make some delicious, eggless shortbread cookies with peanut butter, honey, crunch of almonds and added flavor of cardamom!
Course
Snack
Keyword
cookies, snack
Prep Time10minutes
Cook Time30minutes
Total Time40minutes
AuthorPriya Shiva
Ingredients
All purpose flour - 2 cups plus 6 tablespoons295g
Butter - ⅔ cups150g
Peanut butter - ½ cup125g
Sugar - ¼ cup50g
Honey - ¼ cup85g
Green cardamom - 4
Almonds - 10
Milk - 2 tbsp
Instructions
Add almonds and cardamom pods in your mortar and pestle and crush it nicely.
Preheat the oven to 375°F (190°C) and line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
Place butter in a microwave safe bowl and microwave until it starts to melt. Add peanut butter and whisk together until smooth. Now add sugar and honey and mix well.
Stir in flour, milk, crushed almonds, cardamom to make a soft dough. You can use your hands to bring the dough together.
Roll the dough using a rolling pin to about ⅓ inch thickness. Cut into shapes with cookie cutters.
Sprinkle some sugar on top of the cookies , transfer to the baking sheet and bake for 10 minutes or until edges start to get golden. Cool on the baking sheet as cookies before transferring to a wire rack.
Keep them in an air-tight cookie jar for about 2 weeks.
Recipe Notes
Add extra milk if you feel cookie dough is too stiff to roll. Do not make the dough sticky.