Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, christmas shortbread. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
You need to add this lovely Christmas Shortbread Cookies to your Christmas! Holidays are coming and all of us are in that holiday mood so you want something nice sweet and funny for you and your children and something which is going to make these holiday. Shortbread Christmas Cookies Shortbread Christmas Cookies.
Christmas Shortbread is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Christmas Shortbread is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have christmas shortbread using 10 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas Shortbread:
- Take 250 g butter , at room temperature
- Prepare 3/4 cup icing sugar mixture
- Prepare 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- Get 2 cups plain flour
- Prepare 1 teaspoon cinnamon ground
- Make ready 1/4 cup sugar raw
- Prepare 1 cup icing sugar
- Make ready water
- Get green and yellow food dye
- Take Red edible pearl decorations or M & M
If you're looking to try some new cookie recipes. In a large bowl, cream butter and brown sugar until smooth. Sir in flour, and knead by hand until dough comes together. At first the dough will seem dry and crumbly but don't give up, keep mixing.
Steps to make Christmas Shortbread:
- Use an electric beater to beat together the butter, icing sugar and vanilla in a bowl until pale and creamy.
- Stir in the flour and cinnamon until the dough comes together. Turn onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth. Shape into a disc and cover with plastic wrap. Place in the fridge for 15 minutes to rest.
- Roll out the dough between 2 sheets of non-stick baking paper until 5mm thick. Use a 5cm-diameter star-shaped pastry cutter to cut 65 stars from the dough. Place on lined trays. Place trays in the freezer for 15 minutes to chill.
- Bake for 12-15 minutes at 160 degrees until it is golden. Set aside on the trays for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool
- To make your frosting / Icing: Mix your confectioners sugar with a few drops of water and stir.
- In seperate bowls, add the food dye to reach desired color of green and yellow.
- Frost each cookie for the trees.
- Stack the cookies on top of each other binding each layer with a drop of frosting.
- Once dry, place your pearl decorations on the points of the stars.
- Finish the tree by placing the star on top!!! Enjoy this cookie :)
I'm completely in love with this shortbread recipe! Until I tried this recipe, I always believed that a good shortbread cookie was the result of kneading, chilling, and rolling shortbread dough before using fancy cookie cutters. How to Make Shortbread Christmas Cookies. Easy Shortbread Christmas Cookies may not be the fanciest treats in the Santa Claus cookie jar, but as previously mentioned, they're pretty darn easy to whip up. And that would be thanks to a certain handy-dandy kitchen appliance!
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