Hope CE Primary School

Vanilla cats - Recipe by Polly (for Starting Point Project)

ingredients: 150g/5 and a half oz butter plus extra for greasing

225g plain flour plus extra for dusting

125g caster sugar

1 teaspoon of vanilla essence

First grease the baking tray you are going to use.

Then weigh out the flour and sieve it into a large mixing bowl

After that rub the butter into the flour until the mixture resembles fine crumbs

Stir in the caster sugar and vanilla essence and roll the mixture into a ball

 roll out the dough onto a lightly floured work surface to a thickness of about one inch

get a knife and cut out cat faces or cats and draw eye holes a nose and a mouth

After that pop them in the oven for about 15 to 20 minutes

Finally put raisins or sultanas in thee cats eyes and leave them on a cooling rack to cool

by Polly Godfrey.