Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Soft- Apple cookies

Dough:
10 tbs butter
1/2 cup yogurt
1 cup powdered sugar
1/2 cup oil
1/2 cup starch
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tea spoon baking powder
3 1/2 cups flour

Filling
5 apples
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla sugar
1/2 cup ground almonds

Filling:  Grate the apples, and cook them in a pot with the sugar. Add the cinnamon and almonds and let cool.

Dough: Add all ingredients one at a time, blend in the flour and baking powder after sifting, and then knead until it forms soft dough.

Shape dough into 1 inch pieces and using a knife draw a line starting from the middle of the dough. Place 1 tsp filling on the dough at one end.  roll the dough into a moon shaped cut and put onto baking sheets. Bake in the preheated oven at 180ºC  ( 356ºF )  and remove before the top is brown. Cool completely and dust with powdered sugar.