checkerboard cookies

checkerboard cookies

First time when i saw this cookies in baking obsession i thought "oh my god "this is very tough i cannot do this for sure. But for the second time i saw this cookies in "Gayathiri cookspot" with all necessary steps, i thought i can give a try so i have tried this cookie. But i dint get the perfect shape still i have to improvise.

Ingredients

For chocolate dough

Flour	1 ¼ cup
Baking powder	¼ tsp
Cocoa powder	¼ cup
Salt	A pinch
Butter	½ cup
Vanilla essence	1 tsp
Curd	¼ cup
Baking soda	A pinch

For vanilla dough         

Flour	11/2 cup
Baking powder	¼ tsp
Salt	A pinch
Butter	½ cup
Sugar	½ cup
Vanilla	1 tsp
Curd	¼ cup
Baking soda	A pinch

Method

Vanilla dough

1. take a bowl mix flour,baking powder and salt.
2. Beat butter and sugar well.
3. Add baking soda in the curd and leave it for 5 minutes. After 5 minutes you can see bubbles in that add that mixture to the butter mixture.
4. Add dry ingredients to the butter mixture stir well.
5. Shape into asquare and cover it in a cling wrap and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.

 Chocolate dough

1. In a bowl mix flour,baking powder,cocoa powder and salt.
2. Beat sugar and butter well.
3. Add baking soda in the curd and wait for 5 mts .Once the bubbles appear covert this mixture to the butter mixture.
4. In the butter mixture add all the dry ingredients.
5. Shape in to square and refrigirate for at least 2 hours.

Checker board cookie arrangement

1.  Take vanilla dough, cut it into  two equal parts.Take one part and refrigerate the other half.
2. With this half ,first shape in to rectangle and cut it into 9 equal stripes and refrigerate.
3. Take chocolate dough cut it into two equal parts,take one half and refrigerate the other.
4. With the first half roll in into rectangle and cut 9 equal stripes and refrigerate.
5. For checker board arrangement place one vanilla strip in between two chocolate strip as the base layer, then place one chocolate strip in between two vanilla strip as the second layer and refrigerate.
6. Then take the other half of vanilla dough,roll it in to square and place the block with more chocolate stripes in the middle and wrap the vanilla dough around the chocolate block and seal it and refrigerate.
7.  Repeat the same procedure for other half of vanilla strips and seal it with chocolate dough .One block should contain 9 alternative strips thats the procedure.

Enjoy this cookies as a evening snack......................................................