Recipe : Rose Cookies (Christmas Sweet)

Ruelha

This dish looks very simple and the ingredients also are very few and humble. But, don’t be fooled. It is not an amateur level dish. It takes some culinary understanding to be able to make rose cookies successfully. So, always attempt with a very small batch. Don’t be overambitious….unless you’re one of those gifted humans bestowed with the magic of perfection from the gods of sugar and spice.😉 Oh…and that’s not sarcasm. Such men and women do exist. But they are rather rare. I appear on the other end of the spectrum though. I really struggled in the beginning when I just got introduced to knives and utensils …and my ‘beginning’ lasted way too long.🤭🙊

Ingredients: makes 55 medium cookies approximately

  • 250 gms maida/all purpose flour
  • 2 eggs (optional, but preferable)
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 4 tbsp+ powdered sugar (sugar caramelizes and looks ghastly if you add more. These cookies are not meant to be overtly sweet but you can add some more if you prefer it sweeter an darker)
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1tbsp rose essence/1 tsp vanilla essence
  • Water, as required
  • Cooking oil for deep frying

Method:

Beat the eggs well with milk, sugar and water and keep aside for about 30minutes for the lumps to settle and dissolve.

Add more water if required to adjust the consistency. It must be smooth and a little runny as compared to dosa batter but not as runny as neer dosa batter. Mix the cooking/baking soda in this batter nicely.

This is what a cookie dye looks like. Mine is an aluminium one. I suggest you get a heavier one as compared to the skinny ones because they heat up more evenly and won’t burn the cookies. So fill up your kadhai with a decent quantity of oil. Heat it up on a very gentle flame. Keep the dye inserted in the hot oil. Make sure you balance it well. Please exercise extreme caution.

Once the dye is hot, insert it into the batter but cover only 3/4th of the dye. If you press/push/insert the dye completely into the batter and cover the top as well, your cookie will cook over the dye itself and get stuck and trapped on the dye
The batter will form a semi cooked thin layer around the dye. Remove from the batter bowl and place immediately into the hot oil.
It will sizzle and begin leaving the dye as it cooks.
You can use a fork to help loosen it in case it gets stuck on the dye.
Cook one side properly. Then flip it and cook the other side as well. Don’t let it brown or burn. Just a little beige-gold hue is perfect.
Repeat the same process until you finish the batter.
Remember to keep the dye inserted in the hot oil before you begin with a new cookie.
Be careful not to brown or burn your cookies. Always use a gentle flame/heat setting only.

I hope you enjoy cooking and eating/serving this dish.

-RUELHA 
www.ruelha.com 
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25 Comments

  6. Rose Cookies
    For Christmas
    Yum
    Yum
    i See the
    FLoWeRS
    Yet
    How
    Will
    Christmas
    Rose Cookies
    Be Complete

    With

    No

    THorns

    Like An

    Ever

    Green

    Tree With
    No LiGHTS

    Or

    DarK
    To Fully
    Inhale
    And Exhale

    True LiGHT

    Out of DarK

    Anyway

    Merry

    Christmas

    Rue SeaSons

    Greetings

    Ocean

    Whole

    Love

    Water

    Waves True

    Rose Cookies Full🎄

    Seeing Skies

    Clear

    CHaSinG

    Away Winter

    Icy 🥶 Blues Too

    Clearly in 2020 Vision🌲

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    1. Fredddddddddddd
      Tis the season to be jolly…..
      Merry Christmas to you and Katie….
      Have a wonderful Christmas filled with an abundance of love peace and joy….🙏🏼✝️🙏🏼☃️🌸🎁🤩

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      1. Hehe There is only
        One other Person
        Who Has Ever
        Called Me
        Freddddddddddd
        With Ten D’s This Way
        And That is My Other
        Kind Indian FRiEnD
        HiMali When i Was
        Celebrating my
        Love For Katrina
        With The Song
        ‘Still The One’
        By Orleans
        Jain And
        Unencumbered
        By Arranged Marriage
        Her Frustration Asking
        Me How Will She
        Ever Find Her
        Forever
        One

        SMiLes i Still
        Always Tell Her
        Since That Valentine’s

        Day Two Years

        Ago You

        Will Find

        This Forever

        Love Breathing

        Within Currently

        Now As She Approaches

        30 She is Taking

        A Sabbatical

        Away From

        The Attention

        Of People

        To Seek

        And Find

        This Forever

        Flower Within

        SMiLes Dear

        Rue Reminds

        Me Of The Story

        Of Your Retreat

        That You Are

        Still Writing Now

        Yet You See

        You Two

        Women

        Are

        Fortunate

        As It Took Me

        Until 47

        And

        66 Months

        To Find My

        Way Out

        Of Hell

        For my Forever

        Christmas

        Day

        At

        53 Years

        Of Age

        Same

        Day At 60

        Years 6 Months

        And the 18th

        Day i

        Am

        Sharing

        With You

        On Christmas Eve

        Indeed No Matter

        Jain Noted As the

        Least Violent

        Religion of

        The World Islam

        Noted As The Religion

        Of Peace And

        Christianity

        Noted As

        The Religion

        Of Love

        For You

        See It is The

        Essence of Non-Violence

        Peace And Love

        Breathing

        Within

        Yes All Grace

        Making Love

        Will

        And
        Strength

        Possible

        This Essence

        Of God Within

        To Seek

        And

        Find

        For Lovemas

        To Last Forever

        Now Still ‘the One’

        To Give And Share Free

        Indeed

        This

        Love

        Verily God

        With SMiLes🙏🌲

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        1. Still the one..I’m thinking OF Shania Twain….
          I’m glad she is taking time out to figure out…..sometimes that’s all you need. Giving love….breathing love and smiles….way to go Fred🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼✝️🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

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