Malaysia - Crisp Sweet Striped Cookies (Kuping Gajah)

Crisp Sweet Striped Cookies 

(Kuping Gajah)

Ingredients

-       500 gram wheat flour

-       150 gram granulated sugar

-       ½ tsp. salt

-       ½ tsp. vanilla

-       2 eggs, lightly beaten

-       1 Tbs. cooking oil

-       100 cc water

-       ½ Tbs. cocoa powder

-       800 cc oil for frying

Directions

-       Thoroughly mix sugar, salt and vanilla.

-       Add the beaten eggs and stir well.

-       Add oil, stir once more, and then divide in half.

-       Divide the flour in half as well.

-       Take 1 Tbs of flour from one part and add it to the other.

-       Mix the flour with each half of the sugar and egg mixture.

-       Add cocoa powder to the smaller mix.

-       Add 50 cc of water to each half.

-       Knead until smooth and not sticky to the touch.

-       There will be two types of dough, white and brown.

-       Separately, roll both pieces of dough out on a plastic covered cutting board until they are about 1 mm thick.

-       Place the two together, then roll up.

-       Wrap with plastic and place in the refrigerator for approximately an hour or until the dough hardens.

-       With a sharp knife, cut the dough vertically into flat cylinders about 2 mm thick.

-       Flatten once more with a rolling pin.

-       Fry in hot oil until crisp.

-       Remove, drain.