Snow Men Butter Cookies

This month's Home Baker's Challenge was hosted by Priya of Cook Like Priya. As December is the month of Christmas, she had suggested three cookies recipes, two cakes and two bread recipes. We were to choose any of the given recipes. I loved the look of this snow man cookie and so I tried it out. It was very colourful, crispy and very delicious. My daughter loved them. It was full of butter flavour and my house was so aromatic when these cute cookies were baking in the oven. It is a very easy dough but you need a lot of patience to make the figurines. The given recipe yields more than 20 cookies. 

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Eggless Christmas Pudding

Christmas pudding is a steamed rich fruit pudding served during the dinner on Christmas. I have read about the Christmas pudding in an Agatha Christie novel in which Poirot visits a house during Christmas and solves a mystery. The ruby which he came in search of would be found in one of the puddings served on Christmas. I never thought that I will be making Christmas pudding. When I was going through my book shelf I saw this novel and decided on doing it at home. Traditionally pudding has eggs, suet ( a type of fat from animals) and alcohol. I decided to make an eggless, suet free, alcohol free pudding at home. I saw a vegetarian version of the pudding at Titli's Kitchen but still it had eggs. So I adapted Titli's recipe according to my preference and ended with  a flavourful, delicious, moist, rich pudding. This is steamed for 6 hours and once cool you need to remove it from the mould. I am having this pudding mould for so many years but never once used it. And finally it came to use and I am so so happy for recreating this in my kitchen.

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Eggless French Yule Log/ Buche de Noel

Yule log is long and hard log burned during traditional  Christmas and Yule celebrations. This cake is related to the log and is made for Christmas. It is called as Buche De Noel and the recipe has a lots of eggs to get the perfect sponge. This was suggested by Tanushree of Ma Niche along with so many other drool worthy recipes. This has been in my to do list for long and so I chose to do it for this month's Baking Partner's Challenge. Making the eggless sponge for the roll was a challenge. I have tried so many recipes in the past but always end with a cracky roll. So this time I googled for a perfect eggless sponge sheet and I came across one at Artisan Vegan Life. For the filling I adapted the recipe from Williams- Sonama and both the recipes came out really well...

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Eggless Sugar Cookies with Buttercream Icing

Wishing All My Readers A Merry Christmas!!

Yesterday I planned on making these cookies but couldn't finish it with so many other works. I made the dough yesterday and refrigerated the slabs for a whole day. Today I made a batch of two dozen cookies in the morning but couldn't find time to frost as I had some guests. I had the recipe of buttercream icing pinned on my Pinterest Board and finally after lunch, I decided to make a small quantity of the icing to frost the two dozen cookies. My BIL visited us with his family and this made a nice after lunch treat for them. I frosted the cookies and hurriedly took some snaps and then served them for the guests. The whole plate vanished within 1/2 an hour and I was so so happy. Hubby dear didn't even get a cookie to taste. As I have one more batch of dough in the fridge, I am planning to make it tomorrow. 

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Eggless Christmas Bakes

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