I am back to cooking and sharing recipes with you dear friends. Last September I was sent to work in the desert as a teacher and since then I stopped making desserts.
I am planning on preparing lots and lots of dishes. I started with a middle-eastern cookie recipe because it is very easy to make and at the same time very yummy. It tastes like store-bought cookies and it goes well with Turkish coffee that I am addicted to this period.
One of the famous sweets in the Middle East is butter cookies which they call "ghrayba". Of course there are numerous types of butter cookies especially in Tunisia that I hope I can share with you. This time I will share with you my mom's favorite type of butter cookies.
These egglless melt-in-your-mouth cookies are perfect for those who don't prefer eggs in dessert recipes like me.
Eggless Custard Butter Cookies
Prep time: 20 mins
Cook time: 20 mins
Total time: 40 mins
Ingredients
- 1, 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup icing sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup vanilla custard powder
- 2, 1/4 cup flour
- Preheat the oven to 350F/180C.
- Sift the flour, custard powder, and icing sugar together.
- Add the butter and vanilla extract and knead until you get a soft and smooth dough.
- Make small balls (about 1 inch balls) out of the dough.
- Line on a parchment lined cookie sheet.
- Press the balls on top with a fork to mark lines.
- Bake for 18-20 minutes.
- Cool the cookies on the sheet.
