French Sable Cookies

Ingredients

• 2 cups all purpos flour (250 grams)
• 1 Egg
• 1 Tbsp vanilla extract
• 150 grams Butter (Soft) ½ cup + 2 tablespoon
• ½ cup sugar (100 grams)

For filling:

• ½ cup Strawberry jam

For decoration:

• ½ cup Confectioner sugar

Instructions

1- In a large bowl, cream butter with sugar until combined.
2- Add egg and vanilla, mix with a wooden spoon until well combine.
3- Flatten the dough, cover with plastic wrap, refridgrate for 2 hours.
4- Cut as a circle with sableé cutter, i use decorating tip to make the middle circle.
5- Bake in a preheated oven 170°C for 13-15 minutes.
6- Sprinkle confectioners sugar at the top when it out of oven.
7- Cool down before fill it with jam.
8- Fill With jam, and cover with the sugar cookies carefully.

Pistachio cookies

Ingredients

• 1 cup Semolina medium grains
• 2 Cups All purpose flour
• ½ Cup Melted butter 100 grams
• ½ Cup Vegetable oil 100 ML
• 4 Tbsp Sweet condensed milk
• ¼ tsp dried yeast (optional)
• ¼ tsp Baking soda
• 4 Tbsp Rose water

For filling:

• ¾ Cup pistachio
• 2 Tbsp sugar syrup
• 1 Tbsp rose water

For Decoration:

• ½ cup Powdered sugar

Instructions

1- In a large bowl mix the semolina and flour then add the butter and oil, mix all together until you have a cookies dough. Don't over mix just to combine. Cover and let it rest at least 2 hours or overnight.
2- To the dough add the yeast, baking soda, sweet condensed milk and the rose water, knead all until well combined.
3- To prepare the filling: in a medium bowl place the crushed pistachio, sugar syrup and the rose water mix with a spoon together.
4- Take a small amount of the dough and shape as a ball, at the middle make with your finger a small hole, add 1 tbsp of pistachio filling, then close firmly.
5- Place the cookie ball in a cookie mold or ma’amol mold(i bought it from a chinese store) Then, flip the cookie upside down and click the edge of the cookie mold to let the piece get out. If you don't have a ma'amol mold you can shape the top with a fork as classic cookies shape.
6- Place the cookies in a baking sheet.
7- Bake it in a preheated oven 220°C for 10 to 15 mins until golden color.
8- Sprinkle the powdered sugar immediately above the cookies when out of the oven.

10 minutes Eggless Tea cookies

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• 1 cup melted butter or vegetable oil
• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 1/4 cup powder milk
• 1 tablespoon cacao powder( optional) add it for chocolate cookies

for decoration(optional)

• 2 tablespoon melted dark chocolate
• 2 tablespoon melted white chocolate

for filling (optional):

• Nutella and strawberry jam
• date paste

Instructions

1- In a large bowl whisk melted butter with sugar, give your mixture a quick mix until sugar dissolves. Add all purpose flour and milk powder.
2- Combine all together until you have a soft cookies dough, (knead the dough if it turn too mushy add more flour, and if it crumble add 1 tablespoon of butter until you have the smooth dough as shown the video below)shape your dough as a large ball.
3- Cut the dough into two halves, place a half into a bowl. To the remain half add cacao powder, knead with hands until you have a chocolate cookies dough.
4- Take a large ball and flatten with a roller, cut with cookies cutter as heart shape or as a desired.
5- Shape cookies as small balls, place them simply in your baking sheet.
6- With small spoon or with finger press to make a cavity at the middle of the balls, fill with strawberry jam.
7- Repeat the same with chocolate cookies.
8- Bake at preheated oven 170°C / 380F for 7 to10 minutes.
9- Let cookies cool before transfer it.
10- Decorate the top of cookies with melted chocolate and melted white chocolate.
11- Fill the chocolate cookies with nutella and jam.
Enjoy!