
1.
Nankhatai
These butter-loaded delicacies will make you feel like there is a party in your mouth.
Ingredients
- One cup all-purpose flour
- One fourth cup semolina
- 2/3 cup of powdered sugar
- 2/3 cup of clarified butter
- Four ground cardamom
- Pista flakes for garnishing
Method
- Beat the sugar and clarified butter until they are combined
- Sift all dry ingredients
- Add all the dry ingredients to the wet mixture and combine
- Knead to a soft dough
- Make round balls and flatten them into a disc shape
- Top them with pista or almond flakes
- Bake them in a pre-heated oven for 30 minutes at 180C
- Let them cool
- Store them in an airtight container, and it will last for a month.

2.
Coconut Cookies
The nutty taste of coconuts which will complement the sugary sweetness of the cookies.
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- A pinch of baking powder
- A pinch of salt
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- A few drops of vanilla essence
- 1/4th cup dry, desiccated coconut
- ½ cup of softened butter
Method
- Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt
- Beat the butter until it’s light and add sugar to it
- Add the dry ingredients to the butter
- Add the desiccated coconut
- Knead to form a soft dough
- Roll it out on a greased platform in ½” thickness
- Cut out with cookies cutters
- Bake in a preheated oven at 180C for 18 minutes.

3.
Chocolate Nankhatai
Pamper your taste buds with the perfect blend of a traditional biscuit with chocolate. A match made in heaven!
Ingredients
- One cup all-purpose flour
- ¼ cup cocoa powder
- ½ cup fine sugar
- ½ cup clarified butter
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- One tablespoon chocolate chips for topping
Method
- Sift the cocoa powder to ensure there are no lumps
- Mix the baking powder and all purpose flour and combine well
- Add sugar and butter and mix it together
- Knead for five minutes
- Add one teaspoon of milk if the dough is dry
- Make small balls and flatten them
- Press a few chocolate chips on each ball of dough
- Bake the nan khatai in a preheated oven at 180C for 15-18 minutes
![Chocolate Nankhatai - Recipe]()
4.
Shortbread Cookies
These melt-in-your-mouth cookies will give you a taste of heaven.
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 75-gram butter
- 1/3 cup sugar
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla essence
Method
- Melt the butter and add powdered sugar to it
- Beat the butter until it becomes aerated
- Add vanilla essence
- Add the all purpose flour and combine it all together
- Do not over-knead
- Let the dough rest in a cool place for one hour
- Make medium sized balls from the dough and slightly flatten them
- Assemble them on a lightly greased baking tray
- Bake them in a preheated oven at 200C for 12 minutes.
![Shortbread Cookies - Recipe]()
5.
Almond Cookies
Almonds will add a healthy crunch to your sinful indulgence.
Ingredients
- One cup of all-purpose flour
- ½ cup almonds
- ¾ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon almond essence
- ½ cup confectioners sugar
- 1 tablespoon milk
Method
- Blend the almonds into a coarse powder in a mixer grinder
- Sift the all purpose flour and baking powder thrice
- Beat the butter and sugar in a separate bowl
- Add almond essence and milk
- Add the dry ingredients and knead to form a dough
- Make round balls and flatten them to form cookies
- Place them on a tray lined with parchment paper
- Bake for 15 minutes in a preheated oven at 200C
![Almond Cookies - Recipe]()
6.
Gingernut cookies
A perfect match between the spicy taste of ginger and the sweet goodness of cookies.
Ingredients
- 5 cups of all-purpose flour
- ½ cup of brown sugar
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 1/3 cup of butter
- 2 tablespoons golden syrup
- One teaspoon ginger powder (saunth)
Method
- Beat together butter, golden syrup, and brown sugar
- Sift all-purpose flour, baking powder and ginger powder thrice
- Combine the wet ingredients with the dry ingredients
- Knead it into a hard dough
- Grease the baking tray
- Pinch out medium sized balls from the dough and flatten them
- Place them on the baking tray at some distance from each other
- Bake the cookies in a preheated oven at 180 C for 15 minutes
![Gingernut Cookies - Recipe]()
7.
Cumin Cookies
Also known as jeera biscuits, these taste awesome with tea.
Ingredients
- One cup all-purpose flour
- 1/3 cup butter
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon cumin
Method
- Lightly roast cumin in a pan
- Crush it coarsely and keep it aside
- Take softened butter and add powdered sugar to it
- Add all purpose flour in batches and mix till combined
- Add the crushed cumin and knead it for 2 minutes
- Dust the rolling surface with some flour
- Roll out the dough to .5cm thickness
- Cut out cookies with cutters
- Place them on a greased tray
- Bake at 180C for 15 minutes
![Cumin Cookies - Recipe]()
8.
