Christmas cookies

December 29, 2020

1:30 hour

medium

8-12

One of my family’s traditions during this time of the year, is to bake cookies to share for Christmas time. These are ginger, cinnamon and orange cookies. My little one loves to decorate them!

Here I share the recipe and a few ideas of decoration. Happy Holidays and have fun!

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Ingredients

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	200 grs butter
	2 cups self raising flour
	1 egg
	1 tsp cinnamon
	1 tsp ground ginger
	100 grs sugar
	1 tsp orange extract
	-PARA DECORAR:
	*Royal icing (no egg version):
	100 grs Icing sugar
	3 tbsp water
	1/2 lemon juice
	*Marzipan:
	200 grs sugar
	200 grs ground almonds
	1 egg
	*Others: Fondant
	Colorants
	Sprinkles

Directions

1.

Make the pastry

In a bowl, put the butter and sugar and mix until they are lightened in colour and fluffy. Add the egg and orange extract and beat until combined. Then start adding the flour mixed with the cinnamon and ginger.

Form a dough, cover it with cling film and leave it in the fridge for an hour.

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2.

Cut the cookies and bake

Preheat oven to 180˚C. Cut the cookies shapes out and bake them for about 12 minutes.

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3.

Cool and decorate the cookies

Leave the cookies to cool on a rack before decorating.

*I’ve listed the ingredients we used to decorate the cookies in this occasion. But use your imagination and create, is unlimited the options you have to decorate them.

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