Ingredients
| all-purpose flour: 180 g |
| powdered sugar: 125 g |
| baking powder: 1/4 tsp |
| salted butter: 80 g |
| eggs: 1 (lightly beaten) |
| pure vanilla extract: 1/4 tsp |
Alphabet Cookies
Credit: Food.com
User rating:
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Prep Time
20 min -
Cook Time
10 min -
Servings
30 serving(s)
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Method
- Combine flour,baking powder and sugar.
- Cut in butter till mixture resembles breadcrumbs.(You can do this in food processor).
- Add vanilla and egg.Work to a dough and shape a ball.
- Wrap in plastic wrap and put in the refrigerator for 15 minutes to get hard enough to roll.
- Then make small balls of dough.
- Roll into thin cylinders, make letters of the alphabet, twisting the dough and trimming it as necessary.
- Arrange on a greased cookie sheet,leaving a little space between them.
- Bake at 180 C for about 10 - 12 minutes.
- Remove them from the oven as soon as the edges of cookies turn golden.
- Leave on the cookie sheet for 2-3 minutes to cool a bit,then delicately detatch them from the sheet.
- Leave to cool on a wire-rack.
- Topping:.
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- Drizzle melted chocolate / chocolate sauce OR spread lemon icing on the top of the cookies OR dip the top in melted chocolate.
- Sprinkle desicated coconut / chopped nuts.
- Leave to set.