Last weekend I really wanted to
make Christmas cookies. I see them all over the interwebs and I have actually
never made iced cookies like this before, so I thought it would be a lot of fun
to try it out. I think they turned out really well and they tasted great too! I
love the spices in there and the shapes of the cookies really put me in the
Christmas mood!
What do you need
for these yummy cookies?
100g unsalted
butter
100g dark brown
caster sugar
1 egg
1 tsp of vanilla
extract
275g plain flour
Pinch of salt
Cinnamon
Speculaas spice
(similar to pumpkin spice)
Decoration:
Icing sugar
Tiny bit of water
Decorating pen
Oven: 190C
The first step is
to cream together the butter and the sugar in a large mixing bowl until it's
all fluffy. Then add the vanilla extract and the egg and mix it all together.
Now mix all your dry ingredients and slowly add this to the buttery mixture. I
personally like to put a lot of Speculaas spice and cinnamon in there. Usually
the recipe says like one tablespoon, but I always put way more in it. I just
love the taste of it!
Mix all the
ingredients together until you get a nice dough, wrap the dough in foil and pop
it in the fridge for about an hour (or do it like me and put it in the freezer
for 15 minutes. I do recommend an hour in the fridge though).
Sprinkle some flour
on your counter top, put the dough on there and roll it out until the dough is
1cm thick. Now it's time for the fun stuff! Get your cookie cutters out and cut
biscuits out of the dough. Place those on a baking tray laid with parchment
paper and put them in the oven for about 8-10 minutes or until they are golden
brown. Get them out of the oven and set them aside for 5 minutes before you place
them on to a wire rack. Wait till they are cooled down and then it's time to
decorate!
I mixed some icing
sugar with a few drops of water. I don't have the exact amounts, but I
basically put some icing sugar in a bowl and added drops of water until the
consistency was nice. You can also use a decorating pen which I did for the red
icing.
I had no fancy
icing kits, so I used a small knife to spread the icing very carefully onto the
cookies. Then I waited till the icing was all set and put them to the
taste-test.
They are really
yummy and I love the spices in there. I am a huge fan of cinnamon and Speculaas
spice anyway, but at this time of the year it tastes even better. I am planning
to bake something again this weekend, so look out for another baking post next
week!
These are so perfect and appetising.Love how they look and I'm so sure I'd love how they taste
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