Kite Cookies

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180°C.
2. Cream together butter and powdered sugar in a bowl with an electric beater. Add vanilla essence and mix. Sieve in refined flour and rice flour and fold in well.
3. Add sesame seeds, mix and knead into a stiff dough. Divide the dough into 2 equal portions and shape them into balls.
4. Transfer a portion of dough on the worktop and roll into a thick sheet. Cut the sheet into few diamonds with a medium diamond shaped cookie cutter. Cut out few of small diamonds using a smaller diamond shaped cookie cutter. Discard the excess dough.
5. Place medium size diamond cookies on a baking tray. Cut small diamond cookies into triangles and place each triangle on one edge of each medium diamond shaped cookies and press lightly to give them a kite shape.
6. Place the baking tray in preheated oven and bake for 10-12 minutes. Remove from oven and cool.
7. To prepare sugar icing, take icing sugar and milk in a bowl and whisk well. Fill the sugar icing in a piping bag fitted with a small nozzle.
8. Transfer the baked cookies on the worktop, pipe out sugar icing on top and decorate with some yellow sprinklers and green sprinklers.
9. Place the cookies on a serving platter, pipe out some sugar icing to make kite threads and serve immediately.

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