Cinnamon star cookies

These cookies are light and crispy with cinnamon flavour!

Ingredients:
All purpose flour-250 gms or 2 and 1/3 cup,
Baking pwd-1/2tsp,
Cinnamon pwd-1 tsp,
Icing sugar- 125 gms or 1 cup and 2tbsp,
Egg-1,
Salted butter-125 gms-room temperature,
Vanilla essence-1 tsp.

Method:
Sieve flour,baking pwd and cinnamon pwd in a bowl.

Mix with a whisk.

In your mixer bowl beat the butter till light (few seconds).

Add icing sugar and just mix without the beater on,so that the sugar dust does not fly.

Run the beater to medium and then high.
Beat for a minute or till light.

Add egg and vanilla essence and beat for 30 seconds.

Add the flour and beat in low speed for 30 seconds.

Remove the beater and gather the dough into a ball.

Make a disc of the dough and wrap with a cling film and put in the freezer for 10 minutes to firm the dough.

Pre heat oven to 170 C.
Line butter paper on the baking tray.
Take out the dough from the fridge and spread another sheet of cling film or plastic on top of the disc.

With a rolling pin,roll the dough into 1/4 inch thickness.

Dip the star cookie cutter in flour and make cutouts in the dough.
Place the cookies on the butter paper,leaving an inch between each cookie.

As the oven is pre heating,place the tray in the fridge for the cookies to harden a bit.( they will not loose shape)
Bake the cookies for 15 minutes or till you see the edges brown.
Place the tray on wire rack to cool for 5 minutes.

Remove the cookies from the butter paper and place on wire rack to cool completely.

Makes 42 cookies.

Keep in room temperature in a air tight container.
Enjoy the cookies milk,tea or coffee:)