Wheat Butter Cookies

Prep Time:25 m                  Cook Time:15 m

Yields:30 

Ingredients

Butter               - 1/2 cup

Sugar                - 1/2 cup

Wheat flour      - 1 cup(heaped)

Salt                   - a pinch

Baking Powder - 1/4 tsp

Egg                    - 1

Vanilla Essence - few drops

Method

• Cream butter and sugar.Break an egg into this and beat well till fluffy.Add vanilla essence and mix.
                                 
     
• Sieve wheat flour,salt and baking powder together.Fold in the flour into the butter cream gently with a spatula and then use hands to bring them all together.
     
• Cover it with a cling wrap and referigerate for about twenty minutes.Meanwhile preheat oven to 180 degree celsius.Now take the cookie dough,make small balls and gently flatten between your palms and arrange in two trays lined with baking paper.Bake this for fifteen minutes,cool on a wire rack and store in an airtight container.
                           
     

Little Words

• Roll the dough into a log and cut them into cookies instead of making balls and flattening.
• Roll them into a sheet of 1/4 inch thickness and cut them into desired shapes using cookie cutters.
• Vegans can substitute egg with 1/4 th cup of oil or just plain water.