Uma cooks.......: Homemade cookies

This recipe makes 60 medium sized cookies.

Ingredients:

• 1000 g flour (All Purpose flour)
• 600 g butter (at room temperature)
• 1 egg
• 300 g icing sugar(cookies can not be done with regular sugar as it will not melt)
• 1 tsp of vanilla sugar or a few drops of vanilla extract.
• 1 tsp crushed Anise seeds
Cookie sheet/ butter paper - for rolling

Method:

1. Sieve the flour and put in a wide bowl.
2. Whisk the egg,vanilla essence and crushed anise seeds in a seperate bowl and set aside.
3. Gradually add the butter and sugar to the flour.
4. Just mix the flour,butter and sugar.(Do not make a dough.Just blend together)
5. Keep blending the flour while adding the whisked egg and essence mixture.
6. The consistency of the dough should be like a chapati/roti dough.
7. Wrap it tightly with a cling wrap and keep it in the fridge for an hour.
8. Take out the dough and set side for 15 min at room temperature.
9. Take small portions of the dough and make round balls of diameter 4 cm.
10.Place a Cookie sheet on any flat surface and roll the dough keeping a cookie sheet on top of the dough as well.(This ensures that the dough does not stick to the rolling pin).

9. The dough should not be rolled very thin. The thickness should be 2 to 3mm.
10. Cut the dough using the cookie moulders.
11. Bake it at 380 F for 7 mins..(End point : Golden brown colour and little dry on top).
12. Cool it to room temperature and store in air tight containers.

Tips:
1. Place the cookie sheet from the edge of the counter space so that you can hold it tight with your body as you roll.This ensures that the dough does not move while rolling.

Variations:

1. Use different shapes to make it attractive for kids.
2. Jamz cookie:

Make pairs of round cookies(one with a small hole -1 cm dia) in the center and another without hole.

Spread any jam on the cookie without hole and cover it with a cookie with hole.