Betefour Eid Cookies

I was looking for a dessert recipe in honor of Eid al-Adha for social hour this week. Amira's Pantry web site suggested Betefour cookies, so I made them.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of room temperature butter
• 4 ounces (1 cup) powdered sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
• 10.625 ounces (2.5 cups) of all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoons baking powder
• 2-3 Tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
• Optional - 1/2 cup chocolate chips for melting and dipping, pistachios or coconut flakes for decoration
   

Instructions:

1. Cream the butter and the sugar together.
2. Mix in the vanilla and egg.
3. In a separate bowl, whisk the baking powder and flour together.
4. Stir the flour into egg mixture to make a soft dough.
   (You may need up to to add an ounce more flour if it is too soft. You want to get the dough to the point where it’s not very sticky.)
5. Divide dough in half, and mix the cocoa powder into one portion.
6. Wrap each dough portion in plastic wrap, and let chill for at least 30 minutes in the refrigerator.
7. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
8. Use a cookie press to make flower or other shapes with dough.
9. Bake for about 12 minutes in the preheated oven or until the edges are golden brown.
10. Remove pan from oven, and move cookies to a wire rack to cool.
11. Optional - dip cookies in melted chocolate, and then dip in either coconut flakes or pistachios.
    (I let mine cool overnight, and dipped them the next day.)

Carole's Notes:

These were pretty.  The dough was very soft and sticky - I've updated the recipe to just use 1 egg for the next time. This time around the recipe was not that sweet - but I may not have increased the sugar correctly, so I recorded the ounces that I should have weighted...

The recipe is adapted from http://amiraspantry.com/betefour-eid-cookies/