Tutti Frutti Cookies
An all-time favorite of kids also called Karachi biscuits
Ingredients
- 1 cups All-purpose flour
- ¼ cup of corn flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ cup superfine sugar
- ½ cup butter
- ½ teaspoon mixed fruit essence
- Three tablespoons of tutti-frutti
- One tablespoon milk
Method
- Sift All purpose flour, corn flour, and baking powder
- Mix in the sugar
- Add butter and incorporate it into the flour until it looks like wet sand
- Add milk and bring the dough together
- Do not knead
- Shape it into a log and cover it tightly with cling film
- Refrigerate overnight
- Preheat the oven at 180C
- Take the cookie dough log out and cut in in thick slices
- Place each slice on a greased baking tray
- Bake for 20 minutes
![Tutti Frutti Cookies - Recipe]()
9.
Peanut Butter Cookies
Why stick to just boring Peanut Butter sandwiches when you can make more?
Ingredients
- 1/4cup peanut butter
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- 4 tablespoon shortening or vanaspati
- Two tablespoon broken peanuts
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees
- Put peanut butter, shortening, and sugar in a mixing bowl
- Beat it until it’s creamy and light
- Add the flour and mix it well
- Sprinkles crushed peanuts
- Knead it into a soft dough
- Make small balls and flatten them
- Put them on a greased baking tray
- Bake it for 20 minutes at 180C
![Peanut Butter Cookies - Recipe]()
10.
Walnut cookies
The omega acids rich nuts enveloped in the warmth of a sugary cookie.
Ingredients
- One cup all-purpose flour
- ½ cup confectioners sugar
- ½ cup butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla syrup
- ¼ cups lightly crushed walnuts
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
Method
- Preheat the oven at 160C
- In a bowl sift the all-purpose flour and baking powder
- In another bowl beat the butter and then add sugar to it
- Mix the vanilla syrup
- Add walnuts and sifted flour
- Knead well for a minute
- Make round balls and run a fork over them to give the cookies a criss-cross pattern
- Bake for 20-25 minutes
![Walnut cookies - Recipe]()
11.
Raisins and Orange cookies
The citric tartness of oranges and the sugary sweetness of raisins coming together as one.
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ¼ cup sugar
- 75-gram butter
- ½ teaspoon orange essence
- Orange zest (to taste)
- ½ cup chopped raisins
Method
- Preheat oven at 200C for ten minutes
- Add softened butter and sugar in a mixing bowl
- Beat well
- Add vanilla and mix it well
- Add flour and form a soft dough
- Add raisins and orange zest and mix them uniformly
- Shape it into a log and wrap it in cling film
- Refrigerate for 2 hours
- Cut them in slices and bake on a greased tray for 15 minutes
![Raisins and Orange cookies - Recipe]()
12.
Cinnamon cookies
These cinnamon cookies that will make you drool.
Ingredients
- 1 cup refined flour
- 1/3 cup butter
- One teaspoon cinnamon powder
- ¼ cup sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
Method
- Take flour and cinnamon powder in a bowl and whisk it.
- Beat the butter and sugar in a separate bowl
- Add the flour to the butter and sugar mixture
- Gently mix it until it becomes a dough
- Roll the dough on a greased counter top to ¼ inch thickness
- Use a cookie cutter to cut out cookies
- Place it on a greased baking tray
- Bake these cookies in a preheated oven at 180C for 22 minutes
![Cinnamon cookies - Recipe]()
13.
Chocolate Chip Cookies
No list would be ever complete without the inclusion of this chocolatey goodness. It tastes best when eaten with milk.
Ingredients
- 1 cup refined flour
- One tablespoon cornflour
- 100ml condensed milk/mithai mate
- ¾ cup butter
- 1/3 cup dark chocolate chips
- ½ teaspoon Chocolate essence
Method
- Sift flour and baking soda in a bowl
- Beat condensed milk with butter in a separate bowl
- Add dry ingredients and vanilla essence
- Combine it well
- Add chocolate chips and lightly mix the dough
- Cover the dough and place it in the fridge to refrigerate for an hour
- Shape the dough into small balls
- Place the flattened balls on a greased baking tray
- Bake the cookies for 20 minutes in a preheated oven at 180C
![Chocolate Chip Cookies - Recipe]()
14.
Cornflakes Cookies
The best way to start a day is a breakfast of cornflakes cookies.
