Biscuits for the Biscuit Maker

These have been some of my all time favourite biscuits to make. Yes, mainly I love using my cookie cutters that I have collected over the years, but also because these biscuits are delicious and bring back memorie of when I was small and used to bite the little petals off the flower biscuits my Granny Zelda used to make. These are delicious decorated with icing, maybe a smartie pressed into the centre or even some sugar sprinkled on top before baking.

Ingredients:
250g butter
125ml (100g) sugar
2 eggs
10ml vanilla essence
625ml (350g) flour
10ml baking powder
2ml salt

Method:
Cream butter and sugar together
Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add essence
Sift dry ingredients together and add to creamed mixture. Mix well
Place dough in biscuit maker and press onto (or in my case roll out, then press out shapes with cookie cutters and place onto) a greasd baking tray
Bake in a preheated oven at 180ºC for 10minutes. Cool and store in an airtight container

*Makes about 80