Eggless Almond Chocolate Filled Cookies by Zarnak Sidhwa

Ingredients:

• Flour 2 cups
• Butter 1 cup
• Sugar 3 tbsp
• Cinnamon powder 1/2 tsp
• Vanilla essence 1/2 tsp
• Milk 2-3 tbsp
• Salt 1/4 tsp
• Icing sugar to dust few tbsp

For Almond Chocolate Filling:

• Ground almonds 1/2 cup
• Sugar 1/3 cup
• Chocolate chips 3 tbsp
• Vanilla essence 1/2 tsp

Method:

1. Mix all ingredients required for filling in bowl and keep aside.
2. For cookies: In bowl, combine flour, salt, vanilla essence, sugar, butter and combine.
3. Add 2-3 tbsp milk and make smooth soft dough. Make small balls.
4. Flatten ball using your fingers and place 1 tbsp of filling in center and enclose it.
5. Roll into smooth round ball.
6. Prepare with rest of dough and place on baking sheet about an inch apart.
7. Lightly flatten the balls.
8. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 C for about 28-30 minutes till edges are slightly toasted or till done. While cookies are warm, dust them with icing sugar
9. If not dusting with icing sugar, add another 2 tbsp of sugar to dough at time of mixing dough ingredients.
10. Cool on a wire rack.
11. Store in an airtight container.