Suji Crystal Cookies

Ingredients:

1 cup plain flour

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/2 cup icing sugar

1/2 cup roasted ground almond

a pinch of salt

1/2 cup ghee, melted and cooled to room temperature

1/2 tsp vaniila essence

food colors -yellow, blue and pink (any color of your choice)

caster sugar for coating

Preparation:

1. In a large bowl, sift plain flour, baking powder and baking soda.
2. Add icing sugar, roasted ground almonds, ghee, salt and vanilla essence to this and mix gently until to form a smooth and soft dough. Keep it aside for 20 minutes.
3. Preheat oven to 150 degree celcius. Line baking sheet with parchment paper/ baking paper.
4. Divide the dough into 3 equal parts. Add required food color (pink, yellow and blue) to each part and knead well.

      5. Pinch about 3 gm dough from each colored dough and form balls separately.Join these 3 colored balls to a marbled shape ball.

       6. Repeat the same and make marbled balls with the remaining dough and place them on the lined baking sheet with 2 inches apart.

       7. Bake the cookies in a preheated oven for 15-20 minutes. Remove from the oven and cool them on wire rack.

        8. Let the cookies cool completely and then coat them with caster sugar...

Recipe adapted from here