Christmas Butter Cookies
Christmas is at the door and you need a quick recipe to make some simple cookies with your family. Do not fret, since this Christmas Butter Cookie recipe will help you with that.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Rest: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 50 minutes
- Yield: 60 cookies 1x
- Category: Baking
- Method: Oven
Ingredients
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- 250 g flour
- 90 g white sugar
- 125 g cold butter
- 1 Egg
- 1 Egg yolk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- In a bowl add your flour, sugar and cubes of cold butter.
- Crumble them together to incorporate the butter into the flour.
- Add egg, vanilla essence and salt to it and knead the dough.
- Knead the dough until if forms a dough to the point it doesn’t crumble. About 5 minutes. Do not over-knead it or else the cookies will taste tough.
- Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and let it rest in the fridge for 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 180 C (350 F)
- Flour your surface and roll out the dough to 3mm or 1/4″.
- Cut out your dough with a variety of shapes and place your cookies on a tray lined with parchment paper.
- Since these are a lot of cookies I suggest to put a full tray in the fridge to cool down, while working on the rest. I like to cool them down or else they loose their form.
- Beat and egg yolk and brush it over each cookie as a finish.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes.
- Let them cool completely.
- Decorate them with frosting or any sugar coat. I like them quite plain, but you do you. It is a fun activity for children to do.
Find it online: https://thesavourypineapple.com/christmas-butter-cookies/