Creatan Eastern Cookies

Total Time: 1 hr 40 mins Preparation Time: 40 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 3 -4 eggs
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup butter or 1 cup margarine
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1 cup milk, warm
• 2 teaspoons orange blossom water or 2 tablespoons orange peel, greated
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 6 cups flour (if necessary more)
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• sesame seeds (for topping) (optional)
• sugar (for topping) (optional)
• 1 egg, beaten (for topping) (optional)

Recipe

• 1 separate yolk from whit eggs.
• 2 beat eggs with salt very well to “snow”.
• 3 beat butter (or margarine), sugar and yolks until soft and light.
• 4 incorporate the beaten eggs.
• 5 milk with orange blossom and vanilla (or grated orange peel) together.
• 6 add the flavored milk to the egg mixture.
• 7 incorporate slowly the flour mixed with baking soda.
• 8 work until soft, but not sticky. if necessary add some flour.
• 9 spread the mixture over the dough and decorate with reserved flowers.
• 10 take one teaspoon dough and roll it (not thicker than a pencil) and shape it as you like-.
• 11 place on baking foil and bake them 12 minutes at 180°c/350°f or until golden.
• 12 with this quantity i got 4 baking molds of them.
• 13 note: you can paint the cookies with some beaten egg or you can roll them in sugar or in sesame seeds.
• 14 variation: add to the dough cinnamon or chocolate powder.