Preparation Time : 15 minutes

Cooking Time      : 15- 20 minutes

Serving                : 4 members

Description

Biscuits and cookies don’t fancy me much but it’s just the vies – ver -sa  with my boy.  I used to give both my kids just two biscuits at a time when they were little. My gal being a fussy eater would take them with no complaints but my smart fellow would roll on the ground , cry out loud and do a lot more drama just to get the entire packet of biscuits from me. Being the cliche mumma… I would end up giving him the entire packet as boys are always mummas sweet hearts right ?? My boy would have finished  the whole packet in a few minutes where my gal would have finished just half a biscuit of the two given to her. My boy would grab the remaining one and half biscuit as well from her. This was a regular scene at home back then. Now that my boy is back home with me for a long break after he’s finished his under graduation. I did bake a huge batch of vanilla cookies for him. He did relish a few and the rest were stored in an air tight container for later. The next day, having guests drop in for evening tea, I opened the cookie container and found it to be empty ??? I immediately knew this cleanly wiped out job was done none other than my darling smart fellow. With a motherly heart full of joy .. I did think … Some habits are born to stay for ever and ever.

Ingredients

Method

1.Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
2.mix butter, sugar, flour, salt, baking powder and vanilla essence together.
3. Knead to a soft dough . Roll the dough to a one inch thick rectangle of even thickness all over.
4.Cut into desired shape with a cookie cutter . ( I used a moon shape cookie cutter and pressed with a fork on top to get the lined pattern )
5. place the cut cookies at a gap of one inch distance each over a greased butter paper / foil paper lined baking tray.
6.bake the cookies for 15-20 minutes until done.
7. Remove from the oven and cool over a wire rack. Serve after one hour so that the cookies get a bit crisp and crumbly.
8. store in an air tight container at room temperature. Keeps well for a week.

Notes

1. make sure all the ingredients are at room temperature.
2.Let your imagination rule and experiment with the Desing of the cookies .
3. I cut the cookies to rounds and stick jems color cookies , or cut to a flower shape with a cookie cutter and stick one jems in the middle and press with a fork to get the flower petals to look good .