Hello Foodies

How are you all? I hope you are doing well.Today I want to share an easy homemade cookies recipe with you. Cookies from stores can be quite expensive, especially butter cookies. So I thought, why not make them at home? We can make fresh and clean cookies at home with simple ingredients.
These cookies turned out really tasty, and my family really loved them. So I thought I should share the recipe with you all.

Ingredients

Butter – a little more than ½ cup
Powdered sugar – about 1 cup
Eggs – 2
Vanilla essence
Flour
Baking powder
A little salt
Cocoa powder
Yellow food color
Walnuts
Fig jam
Chocolate chips

Preparing the Dough

First, I took a little more than half a cup of butter in a bowl. I used my white measuring cup for the measurement.Then I added 2 eggs. At first, I was planning to make only a small batch, so I thought I would use just one egg. But my family loves cookies, so I changed my mind and decided to make a bigger batch. That is why I used two eggs.

I also added about one cup of powdered sugar and a little vanilla essence.I beat everything really well until the mixture became light and slightly whitish in color.

After beating it well, I placed the mixture in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes so that it could become cold again.After 30 minutes, I took it out of the refrigerator and added the flour and baking powder. You can also add a little salt at this stage.

Then I started kneading everything together. Keep kneading until everything comes together and you have a smooth cookie dough.

Making Different Cookie Doughs

Once the dough was ready, I divided it into three portions.
To one portion, I added cocoa powder and kneaded it well. This gave me a beautiful brown chocolate dough.To the second portion, I added a little yellow food color and kneaded it until the dough became yellow.I kept the third portion plain.

Now our cookie dough was ready, and it was time for my favorite part—making different shapes and designs
I really enjoy this part because I love making different shapes and trying new designs. I had so much fun making these cookies.

Flower-Shaped Cookies 🌸

For the first design, I made beautiful flower-shaped cookies.
I divided the plain dough into five or six small portions and rolled them into small balls. Then I took a small portion of the brown cocoa dough, rolled it into a ball and placed it in the center.

I arranged the plain dough balls around the chocolate dough and shaped everything like a flower.I also made another version using the chocolate dough around the outside and the plain dough in the center. They looked so beautiful after shaping.

Spoon-Shaped Cookies

For the second design, I took some dough, rolled it and shaped it with the help of a spoon.I pressed and shaped the dough carefully to give it a simple but pretty design.It was very easy, and I really liked how these cookies turned out.

Three-Color Cookies

For another design, I took a little yellow dough, some brown cocoa dough and some plain dough.I rolled all three into long pieces and placed them together. Then I combined them and cut them into small pieces.After that, I pressed and shaped them from both sides to create a beautiful pattern.The combination of the three colors looked really nice.

Walnut and Jam Cookies 🌰

Then I thought of making some walnut cookies, because these are one of my family's favorites. We often order this type of biscuit from the bakery, so I thought, why not try making them at home?

For these, I took a cupcake/muffin tray and placed a piece of dough inside each cavity. I pressed the dough and shaped it like a small bowl.For the filling, I crushed some walnuts and mixed them with a little jam. You can use any jam you like. I had some fig jam at home, so I used that.I filled the cookie shells with the walnut and jam mixture.I made around five or six walnut-filled cookies this way.

Chocolate Chip Cookies 🍫

I also made some simple cookies without any filling and some brown chocolate cookies.For the chocolate ones, I added white chocolate chips on top. They looked really cute and tasted delicious.

Final Result

And finally, all my cookies were ready
You can see that I made many different shapes and designs from the same basic dough. Some were flower-shaped, some were two-color cookies, some had three colors, and some were filled with walnuts and fig jam.

They turned out crispy, delicious and really enjoyable. My family loved them, and I was very happy with the result.
I especially enjoyed making the different designs. For me, that was the most fun part of this recipe.

If you love homemade cookies, I definitely recommend trying this recipe. They are perfect with a cup of tea or coffee, and you can make different shapes according to your own choice.
If you try my recipe, please let me know how you liked it. I would love to hear your feedback.
Thank you so much for reading! ❤️🍪