Ingredients

2 cups Maida

1 cups powdered sugar

100 gms or 3 ½ tbsp butter

½ tsp Baking powder

½ tsp vanilla essence

Milk as required

Preparation

1. Sieve Maida and Baking powder together.
2. Beat butter and sugar with a hand blender till soft and creamy.
3. Add maida and mix properly with hand.
4. Add essence.
5. Prepare like dough adding milk as needed.
6. Roll out into ¼ “ thick rounds applying maida on top and bottom.
7. Cut half of the biscuits with ordinary round cutter, and remaining half with a cutter having a hole in the centre. Both the cutters should be of same size.
8. Grease the baking tray, and arrange the cookies in the tray.
9. Bake in a preheated oven at 170C or 340 F  for 10-15 minutes.( dont wait for it to be browned)
10. Stick cream on it when cold.

For Cream

 2tsp butter

3 tbsp icing sugar

any colour and essence- orange colour and orange essence, yellow colour and pineapple essence or lemon essence, green color and mint/almond essence, Red colour and rose essence

Mix Icing sugar and butter with a spoon in a glass bowl.

Mix colour and essence.

Stick cream on a whole biscuit/ cookie and press the cookie with a hole over it. Press lightly.

Decorate the center with cream from a star tip #18.

Pack in an airtight tin after 1 hour.

Serve to Laddu Gopal and enjoy

Meena Samtani