Kenya Cookies

Mom”™s Recipe

Ingredients:

• 5 lbs (pounds) of all purpose flour (2.5 kg flour)
• 3 lbs sugar
• 2 lbs butter or margarine at room temperature
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 3 cups of milk at room temperature
• 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla essence
• 1 teaspoon salt

Method:

1. In a large bowl, mix together butter (or margarine), sugar until fluffy.

Add vanilla and mix well

2. In a separate bowl measure flour, add baking powder, salt and mix well
3. In the butter (margarine) mixture, add flour and milk (initially 1/3 amount) and go on mixing until all ingredients added. Make soft dough.
4. On the rolling board or clean table surface roll out dough to about ¼” thickness and cut with shaped cookie cutters.
5. Place cookies in the preheated oven at 325 degrees F for 10 minutes or until golden brown.

 Jashoda Shah