Do you still need a gift for these holidays? A great option is give away these delicious christmas cookies Surely your loved ones will love this sweet gift.
The dough for these cookies is very versatile and easy to do. We can flavor it as we like, add vanilla, lemon zest…
Besides, a trick to have them ready when we need them, is to prepare the dough in advance, stretch it, cut it and store it in the freezer. We will only have to add one or two minutes of baking if we choose to prepare them like this.
recipe information
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- Preparation time: 15 minutes
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- cooking time: 10 minutes
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- total time: 25 minutes (plus cooling time)
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- rations: 40 cookies
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- Category: cake shop
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- type of cuisine: international
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- Calories per serving (kcal):125
Ingredients for Christmas cookies (Christmas Cookies)
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- 250g cold unsalted butter
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- 250g white sugar
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- 1 egg M
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- 500 g of wheat flour
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- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
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- 1 teaspoon orange zest
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- 80g white chocolate
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- colored balls
Necessary utensils
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- Christmas cookie cutters
How to make Christmas cookies (Christmas Cookies)
We beat 250 grams of cold unsalted butter cut into small cubes with 250 grams of white sugar. Let the mixture get creamy.
Add 1 M egg and fully integrate it into the mix.
We add 500 grams of wheat flour, 1 teaspoon of cinnamon and 1 teaspoon of orange zest. Mix with a spoon or in a robot at the lowest speed until it is integrated. The dough is ready when it separates from the sides of the bowl.
We make a ball with the dough and divide it in two.
We stretch each ball between two baking papers with the help of a roller. We will leave the dough with the thickness of about 4-5 mm. Refrigerate the dough until it hardens.
Preheat the oven to 180 ºC with heat up and down. When the dough has cooled, we cut it with cookie cutters in the shape of Christmas motifs. We bake the cookies for 10-12 minutes.
Remove the cookies from the oven and let them cool for 5 minutes on the tray. Next, we transfer them to a rack until they cool completely.
To decorate the cookies, we melt 80 g of white chocolate, heating it for a few seconds in the microwave, and let it warm. We pass it to a pastry sleeve.
We decorate the cookies with white chocolate making the motifs that we like the most.
Before the chocolate solidifies on the cookies, we add some of the colored balls so that they stick together.
We let the decoration dry and we can now serve our delicious Christmas cookies or prepare them as a gift.
Easy preparation summary
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- Cream the butter and sugar
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- We add the egg
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- Add the flour, cinnamon and orange zest
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- Make a ball with the dough and divide it in two
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- Stretch the dough between two baking papers and refrigerate
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- Preheat the oven to 180 ºC with heat up and down. Cut the cookies and bake them for 10-12 minutes.
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- Let the cookies cool for 5 minutes on the tray and transfer them to a wire rack until they cool completely
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- Melt the white chocolate and transfer it to a piping bag.
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- Decorate the cookies with the chocolate
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- We decorate Christmas cookies with colored balls
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- Let the decoration dry and serve
