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75g butter (room temperature)
75g caster sugar
½ free-range egg (room temperature)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
125g Zeeland flour
for the icing
g icing sugar
drops of lemon juice
various colours food colouring
Today we bake cookies for Diwali! We like that very much because Diwali is a colourful celebration so the cookies are also cheerfully coloured. The mini-monsters aren't helping today, they're off to school. It's a surprise that they will no doubt be happy with. A cookie is always welcome with them :))
How to make the little elephants
Place butter and sugar into the mixer.
Mix until it is creamy.
Add the half of an egg.
Add the vanilla extract too.
Mix again until fluffy.
Weigh flour and baking powder.
Sift it in in parts.
Fold it in firmly.
Wrap the dough in cling film.
Let the dough rest for 1 hour.
PLace waxed paper on the baking tray.
After the rest roll out the dough to +/- 1cm thickness
Cut elephants out of the dough.
Place the elephants on the baking tray.
Place the tray 20 minutes in the fridge.
Preheat the oven to 175°C
Bake the elephants for 10 minutes.
Let the biscuits cool on the tray, then on a wire rack.
Make the icing while the biscuits cool
Sift the icing sugar
Add drops of lemon juice.
Stir the icing sugar with tablespoons of water.
When the right thickness you stir in the food colouring.
Pipe a line of icing on the edge of the elephants then fill it up.
Allow the icing to dry well
Decorate the elephants with icing and gold food paint.
Shub Divali! Happy Divali!