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Recipe: Taruna's Bakery-Style Karachi Biscuits

Last updated on: September 14, 2022 14:22 IST

Baking those square, melt-in-your-mouth biscuits made famous by Hyderabad's Karachi Bakery is easier than you'd think.

Make a batch of Karachi Biscuits, also known as the Fruit and Nut Biscuits or Tutti Frutti Biscuits, with Taruna Deepak's recipe.

Ideal for dunking in a steaming hot cup of coffee or chai, they are great teatime delights -- the addition of candied fruits and nuts make these biscuits delish.

Turn out a batch on the weekend, so your family can enjoy these fruity biscuits through the week.

Taruna, a food blogger, says most of the recipes on her blog are either her own or those passed down to her by her mom. But the most important lesson her mother taught her was to 'cook with passion and serve with love'.

Photograph: Kind courtesy Taruna Deepak

Karachi Biscuits

Servings: 24 pieces

Ingredients

Method

Editor's Note: Taruna prefers to use Foster Clarks brand of custard powder.

Vegans may substitute butter with cashew butter in this recipe.

For gluten-free biscuits, you could use oat flour.

Taruna puts 1 tsp rose essence1 in her biscuits. Rose essence is a strong flavouring and may not be to everyone's liking, so either add sparingly or skip or use pineapple essence. The biscuits will be just as good without either essence given they have vaniilla flavouring too.

 

Taruna Deepak lives in Mumbai and is the creator of the food blog Easyfoodsmith.

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