K, this recipe is mine, not traditional Omani, but I love to do it for Ramadaan.
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 35 minutes
Ingredients:
2 1/2 Cups all purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
2 Sticks of butter (1 Cup), softened
2 1/2 Cups sugar
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla extract
Preparation:
Blend flour, baking soda, and baking powder together. In another bowl, cream the butter and sugar together. Add the egg to the butter and sugar and mix well. Add vanilla extract. One cup at a time, add the flour mix into the wet ingredients. Mix until it's nice and doughy.
Flour your hands, and roll dough into pieces about the size of a golf ball. Squash it down and shape it into a crescent, and then flatten it down. Another option is to roll the dough out and cut it with crescent cookie cutters -- be sure to flour your cookie cutters before you use them, or the dough won't come out as well.
Bake on an ungreased baking sheet at 350 for about ten minutes, until the sides begin to brown.
Make icing with the following ingredients:
1 8-oz block of cream cheese, softened
1 stick butter, softened
4 Cups powdered sugar
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 tsp. milk
Blend the cream cheese and butter together, and then gradually add in the powdered sugar. Add the vanilla and mix well. Blend in the milk (add a little more if your icing doesn't seem creamy enough). After your moon cookies have cooled, Use this to frost them.
Optional: add silver sprinkles to your cookies while the frosting is still wet, or dip half the cookie in chocolate and frost the other half in white.
It is all in the presentation.
Try using a simple cookie-cutter to glam up sandwhich meats and cheese, and breads.
Try decorating a cake with a Ramadan-themed cake topper????
Why not make a crescent shaped gift-box and fill it with chocolates? Easy to re-use or to store for other things.
While looking for cute Ramadan decorating ideas (which honestly, I might be too tired to do while working and fasting) I stumbled upon this great blog http://www.ramadanchallenge.com/ which has lots of tips and crafts ideas. I promise, more to come, inshaAllah.
K, this recipe is mine, not traditional Omani, but I love to do it for Ramadaan.
To dress like an Omani Princess (not really, LOL) you have to own at least 2-3 nice abayas for dressier occasions out of the home. Here, I design my own, and take it to the tailor, but there are alot of nice online sites you can order up some gorgeous Khaleeji style from. This site has some awesome ruching and use of colours that I enjoy. Bon apetit. http://www.rouge-couture.com/
I think the babies here in Oman are sooooo cute mashaAllah! Especially when they have kohl rimmed eyes and their cute gold bangles:D (the girls---I want a little girl inshaAllah).
