Christmas Cookie Recipe
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Thomas Sixt is a chef, food photographer, cookbook author and blogger.
Here he shares recipes, answers cooking questions and helps with cooking.
You can find my Christmas cookie recipe in this post.
Simple Christmas baking is easy with these instructions.
Maybe you’re looking for “last minute” biscuits for your cookie plate, then you’ve come to the right place.
You can bake these Christmas cookies yourself in just over 1.5 hours and make your loved ones happy.
I wish you good luck!
Table of Contents
1. Recipe Christmas Cookie
The step-by-step instructions show you all the steps with photos.
After the recipe you will find a video to get you in the mood and other tips.
Let Santa Claus dance and have a good time!
Christmas Cookie
Freshly baked, photographed and written down by chef Thomas Sixt and Christiane Sixt.
Servings 50
Calories 112
Preparation Time 60 Min.
Cook Time 0 Min.
Total Time 90 Min.
Easy instructions for baking Christmas cookies.
Ingredients
| Dough | ||
| 500 | g | flour |
| 250 | g | Sugar |
| 2 | Packet | vanilla sugar |
| 2 | Pinches | primal salt |
| 250 | g | butter (I use soft butter) |
| 2 | Pieces | eggs |
| 2 | Pieces | egg yolks |
| glaze | ||
| 150 | g | icing sugar |
| 1/2 | Stück | Lemon |
| deco | ||
| 16 | Stück | almonds |
| sugar decoration | ||
Instruction
Preparation step 1 
Freshly sifted flour and sugar for Christmas cookie dough in baking bowl.
Prepare flour
Sift the flour into a bowl, add the sugar, vanilla sugar and salt.
Preparation step 2 
The Christmas cookie dough ingredients with eggs in the bowl.
Add eggs
Add the beaten eggs and the egg yolks separated from the whites to the flour.
Preparation step 3 
Softened butter for Christmas cookie dough
Prepare butter
Cut the soft butter into small pieces.
Preparation step 4 
The Christmas cookie dough ingredients in the bowl with butter.
Add butter
Add the softened butter to the dough ingredients in the bowl.
Preparation step 5 
Mix the Christmas cookie batter. Butter, eggs and flour are clearly visible.
Mix the dough
Mix the dough ingredients well with a hand mixer or dough hook.
Preparation step 6 
Ready mixed Christmas cookie dough
Knead dough
Knead the dough well with the hand mixer.
Preparation step 7 
Form the Christmas cookie dough.
Shape dough
Shape the dough with your hands.
Preparation step 8 
Wrap the freshly prepared Christmas cookie dough in foil to rest.
Wrap dough
Form two balls of dough and place each on cling film.
Preparation step 9 
Christmas cookie dough wrapped in foil for resting.
Dough rest
Wrap the dough balls in cling film and let them rest in the fridge for 20 minutes.
Preparation step 10 
Rolling pin and work surface prepared with flour for rolling out the Christmas cookie dough.
Prepare work surface
Flour a large pastry board or clean, dry work surface and rolling pin.
Preparation step 11 
Roll out the Christmas cookie dough with the rolling pin
Roll out dough
Roll out a first portion of dough with a rolling pin to a thickness of approx. 5 mm.
Preparation step 12 
Christmas cookie cutters on the freshly rolled out dough
Place cutters
Place the cookie cutter shapes on the rolled out dough.
Preparation step 13 
Cut out Christmas cookies
Cut out cookies
Cut out the cookies from the dough and loosen them from the work surface with a pastry card or spatula.
Preparation step 14 
Cut out Christmas cookies on a baking tray lined with parchment paper.
Cookies baking sheet
Place the cut out dough pieces with sufficient spacing on the baking tray lined with parchment paper.
Preparation step 15 
Decorate Christmas cookies with almonds
Add almonds
Top some biscuits with almonds and gently press the almonds into the dough.
This is how almond coins are made.
Preparation step 16 
Decorated Christmas cookies on the baking sheet
Decorate cookies
Decorate the remaining biscuits with colored sugar sprinkles as desired.
Always press the sugar balls a little into the dough so that they can bake firmly in the cookies.
Preparation step 17 
Put the Christmas cookies in the oven
Bake cookies
Put the prepared cookies on the baking trays in the preheated oven and bake at 200 °C hot air for approx. 7 minutes.
Preparation step 18 
Christmas Cookie baking time Clock
Baking time
Since every oven displays different temperatures, I first set the kitchen timer to five minutes and checked the cookies.
Preparation step 19 
Colorfully decorated Christmas cookies on the wire rack.
Cool cookies
Remove the baked cookies from the oven and place on a wire rack to cool.
Preparation step 20 
Mixed lemon icing for Christmas cookies.
Prepare glaze
Put the icing sugar in a bowl and prepare a viscous lemon glaze with a little fresh lemon juice.
Preparation step 21 
Spread the Christmas cookies with icing
Glaze cookies
Brush the cooled cookies with the lemon sugar icing without the sugar sprinkles.
Preparation step 22 
glazed christmas cookies drying on the grid
Drying cookies
Let the glazed cookies with the icing dry on a wire rack for a good hour.
Preparation step 23 
Cookie jars with Christmas cookies
Packaging cookies
Pack the cookies later with paper in cookie jars.
You can wrap the Christmas cookies on top of each other or in layers with paper in between.
Close the cans tightly and store in a cool, safe place.
Preparation step 24 
Christmas cookies recipe Image © Thomas Sixt
Serve cookies
Place the Christmas cookies on plates and serve.
I wish you a merry Christmas time!
Video
Courses
2. Nutrition Facts And Calories
3. Baking Tips For Christmas Cookies
I have prepared a few helpful tips for your baking event:
–> Prepare tin cans or large mason jars for storing cookies.
–> You will need greaseproof paper later to wrap the biscuits.
–> Please have the cookie cutter, rolling pin, hand mixer with dough hook and baking paper ready.
–> Get the ingredients in time and take a few hours.
–> Sugar sprinkles have proven themselves as a decoration next to lemon glaze for smiling faces.
–> Beautiful Christmas music is ideal as an accompaniment.
–> Cookies get better with a smile on your face!
–> You can use normal wheat flour type 405 or gluten-free flour.
–> For sure success I recommend the cake and biscuit flour from Schär
4. Storing the Christmas Cookies
Once the biscuits have been baked, they first have to be brought to safety.
After all, dwarfs, trolls and cooks are particularly active in the house during the Christmas season and like to steal the biscuits.
Even my grandmother hid the “Platzerl” in cans and then hid them in a secret place.
Traditionally, clean tin cans are best for storage, as are large mason jars.
Safekeeping has another purpose:
The fresh biscuits mature in the tin and become crumbly and aromatic after a few days.
5. More Christmas Cookie Ideas
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Traditional Gingerbread Recipe
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Christmas Cake Recipe
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Christmas Cookies Recipe for Classic Biscuits with Shortcrust Pastry
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Angels Eyes Recipe, Heavenly Biscuits Made Easy
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Comments, Cooking Questions and Answers
Below you can write to me directly.
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Thanks Jerry!
Hi Thomas,
these cookies are really recommendable.
The dough succeeds easily and it goes quite quickly with few ingredients.
We had a lot of fun cutting them out and my son Pascal baked his first cookies this year.
Thanks for the many tips, great photos and perfect instructions for baking.
Love Jerry