- Prep Time:
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- Difficulty:
medium
- Serves:
20
Christmas Cookies
Description
These Christmas cookies are quite simple to make - and the kids will have great fun helping you to decorate them, too !
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75 gm (3 oz) butter
50 gm (2 oz) icing sugar
finley grated rind of 1 small lemon (or lime - for a festive green flecked feel !)
1 egg yolk
175 gm (6 oz) Plain Flour
2 Egg yolks (for decorating)
Red & Green food colouring (for decorating)
Preparation
In a large bowl, beat the butter, sugar & lemon (or lime) rind together until pale & fluffy. Beat in the egg yolk, & then sift in the flour & a pinch of salt. Knead together to form a smooth dough. Wrap in clear film & chill for 30 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 190’C/375’F/Gas Mark 5. Lightly grease 2 baking sheets. On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough to 3 mm thick. Using a 6 cm fluted cutter, stamp out as many cookies as you can, with the cutter dipped in flour to prevent it from sticking to the dough. Transfer the cookies to the prepared sheets.
For the decoration, mark the cookies lightly with a 2.5 cm holly leaf (I used a star) cutter & use a 5 mm plain piping nozzle for the berries. Chill for 10 minutes, until firm.
Put each egg yolk for the decoration into a small cup. Mix red food colouring into one, & green food colouring into the other. Using a small brush, paint the colours onto the cookies. (I also pressed silver cake decoration balls into some of mine). Bake for 10 – 12 minutes, or until they begin to colour around the edges. Cool slightly on the baking sheets, then transfer to a wire rack.
