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Karachi biscuits are famous tea-time cookies from India. They come from a region called Hyderabad in India, and originated in a bakery that goes by the same name "Karachi Bakery".
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These are not just available in India but are also sold worldwide and you can easily find them in any Indian grocery store or nowadays even online.
They are also called tutti-frutti biscuits or fruit biscuits and are totally eggless. The tutti-frutti are made from candied dried papaya.
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They are perfectly sweet, crunchy, melt in your mouth delicious cookies with an enticing bite of tutti-frutti.
Made with simple ingredients like butter, sugar, all-purpose flour, custard powder and seasoned with cardamom and pineapple or rose extract these are very easy to make.
Karachi Biscuits / Tutti-Frutti Biscuits / Fruit Biscuits
Equipment
- Stand Mixer / Hand Mixer
- Paddle Attachment
- Spatula
- Cling wrap
- Knife
- baking tray
- Oven / OTG / Convection Microwave
- Sifter
Ingredients
- ¾ cup Unsalted Butter at room temperature
- 1.5 cups All-purpose flour
- ¾ cup Tutti-Frutti
- 4 tablespoon Custard Powder
- ¼ teaspoon Cardamom powder
- ⅛ teaspoon Salt
- ¾ teaspoon Pineapple extract
- ½ cup Powder/Granulated sugar
- 2 tablespoon Powder/Granulated sugar
Instructions
- Ingredients
- In a bowl sift together all-purpose flour, salt, cardamom powder and custard powder.
- In a stand mixer bowl or a regular big bowl take butter and sugar.
- Beat it using a paddle attachment or hand mixer until its light and fluffy/creamy. Usually it would take 4 to 5 mins. If you are using hand mixer remember to scrape down the sides of the bowl in between.
- Add Pineapple essence and mix it in.
- Add the sifted flour mix and tutti-frutti to the butter-sugar mixture.
- Mix everything till well combined. If needed add a teaspoon of room temperature butter.
- If you are using hand mixer, after combining everything use your hands to bring everything together to make dough ball.
- Divide the dough in 2 equal portions.
- On a work surface sprinkle some all-purpose flour. Put the dough on it and roll it to form a log / cylinder shape.
- Wrap the rolled dough logs tightly in a cling wrap.
- Refrigerate the dough logs for minimum 2 hrs. I refrigerate mine overnight unless I am in hurry to bake them.
- Pre-heat the oven at 350 F/ 175 C.
- Line the baking tray with parchment paper.
- Take out the dough logs. Unwarp them and cut into ¼ inch thick cookies.
- Place the biscuits at least an inch space apart as the expand while baking.
- Bake them for 14-16 mins. (Every oven has different heat settings so I would advice you to check at 12 mins)
- The biscuits should be lightly browned at bottom and still soft when you get them out of oven.
- Remove from oven and let them cool completely. Once cooled the biscuits will harden and become crisp.
Notes
- Use the custard powder to match the essence. I once used mango custard and hence used mango essence.
- If you like crisp crunchy biscuits, bake it for 16 - 18 minutes.
- You can reduce the quantity of tutti-frutti if you feel you don't want too much of them in the biscuits.
- The texture of the biscuits depends upon baking time as well as thickness of the biscuits.
- Do not melt the butter to make the dough. Always use room temperature butter for correct output.
- You can replace custard powder with corn flour.
Sudan Palkar
Lovely.
prajakta.palkar
Thank you
Pradeep Chitre
Appearing very tempting exactly like Hyderabad karachi wala bakery biscuits.
prajakta.palkar
Thank you so much
Surabhi
I love these biscuits. Making them at home sounds like a great idea. Thanks for sharing the details and recipe.
prajakta.palkar
Yes Surabhi, do try this recipe. Its very easy to make and the result is very delicious.
Mangal Palkar
Owsome
prajakta.palkar
Thank you
Jen @ JENRON DESIGNS
These look so good and the addition of Tutti Frutti sounds interesting. I can not wait to give this recipe a try, around the holidays as they are so festive looking.
prajakta.palkar
Yes they are perfect for holiday times. Tutti frutti gives them a very good taste and texture.
Digitaldaybook
I love a good tea or coffee biscuit!
prajakta.palkar
Thanks
the joyous living
i love tea biscuits. these look so delicious. love the choice to add fruit since it adds so much color to the biscuit.
prajakta.palkar
Thank you very much.
Vonetta
These sound yummy! I’m not not much of a baker, but I think I could pull this recipe off.
prajakta.palkar
Thank you Vonetta. You can definitely pull it off. They are easy to make.
Kait
These look so delicious! I have never heard of this type of cookie, but it sounds like they’d melt in your mouth. I’m so intrigued about adding papaya to them. How fun!
prajakta.palkar
Hi Kait, these are very famous cookies from India. The tutti frutti give this cookies a very nice flavor as well as bite.
Monica Tatomir
Wow, these biscuits look amazing. I live in London and tea time is a must here. Would I find these in London?
prajakta.palkar
Thank you Monica. You can find it in any Indian grocery store in London.
vaktaram
Wow, these are looks super delicious. thanks for sharing this recipe.
CA
Karachi biscuits look so cute! It’s like a fruit cake in biscuit form! I’d love to try one, they look so fun!
Mosaic Artwork
These biscuits look so so good!!! I can’t wait to make them, can’t wait! Thanks a lot for the recipe.
Andra
They look so good! I can’t wait to try this recipe 😀
prajakta.palkar
Thank you. Do tell me how they turn out.