Check out these special Christmas cookies. It’s a delicious and easy to prepare dessert that will make your Christmas Eve even more incredible. Invite the kids to help decorate this treat and have fun!
Special Christmas biscuit recipe
Time: 1h20 (+1h in the fridge)
Performance: 20 servings
Difficulty: easy
Ingredients:
- 1 1/3 cups butter at room temperature
- 1/2 cup (tea) sugar
- 1/2 cup (tea) brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon powdered ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon grated nutmeg
- 1 1/2 cups (tea) wheat flour (approximately)
- Wheat flour for dusting
- Margarine for greasing
Icing
- 500 g of icing sugar
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- Red and green gel colors as desired
Preparation method:
- In a mixer, beat the butter and sugar until a soft cream forms.
- Add the cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and beat quickly to combine.
- Remove from the mixer and add the flour, knead until a smooth dough forms that does not stick to your hands. If necessary, add more flour.
- Wrap in cling film and refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Remove from the oven and roll out the dough with a rolling pin on a floured surface.
- Cut out the Christmas motifs with the cutters and place them on a baking tray lined with greased baking paper.
- Place in a preheated medium oven for 10 minutes, without browning.
- Remove from the oven and leave to cool.
- For the icing, beat the egg whites and 1/3 of the icing sugar in a mixer for 2 minutes.
- Add the juice and continue whisking, without stopping.
- Add the remaining sugar, little at a time, until a smooth, white and opaque cream forms.
- Divide the cream into 3 parts and dye one with red dye and the other with green dye, until you reach the desired colors.
- Decorate the biscuits with the icing, using a piping bag with a smooth nozzle.
- Leave to dry and serve the special Christmas biscuits.
Source: Terra
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