Butter cookies baked with jiko

Name: Butter cookies baked with jiko
Total time: 900 s
Cuisine: Kenyan
Ingredients: 1 .Half cup butter(i used prestige margarine); 2 . Half cup sifted icing sugar(you can reduce afew grams if you dont like them too sweet; 3 . 2 table spoons corn flour(this gives them a nice snap); 4 . 3/4 - 1 cup sifted all purpose flour; 5 . 2 teaspoons vanilla; 6 . A pinch of salt if using unsalted butter

margaret @cook_12774702

I don't own an oven but I really wanted to try cookies. so I used a jiko and a wide sufuria to make these. Also since they don't have milk or eggs they can keep fresh for a long time.

margaret @cook_12774702

I don't own an oven but I really wanted to try cookies. so I used a jiko and a wide sufuria to make these. Also since they don't have milk or eggs they can keep fresh for a long time.

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Ingredients

15 mins

1.Half cup butter(i used prestige margarine)
2. Half cup sifted icing sugar(you can reduce afew grams if you dont like them too sweet
3. 2 table spoons corn flour(this gives them a nice snap)
4. 3/4 - 1 cup sifted all purpose flour
5. 2 teaspoons vanilla
6. A pinch of salt if using unsalted butter

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Steps

15 mins

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Procedure
1.cream the sugar and butter until pale and fluffy
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2. Add vanilla and beat it in.
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3. Mix your corn flour with you flour and mix into the butter a little at a time.
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4. After beating in all the flour your mixture will be abit like crumbs.
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Transfer to a working surface and gently make a ball.
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Roll out like a big chapati but abit thicker and cut into shapes of your choice
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Washa jiko
Take a wide flat bottomed sufuria whose diameter does not exceeding that of your jiko.
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Grease the bottom of your sufuria and arrange your cookies. You wont be able to bake them all at once. Its okay.
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Remove the hot charcoal from jiko and leave two or three peices in the jiko and heap the rest on top of your Sufuria lid. But dont put too much.
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Bake for 15 minutes and voila you have cookies. Cool and enjoy with warm milk.