Shopping list for biscuits
125g unsalted, soft butter
75g caster sugar
½ large free range egg, beaten
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
200g plain flour
½ teaspoon baking powder
For the glaze
125g icing sugar
a few drops lemon juice
1 - 2 tablespoons water
food colouring, yellow
edible glitter, gold & silver
For Eid al Fitr (that btw starts tomorrow!), we bake a lot of sweet little cookies with the kids. They try very hard to make the cookies really pretty. That's why we put frosting and glitter on, so that their moon and stars biscuits sparkle extra beautifully, at the party tomorrow!
How to make moon and star cookies
Make the vanilla biscuit dough with our PDF
Get the dough from the fridge.
Allow it to soften a minute.
Knead it swiftly.
Roll the dough to 1cm thickness.
Stick out a lot of stars.
Stick out a number of moons.
Place the dough 15 mins. in the fridge.
Preheat the oven to 175°C - 155°C Fan
Bake the biscuits in 8 - 10 minutes golden.
Allow the biscuits to cool on a wire rack.
When the bascuits have cooled completely we stir the glaze
Stir water and drops of lemon juice into the icing sugar.
De kids want white stars so spoon white glaze on the stars.
Stir a dot of yellow into the remaining white glaze.
Spoon the yellow glaze on top of the moons.
Let the glaze dry somewhat, in fifteen minutes
Sprinkle the glaze on the biscuits with glitter.
When the glaze is thoroughly dry we trim the edges with a sharp knife.
The children are very happy with how the cookies turned out. There really are a lot of tcookies so they can already have a taste, they like them very much! ;))
Eid Mubarak!