When we were kids we never had
banded fancy cookies like today. For us
in the 70ies and 80ies there was biscuit-wala who got nankathai, coconut cookies,
pista cookies etc. in his tin boxes on his cycles. Remembering childhood days days
here is coconut cookies of those days.
Ingredients
Butter – 150gm
Castor sugar – 150gm
Desiccated coconut – 100gm
Refined flour/maida – 150gm
Egg – 1
Desiccated coconut – for dusting
Method
1.
Mix
butter and sugar with beater.
2.
To this add the egg.
3.
Now mix the desiccated coconut and
flour.
4.
Make a dough of the above mixture.
5.
Cover the dough and keep it in a
refrigerator for 30 min.
6.
Now take a lemon size portion of
this dough, make a ball and flatten (let it be thick).
7.
Light dust desiccated coconut on top.
8.
Line the baking tray with parchment
paper and place the cookies in it.
9.
Repeat from step six with the rest
of the dough.
10.
Preheat the oven for 1500C.
11.
Bake the cookies for 15 min.
