Ingredients
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200g Self-raising Flour
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100g Caster Sugar
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100g Butter
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1 tsp Vanilla Extract
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1 Egg
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Decoration of your choice
Directions
What is more American than a cookie?
We are cookie monsters in our house so this was a great recipe for us and lots of fun was had decorating them. We chose to make horses (a big thank you to Becs for her cutter), stars and round cookies.
I had grand plans to to decorate them with stars and stripes but time was very short this week and I ended up buying (!!!) icing. I am very cross with myself – I have never bought icing in my life and I’ll be honest I think it was harder to work with than homemade. The colour choice was also very limited so I have learnt a lesson there.
On the plus side the cookies were quick to make and the little ones enjoyed the icing pens, the chocolate stars and the glittery stars. Nom nom……
Steps
1
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Set the oven to 180C. Mix the self-raising flour and sugar together in a bowl. |
2
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Rub in the butter to create a fine breadcrumb texture. |
3
Done
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Add the beaten egg and vanilla extract and mix together to create one big ball of dough. |
4
Done
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Roll out the dough on a floured surface and cut out the cookies. |
5
Done
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Place them on a greased baking sheet and cook in the oven for 10-12 minutes. Cool on a wire rack. |
6
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Once cooled decorate and enjoy. |