TURKISH COOKIES RECIPES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 160c.
• In a medium sized mixing bowl, cream 1/2 a cup of the icing sugar, the butter & the vanilla.
• Sift the flour and the baking powder, slowly add to the creamed butter. Mix well with a wooden spoon.
• One thoroughly combined, roll a teaspoonful of the dough at a time into balls. Place the balls on a baking tray lined with parchment or baking paper.
• Bake for 15-20 minutes, they should be cooked through - firm - but remain pale in colour.
• Dust the shortbread straight from the oven with some of the remaining icing sugar (sieved).
• Allow to cool, then just before serving dust again with the rest of the icing sugar.

Steps:

• Beat flour, sugar, buttermilk, eggs, vanilla, salt, and baking powder together in a bowl until dough is thoroughly mixed. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease baking sheets.
• Drop about 2 teaspoons of dough per cookie about 2 inches apart onto prepared baking sheets.
• Bake cookies in the preheated oven until light golden brown, about 10 minutes. Cool cookies for 8 to 10 minutes before removing to a plate to decorate.
• Press candy corns, point-end first, partway into the top edge of the cookies to resemble feathers. Place 2 candy-coated milk chocolate pieces in the center of each cookie to resemble the turkey's eyes. Use a small amount of frosting to create the turkey's mouth. Press 2 pieces of licorice into the bottom edge of the cookie to make the turkey's legs.