Flag Butter Cookies - Defence Day Special

Today is the day when soldiers of Pakistan laid down their lives to save the frontiers of this country. This day is celebrated across the country to pay a tribute to the brave men of this nation who sacrifice their today for tomorrow of the nation. I dedicate today's recipe to celebrate defence day of Pakistan.

I took out some time for baking and planned to make simple butter cookies in shape of flag of Pakistan yesss!! Lets move on to the recipe :)

Ingredients:

This recipe yields 20-25 cookies.

Unsalted Butter                                                1/2 cup
Sugar                                                                1/2 cup
Eggs                                                                 1 egg yolk
Flour                                                                 1 1/2 cup
Baking Powder                                                 1 1/2 tsp
Milk                                                                  1 tbsp
Vanilla                                                              2 tsp
Salt                                                                    Pinch
Green food color                                               3-4 drops
Cream for crescent & star

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Procedure:

First of all take out all the refrigerated items & let them reach at room temperature, like eggs, butter, flour etc.  

Next, combine flour and baking powder in a clean dry bowl and set aside.

Now, in another bowl beat butter until creamy & fluffy. Next add sugar gradually & beat well until light & fluffy. Next add egg yolk, vanilla essence & milk i.e. all wet ingredients & beat well until incorporated. It will result in a fluffy creamy texture.. :)

Next at low speed of beater or with the help of hands start mixing the dry ingredients with the above fluffy butter mixture.

This will result in a clean smooth dough as shown below:

Next divide the dough into two halves. Add green food coloring to half of the dough and knead it properly until green color is incorporated evenly. Leave the other half as it is.

On a sheet of waxed paper/baking parchment paper or butter paper, roll out both the green & white dough, with the help of a rolling pin into rectangular shapes as we are gonna make Pakistan's flag with it :) Let its thickness be less than half an inch.

Now place the rectangular green portion of the flag cookie on the right side and the smaller & vertical white dough rectangular portion on left :) as show in pic :)

 Now, once ready pre-heat ur oven at 162 degree C for 5-10 min. Place ur flag cookies on butter paper in the baking tray, allowing each cookie enough space to expand after getting baked.

Bake for 10-15 minutes. U will knw the cookies are done, when u see a change in color of the cookies & the base would have become firm. Cookie will be soft at first. Just allow it to cool before u serve :)

With the help of cream make the crescent & the star!! =)  Andddd u r doneee :)

Yummacious soft and crispy flag butter cookies are readdyyy!! U can save them in an airtight container for weeks too :) Enjoy with tea :)

Happyyy Defence Day!! = )

Before I have discussed with u some varieties of baking recipes like

Chocolate Cake,
No bake cold cake, 
Cream Cheese Cake.
Zebra Cake
Orange Cake
Plain cake
Chocolate Marble Cake
Almond Cake
Chocolate Brownies
Coconut Cupcakes

Coconut Cake

Thanku for stopping by! Hope u enjoy this recipe :)