Daisy Cookies

50 gm moong dal

20 gm powdered sugar

1 Tbsp ghee/clarified butter

1 drop of green food colour

1. Wash and cook the moong dal with as minimum water as possible. 
2. When cooked, mash it in the grinder to a fine paste. 
3. Heat a pan with ghee and add the moong paste.  Saute it for a minute or so. 

4. Remove the moong mixture from the heat. 

5. Add the sugar and mix well. 

6. Add the colouring (use the colour according to your liking) very little at a time to your desired shade. 

7. Knead well.

8. Make few balls of the size of walnut and some smaller ones as the picture.

100 gm flour

25 gm powdered sugar

Pinch of baking powder

50 gm butter

1tsp refined oil

1 drop of vanilla essence

2 tsp of cold water

1. Sieve flour, baking powder, powdered sugar together. 
2. Rub in the butter well. 
3. Mix vanilla essence with the water. 
4. Add the liquid to the buttered flour and make the dough.

5. Divide the dough into 7 equal portions and make them into balls.

6. Take one flour white ball and two moong balls one small and the other big. 

7. Flatten the flour ball to hold the big moong ball.

8. Place the big moong ball in the middle and pull up the sides to cover the moong ball completely. 

9. Smooth it up by rolling it between your two palms

10. With a round biscuit cutter cut the pastry cover as deep as to reach the moong ball several times around the ball as shown in the picture. 

11. Place the smaller green ball on top and press lightly so that the slits open up slightly.  

12. Repeat the same process for the other balls and place them on a baking tray.

Bake in a hot oven of 200 degree C for about 15 minutes until lightly browned.