Nipatt (Indian Spicy Cookie)

Baked Nipatt

Ingredients:
1cup All purpose flour (Maida)
1/2cup Onions finely chopped
1-2 Green chillies chopped or 1 tsp red chilli powder
3-4 strands Coriander leaves finely chopped
1/2 cup peanuts coarsely powdered
1/2 tsp sesame seeds
1tsp Baking powder
1tbsp Melted butter
salt to taste
water for making the dough(warm)

Method:
-Preheat the oven to 170* Celcius.
-Mix all the ingredients and make a soft dough.
-Divide into small balls and pat a little and make it of cracker thickness and bake them for 10-12minutes. [Bake for 2-5 minutes more if you need it crispier]

Fried Nipatt:

Ingredients:
1 cup rice flour
1/2 cup peanuts coarsely powdered
1/2cup Onions finely chopped
3-4 strands coriander leaves finely chopped
1/2 tsp sesame seeds
1-2 Green chillies chopped or 1 tsp red chilli powder
Salt
Oil to fry

Method:
-Mix all the ingredients (except oil). Add enough water to make it into a dough.
-Apply some oil to a plastic sheet (or use a wax paper). Make small balls of the dough and flatten them into small discs on the paper.
-Heat oil. Fry the discs till they are crispy.
-Cool to room temperature and then store in air tight container.

Tea Cake

Ingredients:
1kg All purpose flour (Maida)
16-18 Eggs
1-1.25 kg Sugar
1kg unsalted butter
1 tsp Vanilla essence
2-3 tsp Baking powder (as per manufacturer's instructions)

Method:
1.Beat together Eggs, butter, essence and sugar.
2.Continue beating/mixing while adding to it little by little Maida + baking powder mix until all of flour is mixed up.
3.Grease a pan with oil or butter and pour the batter into it to only half its height.
4.Bake it in an oven at 180 degree Celsius for 30-35 minutes.
5.Take out the pan and take a clean knife poke right through the center of the cake and pull it out - if it comes out clean then the cake is completely baked otherwise put it back and bake for 5 more minutes or so... (use your judgement here ;-) )
6.Once baked fully, take out the pan from the oven and keep it aside to cool. Then keep a plate on top, invert the pan to get the cake out after cooled. ;) Voila your tea cake is ready.

Variation:
To the above if you can add:
1.Any food color to get a different cake
2.Cocoa to get chocolate cake
3.Plums, raisins, dry fruits and caramel mix to get Christmas cake ;)