Star-Shaped Macrobiotic Cookies

• 110 grams Flour (or cake flour)
• 60 grams Katakuriko
• 1 dash Salt
• 1 tbsp Beet sugar (or sugar of your choice)
• 4 tbsp Canola oil (or mild-flavored oil)
• 3 to 3 1/2 tablespoons Beet syrup (2 cups of beet sugar dissolved in 1 cup of water)
• 1/2 tbsp Vanilla extract (optional)
• 1 tbsp Cocoa powder (for the cocoa flavored kind)

1. Prepare 2 bowls.
2. Combine the dry ingredients and wet ingredients respectively in each bowl and mix well.
3. Add the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and mix well.
4. If you will be cutting out shapes with cookie cutters, bring the mixture together into a small ball, wrap with cling film and chill in the fridge for 30 minutes.
5. If you will be slicng the dough like icebox cookies, bring the mixture together into the shape of a cylinder with a diameter 3-4 cm, and allow it to rest.
6. Roll the dough out into a 4-5 mm thickness with a rolling pin between cling film, and cut out shapes with cookie cutters.
7. For the cylinder-shaped dough, slice into a 1-cm thickness.
8. Bake in the oven for 15 minutes at 180C.
9. Adjust the baking time depending on your oven.
10. I made plain cookies and cocoa-flavored cookies.
11. The star shaped cookie gift bags are ready.

flour, katakuriko, salt, sugar, canola oil, syrup, vanilla, cocoa

Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/154988-star-shaped-macrobiotic-cookies (may not work)