Suji Cookies

Suji cookies are mouth melting cookies which is very popular in Malaysia.I have bookmarked these cookies from Uma's Kitchen Experiments which she adapted from Fun wid Food.

I bookmarked this long time back and didn't get a chance to make these yummy cookies.Last week when I got a mail from Hubby dear's office for a baking competition,without any second thought I baked these delicious cookies.It came out very nice and mouth melting with the flavor of ghee.Now on to the recipe..................

Ingredients

Ingredient	Quantity
All Purpose Flour/maida	1cup
Ghee/clarified butter/nei	1/2cup
Icing sugar	1/2cup
Roasted ground almond	1/2cup
Baking powder	1/2tsp
Baking soda	1/2tsp
Salt	1/8tsp
Vanilla Extract	1/2tsp
Food Color(pink,yellow,blue)	few drops
Caster sugar	for coating the cookies

Method

                           Mix all purpose flour,salt,baking soda and powder,sift it.To this add the icing sugar.
Then add the almond powder,ghee and vanilla extract.

Mix it well and make a dough.Divide the dough into 3 equal portions and to each portion add each of the color,mix it.Take a small dough in each colored dough.

Roll it smoothly between the palms and flatten it to a disc.Arrange the flatten discs on a greased baking tray with 2 inches apart.Bake it in 325F for 15-17 minutes(mine took 15 minutes).

Once the cookies cool completely,coat it with the caster sugar and arrange it on a plate.

Suji cookies are ready.

Enjoy..............................................

• The cookies enlarge while baking so make sure to get a small gooseberry sized dough from each color.
• Measure the butter after melting and almonds needs to be roasted and ground,I kept in the microwave for 3 minutes.
• While coating in the caster sugar the cookies should be cooled down completely.