Nestum Cookies

Recipe adapted from here

Ingredients:

200g plain flour

1/4 tsp baking powder

1/8 tsp bicarbonate of soda

150g butter, softened

75g Nestum cereal

1 egg

1/2 tsp vanilla extract

90g icing sugar
extra Nestum cereal - for coating
red glacé cherries, cut into small pieces - for decoration

Egg wash: 1 egg + 1/4 tsp salt

• Spread Nestum cereal in a baking tray and lightly toast in preheated oven at 150 deg C for about 7 minutes or until fragrant.
• Sift together flour, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda.  Set aside.
• Beat butter and icing sugar until light and fluffy.  Add in egg and vanilla extract.
• Fold in flour mixture and Nestum cereal and mix to form a dough.
• Divide dough into balls of 10g each.  Using a flat plastic spatula, press onto the ball of dough to pick it up.  Brush with egg wash.  Drop the ball of dough onto the Nestum cereal and brush the other side of the cookie with egg wash.  Coat the cookie with cereal and flatten it.  Brush a dot of egg wash in the centre of the cookie and press a small piece of glacé cherry onto it.  
• Place the cookie onto a lined baking tray.  Repeat with the rest of the dough.
• Bake cookies in a preheated oven (150 deg C) for about 10 minutes or until golden brown.  
• Cool cookies completely before storing in air tight containers.

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