Christmas Cookies Recipe for Classic Biscuits with Shortcrust Pastry
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Thomas Sixt is a chef, food photographer, cookbook author and blogger.
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Hohoho, here comes my Christmas Cookies Recipe and it’s not as heavy as Santa’s sack!
The cookies are an evergreen of Christmas baking, just succeed and you can heat up the oven even at the last minute.
Christmassy scents then run through the house… Butter, cinnamon, lemon, vanilla, chocolate, now Christmas can come.
The classic Christmas cookies taste best when prepared with shortcrust pastry.
Does Santa Claus knock on the door? Hurry up with the baking, you don’t want to send him away without cookies! 🙂
Here are my step-by-step instructions. I wish you a lot of fun in your Christmas bakery and good luck!
Table of Contents
1. Recipe Christmas Cookies
But now quickly to the bakery, I wish you good luck!
Christmas Cookies with Shortcrust Pastry
Baked, photographed and written down by chef Thomas Sixt.
Simple tutolrial for baking Christmas cookies.
Ingredients
| Shortcrust pastry to Santa Claus | ||
| 250 | g | flour (I use gluten-free flour!) |
| 125 | g | butter (I use cold butter, for vegan variant margarine) |
| 80 | g | powdered sugar |
| 2 | pc | vanilla sugar |
| 1 | pinches | Salt |
| 1 | pc | Lemon (I use the abrasion of an organic lemon) |
| 1 | pc | egg (approx. 50 g Size S) |
| lemon glaze | ||
| 25 | ml | lemon juice |
| 100 | g | powdered sugar |
| chocolate icing | ||
| 100 | g | chocolate (I use dark chocolate.) |
| 10 | g | butter (or coconut fat) |
Equipment
Instruction
Shortcrust Pastry
Prepare dough
Place the ingredients for the shortcrust pastry in a bowl, chop the butter into small pieces and add to the mixture, kneading quickly.
Add the egg at the end. It is best to use the kneading hooks from the hand mixer.
Dough rest
Place the shortcrust pastry on cling film and wrap it up.
Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes. Professionals prepare the dough the day before and let it rest in the fridge for one night.
Roll out
Remove the dough from the fridge and roll it out 4 mm thick.
Cut out
Cut out round cookies.
Cut out stars
Think of Santa Claus and cut out stars in different sizes.
Place cookies
Place the biscuits on a baking tray with baking paper and preheat the oven to 200° C.
Bake
Bake the cookies in the oven at 200° C for approx. 8 minutes, then allow to cool.
Decoration with chocolate glaze
Cut Chocolate
Cut the chocolate into small pieces.
Melt chocolate
Melt the chocolate in a stainless steel bowl over the water bath at low temperature and stir in the butter or coconut fat.
The cooled cookies either brush or carefully dip and let cool.
lemon glaze
Prepare lemon juice
Squeeze out the lemon juice and mix with the icing sugar.
Brush the cookies with the lemon glaze and let them set.
Keep cookies
Serve
You can store the cookies wonderfully in a cookie jar in a cool place.
Place a piece of paper between the biscuit layers.
Courses
Cousine
Keyword
2. Nutritional Information
3. Tips for Baking Christmas Cookies
Most cookie baking recipes come from my grandmother, I got my tips directly from Santa Claus and should bring them diligently among the people.
After all, Santa Claus wants to make people big and small happy.
Please share the recipe, we are happy and the heavenly blessing has been given!
- To bake, please put on a Santa hat, the cookies will then be demonstrably better!
- Be sure to get an untreated organic lemon.
- Get the best organic butter and keep it cold.
- Buy organic farmers eggs, you need an egg with 50 g that corresponds to the size S/under 53 g.
- Get real Himalayan salt, this will make the biscuits more digestible.
- Finely grind powdered sugar from brown raw cane sugar yourself.
- Bake shortcrust pastry biscuits in the classic way on top and bottom heat.
- For decoration, mix icing sugar with vanilla sugar or provide chocolate or lemon juice.
- Prepare the ingredients and baking trays with baking paper.
- Sieve the flour freshly just before preparing the dough.
- If children are to be given presents, please make sure you have various cookie cutters available.
- Place the biscuits on baking paper, bake and allow to cool.
Vanilla pod, or the vanilla marrow is exceptionally not used, Santa Claus has clearly whispered that to me. He wants to have the vanilla pulp in the vanilla crescents, which you can also bake!
Please make sure you cut out star-shaped cookies, Santa likes them best.
Santa Claus Tip from Chef Thomas Sixt
Next, let’s look at the decoration of biscuits…
4. Decorate Christmas Cookies
The following table shows some ideas, if you can think of other deco variants please write a comment directly at the end of the page, I’d be happy to add!
| Designation | Description |
|---|---|
| Without decoration | Leave the biscuits without decoration after baking. |
| Lemon glaze / sugar glaze | Mix a little lemon juice with icing sugar and spread on the mixture |
| egg yolk | Coat biscuits with egg yolk before baking |
| coloured glaze | Paint biscuits with food colours. |
| sugar sprinkles | Decorate the biscuits with sugar icing and sugar sprinkles. |
| gold dust | Decorate the biscuits with sugar icing and gold jam. |
| chocolate icing | Dip or brush the biscuits in liquid chocolate. |
5. Further Recommendations
Vanilla Crescent Cookies Recipe In Two Variants
Nut Cookies Recipe
Christmas Cookie Recipe
Cinnamon Cookies Recipe
Traditional Gingerbread Recipe
Gingerbread Spice Recipe
Christmas Cake Recipe
Chocolate Crossies Recipe with Variations
Chocolate Mountains Recipe – German Granatsplitter
Coconut Macaroons Recipe
Rum Balls Recipe two Variations
Coconut Balls Recipe in 3 Variations
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