Easy-bake Cinnamon Cookies

Here's the long-promised recipe for my favourite homemade cookies, with a hint of cinnamon:

Ingredients:
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup low-fat spread/butter
1 1/2 cups self-rising (or plain) flour
1/2 spoon vanilla extract
1 spoon cinnamon powder
A pinch of salt

For dusting:
A few spoons of sugar
1/4 spoon cinnamon powder

Method:
1. Mix well the sugar and spread/butter in a large bowl, till smooth without any lumps.
2. Add the vanilla extract, cinnamon powder, salt and flour to the beaten sugar and spread/butter mix.
3. It should form a fairly stiff dough, not sticky.
4. Roll bits of the dough into 1 inch balls, gently flatten them and roll lightly in the sugar-n-cinnamon dust.
5. Pre-heat the oven to 175 degrees centigrade, for 4-5 minutes.
6. Place the cookie dough on flat, baking-paper lined trays, a few inches apart, and place the trays in the oven.
7. The cookies should be ready in 18 minutes. Leave to cool. They do not need to turn brown.
8. If firmer cookies (i.e. biscuit-like consistency is preferred), leave in the oven for a further 3 minutes.
9. Try adding crushed nuts, like Brazil nuts or Hazel nuts, to the cookie dough, if you like a bit of variety. I have tried both, and they are yummy!
10. Do not leave out the pinch of salt, as this is what allows one to keep the quantity of sugar low in this recipe.

I made a fresh batch of these cookies a few minutes ago...and am now watching "What a Girl Wants" on the telly. Couldn't have asked for a better way to spend Saturday evening, as Colin Firth is second only to Hugh Grant, in my opinion:-)