Thumbprint cookies

Thumbprint cookies filled with jam of your choice makes a great tea time goodie...

Ingredients:

Salted butter:75 grams

Icing sugar:90 grams

Self-raising flour:90 grams

Custard powder:90 grams

Vanilla essence:1/8 spoon

Baking powder:1/8 spoon

Milk:50 ml

Mixed fruit jam:50 grams

Preparation:

Take a bowl and first add butter and mash it and then add icing sugar and mix them thoroughly..

Now add baking powder in the self-raising flour and then add them to the bowl and again mix all the contents well..

Now add custard powder and then the vanilla essence..

Finally add the milk and mix thoroughly until it becomes a smooth dough..

Keep the preapred dough aside for about 10 minutes..

Take a oven tray and grease it with little butter on its surface and spray some self-raising flour also on it..

Now take a small quantity of the prepared dough and make small balls and place them on the tray…

Press the balls with your thumb one by one until your thumbprint creates a print on each of them..

Keep the tray in the oven and bake them for 5 minutes at 180 degrees C…

Now take the tray out and put small quantity of jam in the dips of thumbprints and again bake them for 15 minutes in the oven at 180 degrees C…