used these small pouches as my gift wrap. I had put each cookies with a tissue paper in between them. A colourful ribbon and a name tag made it look beautiful (I think it is 🙂 ). More on name tags for the wrapping in the next post. These items are easily available in any craft/stationery shops. Affordable and an elegant gift wrapping. It does not take much time and gives us a full satisfaction at the end. Here is the recipe for Nan Khatai.

NAN KHATAI | BUTTER BISCUITS

Creamy airy crispy biscuits made out of butter and flour.

Prep time: 5 mins | Cook time: 23 Mins Inactive Time 20 Mins| Total time: ~ 1 Hr | Serves: 16-17 no's

Ingredients

1 Cup + ¼ Tbsp Butter
½ Cup Confectioners sugar
1 Cup All Purpose Flour
¼ tsp Baking powder
¼ tsp Cardamom powder
⅛ tsp Salt
5-6 no's Almonds, broken roughly into pieces

Instructions

Bring butter to room temperature. It should be softened but should not start melting. Cream butter and sugar. Keep it aside.
Sieve all purpose flour, cardamom powder, baking powder and salt.
In batches, 3 to 4, fold in the flour mixture with the creamed butter and sugar. Once it gathers together knead it into a huge ball. Knead it very gently.
Set this for about 20 minutes by covering it in a plastic wrap or in an air tight bowl.
Then divide it into two big portions. Make small balls (¼" dia) , approximately 17-18 can be made with this amount.
Place them in a parchment lined baking sheet, with enough space in between them. In each ball, insert 1 or 2 pieces almonds based on how big it is.
Bake them at 300F for about 23 minutes. Remove them and keep it aside for 5 minutes. If you touch them as soon as it comes out of the oven, it will be very soft and it might break.
After 5 minutes, transfer them to a cooling rack and allow it to cool completely. Then transfer it to a air tight container.

This is for the first day of BM under Misc/Crafts theme. Check out the other Blog Marathoners here.

Comments

veena krishnakumar says
May 02, 2013 at 1:28 pm
Perfect edible gifts!!!
Preeti Garg says
May 02, 2013 at 12:28 pm
lovely goodies and cookis beg
Archana Potdar says
April 30, 2013 at 5:19 pm
Beautiful gifts. As for you joining blogging world its just great. Loved meeting you.
Manju says
April 30, 2013 at 3:02 am
Perfect goodies, Can I have one bag.
Srivalli says
April 26, 2013 at 9:59 am
Aah..so nice to read about your entry into blogging..:)..I am glad you did, cos we would surely have missed your wonderful talents!.. and yes these edible gifting is a great thing..you can showcase your cooking to the best!..those packings look great Nisha..
The Pumpkin Farm says
April 26, 2013 at 4:04 am
very pretty way to gift wrap them, looks beautiful
Suma Gandlur says
April 26, 2013 at 3:51 am
Lovely cookies and gift wrapping.
Rajani S says
April 26, 2013 at 2:13 am
Edible gifts are indeed great. I am looking forward to this series :-). The pictures are lovely and I am happy you are comfortable in the BM group
Pavani N says
April 25, 2013 at 11:20 pm
Lovely post, Nisha. Made me go back in time to THAT day.. It was so much fun. I still have that bag, I washed it and saved it for later use 🙂 Thank you for sharing the cookie recipe as well.
Harini-Jaya Rupanagudi says
April 25, 2013 at 1:16 pm
That is a really awesome gift! The presentation is beautiful and impressive!
Priya Suresh says
April 25, 2013 at 11:28 am
Beautifully wrapped, those butter biscuits looks wonderful and prefect to give as a gift.
Pick A Dine says
April 25, 2013 at 7:14 am
Butter Biscuits are very Yummy........and the packing and Photography was Fabulous.
Foodiliciousnan says
April 25, 2013 at 5:08 am
It is definitely a wonderful idea top gift homemade stuff. The packaging looks very good indeed and the cookies look melt in the mouth 🙂

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