Simple recipe: christmas cookie cutters

Simple recipe for cookie cutters

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  • 1 pinch of salt
  • This is how you prepare your cookie cutters

    1. Mix the flour, sugar, vanilla sugar, baking powder and salt in a tall bowl. Beat the egg and add. Cut soft butter into small cubes and spread over the mixture.
    2. Mix everything together with the kneading hooks of the hand mixer. Pile crumbs on the work surface and quickly knead into a dough with your hands. But be careful: Never knead the dough for too long, because then it will burn, which means that the cookies become brittle and crumbly. Shape the dough into a ball and wrap it in foil for at least 1 hour, even better overnight, cool it.
    3. Before baking the oven to 180 ° C (preheat top / bottom heat). Line baking sheets with baking paper. Divide the dough into 3-4 portions. Place each portion on a floured work surface, lightly dust with flour and roll out 2-3 mm thick.
    4. Cut out rolled dough with shapes, pretzel shapes or shape yourself with a knife. Place on the trays and bake for 10-15 minutes on the middle shelf level.
    5. Take the cookies out of the oven when the edges are golden brown. Lift the cookies off the tray with a pallet, let them cool on a wire rack and decorate as you like.

    definitely get results in your Christmas bakery that are the predicate "unique" definitely deserve!
    Alternatively, here are a few suggestions on how you can shape your cookies:

    How about if you made your cookies Pretzels or hearts forms? Tip: Bake a little longer because the dough is thicker here.

    Suitable for the warm fruit tea in the afternoon: Cookies in the shape of a tea bag. Simply cut into shape with a knife, press a small hole in it and slide a thread through after baking and attach a small label. Then decorate with chocolate or icing.

    A fancy change to the classic cookie cutters are biscuits in the shape of a button. Cut out the cookies with a circular shape, carefully stamp an edge with a smaller circle, then prick four holes into it.

    Decorate and refine cookie cutters

    With these ideas you can refine and decorate your cookie cutters:

    • Grated zest of a bio lemon gives your cookies a fruity taste
    • With 2 tablespoons of baked cocoa in the dough, your cookies will become delicious chocolate biscuits
    • You can color your biscuit dough with food coloring
    • You can decorate with homemade icing, bought sugar writing and melted chocolate
    • On top of that you can add chocolate sprinkles, grated chocolate, chocolate droplets, sugar pearls, colorful sprinkles & Give co
    • Mix the icing with a dash of lemon juice to give the icing a lemony taste
    • You can also color the icing with food coloring

    Store homemade cookies & give away

    Cookies can best be stored (after they have cooled) in a tin or porcelain box or in a glass. Here are some nice ideas:

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