Easy Cooking: Coconut Cookies Recipe

1 cup - Powdered sugar.

1 cup - All purpose flour(maida).

3 tbsp - Butter(salted).

1 no - Egg.

1 tsp - mixed fruit jam.

1 tsp - Baking powder.

1 tsp - baking soda.

1 tsp - vanilla essence.

3 tbsp - Dessicated coconut.

1 tbsp - Custard Powder.

Mix all dry ingredients except coconut powder,and sift them ones and keep it aside.
Take butter(butter should be at room temperature) and sugar,start creaming it till the mixture becomes creamy and fluffy.
Add 1/2 beaten egg and vanilla essence to it and mix it well,till the mixture becomes smooth.Make sure egg is at room temperature.
To this add all dry ingredients including coconut powder.keep little coconut powder aside
for decoration.
Mix everything together and keep it in refrigerator for 10 mins.
Meanwhile preheat your microwave oven on convection mode at 180 degrees C.
Take out mixture from fridge.
Spread remaining coconut powder on a flat plate.
Make small dumplings from the mixture and press them over coconut powder and keep them on greased baking dish.
Make cone from plastic sheet and fill it with jam.
decorate the cookies with jam by using this piping cone.
Now put the baking dish in preheated oven and bake the cookies for 15-20mins.till it looks golden in colour.
Keep checking in between.
After baking take out the cookies and place them over cooling rack.
Once cooled completely the cookies becomes crispy and crunchy.

Delicious coconut cookies are ready to eat......:)

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