Sugar Cookies

This is my first attempt to bake cookies and I started with basic sugar and butter cookies I made a shape of square but after baking they endup with round I have seen lot of wonderfull and yummy cookies baked by fellow bloggers ,inspired by them and started baking and the final result of my cookies are OKEY
(but not so perfect) and i have taken this recipe from Asha ji's "Foodies hope "

Ingredients :

1 cup all purpose flour, 1/2 tsp baking powder, 1/4 tsp soda, 1/4 tsp salt ,1/2 cup soft butter,1/3 cup sugar ( I used sugar powder) ,1/2 tsp vanilla extract ,1/2 cup chopped cashews ,sugar for sprinkle

Method:

Cream butter and sugar until fluffy , shift all the above dry ingredients

Add the dry ingredients in batches to the creamed butter and sugar mixture

Make a soft dough, divide in to equal parts ,shape as u like ,sprinkle with sugar and cashews and refrigerate for 1/2 hour

Preheat oven to 350 and bake for 12 to 15 min

cool and done .

Tomato Pickle

Ingredients
4 tomatos ( chopped finely)
1 tsp chilli powder
1/2 tsp methi seeds
3 dry red chillis
pinch of hing
1 tsp musturd seeds
pinch of turmuric
5 tbs oil
2 tbs tamarind paste
salt

Method

Heat 1 tbs oil in a pan add chopped tomatos fry for 4 to 5 min mashing with back of spoon in the middle ,HEAT remaining oil in another pan when oil is hot add methi seeds,musturd seeds,red chillis and hing then add mashed tomatos and tamarind paste cook on a low flame for 15 to 2o min until oil is separated completely then add chilli powder and salt cook for another 5 min

cool and store in refrigerator