Butter Cookies

Ingredients

• 250 gram butter (room temperature)
• 1/2 cup icing sugar
• 1/2 cup cornflour
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• 1&1/2 cups cake wheat flour (you may not need all of it)
• 100 gram chocolate (for decorating)
• sprinkles (for decorating)

Instructions

1. 1

   Beat butter and icing sugar until light and creamy

2. 2

   Mix in the vanilla essence

3. 3

   Add cornflour and flour, a little at a time and mix until you have a soft, pliable dough. Do not add all the flour. You may not require all of it or you may need just a little more

4. 4

   Pipe out the cookies using an open star nozzle and a thick piping bag. Once the cookies are piped out or cut out place on a baking sheet and refrigerate for 30 minutes

5. 5

   Bake at 160 degrees Celsius for 15-20 minutes. The edges will be slightly brown and cookies will be a little soft

6. 6

   Cool on a cooling rack

7. 7

   Melt the chocolate, at 20 second intervals, in the microwave. Dip one end of the cookie in the chocolate and add sprinkles on top