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ½ cup butter at room temperature
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- ½ cups corn flakes
Method:
- Preheat the oven to 180C
- Coarsely crush the cornflakes and keep them aside
- Beat the butter and powdered sugar until it is fluffy
- Mix vanilla essence and mix it well
- Add baking powder and all purpose flour and combine it together
- Knead it to a soft dough
- Make small balls from dough
- Roll the balls in cornflakes and gently press them
- Bake them on a greased tray for 20 minutes
![Cornflakes Cookies - Recipe]()
15.
Cashew Butter Cookies
Rich and delicious cookies.
Ingredients
- 1 cup plain flour
- 1/3 cup powdered sugar
- 1/3 cup butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- 2 teaspoon milk
- 2table spoon cashews
Method
- Preheat oven to 180C
- Beat butter and sugar with a whisk until they become creamed well.
- Add vanilla essence
- Add the flour and mix well
- If the dough is not coming together add some milk
- Fold in chopped cashew nuts
- Roll the dough into a log and cut it into round disks
- Place cookies on baking tray
- Bake at 180C for 20 minutes
![Cashew Butter Cookies - Recipe]()
16.
Gems Cookies
You are never too old for Gems and definitely never too old for Gems cookies.
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ¼ cup butter
- 1/3 cup sugar
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- 2 tablespoon gems
Method
- Preheat the oven.
- In a mixing bowl sieve refined flour and baking powder
- In the second bowl beat egg and sugar until creamy.
- Add vanilla essence.
- Add ingredients in the first bowl to the second bowl
- Mix them well
- Makes small balls of dough and press gems on them
- Place the cookies on a greased baking tray
- Bake them for 20 minutes
![Gems Cookies - Recipe]()
17.
Honey Oats cookies
Honey and oats are the healthiest ingredients to make a guilt-free cookie.
Ingredients-
- 1 cup refined flour
- ½ cup butter
- 1 cup rolled oats
- ½ cup honey
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
Method
- Preheat the oven to 200C
- Mix oats and plain flour in a bowl
- In the second bowl, mix honey and butter and beat it well
- Add all the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and combine it
- Roll the dough parts into small balls and place them on the baking sheet
- Bake for 15-18 minutes
![Honey Oats cookies - Recipe]()
18.
Sprinkles Cookies
Everything tastes better with SPRINKLES!
Ingredients
- 1 cup refined flour
- ¾ cup butter
- ¼ cup oil
- 1 cup rainbow sprinkles
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup honey
- Two teaspoons vanilla essence
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
Method
- Preheat the oven to 350C
- Mix the flour, baking soda and salt in a bowl
- In the second bowl, combine butter, oil, sugar and beat it well
- Add the dry flour mix to the wet ingredients and combine it
- Now add the vanilla essence and honey and mix until the dough comes together
- Roll the dough parts into small balls and press the sprinkles on them
- Place them on the baking tray
- Bake for 20 minutes
![Sprinkles Cookies - Recipe]()
19.
Fruit And Nut Cookies
Styled like the perfect fruit & Nut cake, but only as a cookie.
Ingredients
- 1 cup refined flour
- ¾ cup butter
- ¼ cup oil
- ¼ cup shredded coconut
- ¼ cup dates
- ¼ cup sliced almonds
- ¼ cup pistachio
- ¼ cup raisins
- ¼ cup peanuts
- ½ cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla essence
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
Method
- Preheat the oven to 350C
- Mix the flour, salt, and baking soda in a bowl
- In the second bowl, combine butter, oil, sugar and beat it until it turns fluffy
- Add the vanilla essence
- Combine the dry flour mix with the wet ingredients
- Stir in the coconut, almond, date, pistachio, peanuts, and raisins
- Roll the dough parts into small balls
- Place them on the baking tray
- Bake for 20 minutes
![Fruit And Nut Cookies - Recipe]()
20.
Atta Biscuits
The plain old biscuits because sometimes it is the little things that bring joy.
Ingredients
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- ¾ cup caster sugar
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon Vanilla essence
- ½ cup oil
- One tablespoon milk
Method
- Preheat oven at 180C
- Mix oil, sugar, and vanilla in a bowl and beat it
- Add all the dry ingredients and mix
- Add the milk and knead it as a dough
- Make them as small balls and flatten them
- Cook for 10 to 12 minutes
![Atta Biscuits - Recipe]()



















































