Coconut biscuits

Here is an item which is very easy and fast to make and is an excellent accompaniment for tea or coffee.

Ingredients:

-  Maida (Refined flour) - 200 grams (1 cup). Makes 20 biscuits

-  Baking powder - 1 tsp

-  Grated Coconut - 1 cup

-  Ghee - 1/2 cup (100 grams)

-  Powdered Sugar - a little more than 1/2 cup (125 grams powdered)

-  Vanilla essence - ¾ tsp

-  Raisins – 1 tbsp

Method:

- Sieve the maida with the baking powder

- Take the ghee in a vessel, add the powdered sugar and mix well.

- Put flour in the ghee-sugar mixture and mix well, without any lumps.

- Add the coconut, vanilla essence and raisins to this mixture and knead to make dough.

- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees

- Grease baking tray with Ghee.

- Take small portions of the dough, roll it between the palms into a ball, flatten it and place it on the tray.

- Place the biscuits away from one another as they double in size during baking.

- Place the tray with biscuits in the oven and bake for 12 to 15 minutes

- When they are baked, take them out from the oven and place them on a wire rack to cool.

- They may look very soft after baking, but after cooling, they become very crispy.

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3 Sept 2015  Today I wanted to bake more healthy biscuits. Instead of refined flour I took 3/4 glass wheat flour and 1/4 glass oats lightly powdered, and two tablespoons of whole oats. This time I added cinnamon powder 1/4 tsp and  pinch of nutmeg powder in place of vanilla essence. Here's the result: