SUGAR COOKIES

    This recipe was given to me by my friend, Tarang. It is easy to make, the ingredients almost always are easily available at home.  It is soooo easy I let my kids make some for themselves (under adult supervision, of course).The dough after mixing has a shelf life of more than a week ( my cookies always finish in a day or so, therefore I need to make more so the dough never lasts for more than 2-3 days )
A slight change in the flavours can also give entirely different versions from the same basic dough. For example, I have added a tsp of ground ginger and ground cinnamon and got gingerbread type of cookies. I have added cocoa powder and got chocolate cookies. I have added chocolate chips and got chocolate chip cookies. The way the cookies are rolled and decorated also changes the look and taste of these cookies. So this is a basic dough, very versatile, just waiting for you to try it out. let me know how your cookies turn out.

INGREDIENTS:

            1 1/2 cup. Icing sugar
               1 cup butter
               1/4 cup milk
               1 tsp vanilla essence
               2 1/2 cup all purpose flour
               1 tsp baking soda
               3/4 tsp bakin powder

            

METHOD:
 

                Mix all ingredients together . Make a dough. Wrap in clingfilm. Refrigerate it for 3-4 hrs. Roll out, use cookie cutters. Bake at 180 degree for 8-10 mins.. Very simple to do.

For the cookies in the picture, I divided the dough into two equal parts, and added cocoa powder to the second half. I refrigerated the dough for 2 hours and then rolled each half into 5 mm thick discs, placed them one above the other, and rolled them into a log. Then I wrapped them in clingfilm, and refrigerated for another couple of hours. After 2 hours, I cut out 2 to 3 mm discs out of the log, and baked them in a 180 degree oven for 10-12 minutes.

For serving, you can decorate these cookies with a simple sugar mix or use dulche de leche or chocolate sauce or buttercream or any jam to sandwich two cookies together.

        For the sugar decorations, just warm up 2 tbsp water and add about half to a cupful of icing sugar and mix. Depending on the consistency required  you can add more or less water to this. Add colour for more effect. And, before I forget, sprinkles and silver balls and glitters, make these cookies a great item for kids parties.