Nankatai

  
Ingredients:

2 cup maida(all purpose flour)
1 cup sugar(castor sugar/pithi sakhar preferable)
1 cup butter(unsalted)
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
cocoa powder,vanilla essence,cardomom(optional) 



Method:

1. In a bowl,mix soft butter and sugar and beat for 10-15 minutes until light and fluffy.The more you beat the batter ,the more fluffy will be the nankatais.   
2.  In another bowl,mix maida,baking powder,baking soda and vanilla essence.
3. Now add flour mix to butter sugar mixture and knead it properly into a dough.
4. Make small balls of the dough and press each ball to make the size of a cookie.
5. Put Nankatai on a lightly greased baking tray and bake at 150 degrees celsius for about 15 minutes or until Nankatai are lightly gold brown.
6. After they are lightly golden brown remove the baking tray from the oven.  Let the Nankatais cool down for 10 minutes before taking them off the baking tray.
7. To make schoko cookies mix cocoa powder in step 2.