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These Vanilla Stars are simple, eggless vanilla flavored cookies that kids will relish for sure.
Yields: 25 cookies (approx)
Ingredients:
All-Purpose Flour (Maida) – 3 cups
Baking Powder – 1 1/2 teaspoons
Butter – 300gms
White Sugar, fine granules – 1 1/2 cups
Salt – 1/2 teaspoon
Vanilla Extract – 2 teaspoons
Method:
- Preheat the oven to 350F (180C).
- Sift together all-purpose flour and baking powder twice together.
- Cut the butter through the sifted flour until it forms a crumbly mixture.
- Add sugar, salt and vanilla extract. Knead well until it forms a soft dough.
- Divide the dough into 4 dough balls of equal size.
- Roll each ball into 1cm thick disc.
- Using a cookie star shaped cookie cutter, stamp out the stars.
- Place the dough stars on the baking tray.
- Bake for about 10 -12 minutes until the base starts browning.
- Remove the trays from the oven and place them on cooling rack for about 10 minutes. The cookies which are slightly soft on top will harden as they cool down.
- Serve and preserve the rest in an air tight container.
