Coconut Ghriba

Ingredients

   50 g semolina
  150 g of dried unsweetened coconut
   50 g semolina
    2 tablespoons vegetable oil
   50 g powdered suga
    1 teaspoon baking powder
    1 teaspoon vanilla extract
    pinch of salt
    1 large egg
    pinch of salt
    Orange blossom water
    Powdered sugar

Preparation

   1- Mix all the dry ingredients in a large bowl
   2- Mixing the Wet Ingredients
   3- Using and egg beater, beat the egg with the sugar until you get a whitish mixture.
   4- Add the vanilla extract and continue beating for another 30 seconds.

    -Add the wet mixture to the dry mixture, and using your hand, mix all the ingredients until well     incorporated. Add the vegetable oil.
    - Cover the bowl containing the dough with a plastic wrap and let rest on your kitchen counter for 30  minutes. 

 Shaping and Baking the Cookies
    - Preheat your oven to 350 F (190 C).
    -Cover a baking pan with parchment paper.
   - To shape the cookies, wet your hand with a little bit of orange blossom water (or just water), take some  of the coconut dough and make a ball the size of a walnut, roll the dough ball in powdered sugar, pad the coconut ball a bit to flatten in, then place it on the baking pan.
    - Bake the cookie for 10 minutes. Do not overbake or the cookies will become hard when they cool down.
   - Once the cookies are done, remove from the oven, and let cool down on the baking pan (do not move them, or they would break).
   - Let the cookies cool down before moving them to a plate. Dust them with powdered sugar before serving.