The recipe I tried in so many baking pans, eventually I used 2 6inch pans from Amazon! I had an old silicone mould that wasn’t necessarily good for baking. This dish tastes so Indian and it has the right level of sweetness. The next thing I had to tell you about this dish, is that you need that much of sugar. It is the best east meets west the taste is similar to an almond barfi but a biscuit at the same time!
Almond barfi or how we say it Badam Barfi is one on my favourite sweets! This is as close to it as an Indian sweet I have made on my own. This video especially is close to my heart (tummy too) and is very similar to my grandma’s recipe for butterscotch shortbread. Grind the almonds coarse, don’t put it in a mixer, it needs to be really coarse. Right now I’m writing all this and my last batch is cooling now, waiting for it cool down, so I can enjoy the taste too!
This is also my 100th video recipe! It has been so amazing, some recipes have been a pain in the wrong side! Unfortunately I do not have too many videos of myself goofing out, since I shoot by myself! It has been interesting shooting, editing, making the recipe and as always doing my own voiceovers! Can you all see how many exclamation points I’ve used in this? I’m so stoked!
Almond Biscuit
Ingredients
- 1 and 1/4 cup unsalted room temperature butter
- 10 tablespoons soft brown sugar
- 5 tablespoons white sugar
- 1/2 cup whole almonds coarse ground
- 2 tablespoons Milk and
- Big pinch of saffron or Kesari
- 2 cups flour added in batches
Instructions
Steps to make Badam Biscuit
- Pre heat oven to 180C for 20 minutes
- In a mixing bowl add 1 and 1/4 cup unsalted butter
- Cream the butter
- Add 10 tablespoons soft brown sugar
- Add 5 tablespoons white sugar
- Cream the butter and sugars soft
- Took me around 4 minutes
- In a bowl add 2 tablespoons milk
- Add a big pinch of saffron or kesar and mix
- Let it steep for a while
- Coarse grind 1/2 cup whole almonds
- I did it in around 4-5 batches
- Add the milk and saffron mixture, mix in
- Add the coarse almonds, mix it in
- Add 1 cup of flour or maida
- Mix well, took me 2 minutes
- Add 1/2 a cup more flour, mix it in
- Add 1/2 a cup more flour
- Mix well, till no flour remains
- Add butter paper to a 6inch pan
- Add half the dough into the pan
- Flatten and spread the dough with your fingers
- Using a fork poke holes
- Bake in the oven for 20 minutes
- Bake till golden brown
- Divide the pieces, when it is still soft
- Pop back in the oven for 5 more minutes
- Cool for 30 minutes before serving
- Loosen it from the edges
- Put a plate inverted
- Flip the dish around
- Cover with another plate and flip again
- Cut them slowly and carefully
- Gently serve the biscuits!
