Festive Cookies for Christmas Tree Decoration
Beautiful cookies that will make a great decoration for the New Year tree and pleasantly surprise with their taste. The decorating process can be turned into a fun family hobby together with children. This amount of ingredients yields from 50 to 100 pieces (depending on the size of the cookies).
- Total cooking time
- not set
- Number of servings
- 50
- Recipe difficulty
- 3 / 5
Ingredients
for 50 servings
- butter 150 g
- sugar 150 g
- vanilla sugar 2 tsp
- eggs 3
- ground ginger 1 tsp
- baking powder 2 tsp
- flour 450-500 g
- sugar glaze
- food coloring pencils
Instructions
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Cream the butter and sugar and vanilla sugar.
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Add the eggs.
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Mix together.
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Add ginger.
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Mix together.
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Stir in the baking powder and flour. Knead the dough.
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Roll out the dough to a thickness of 3–4 mm.
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Cut out shapes using a knife or cookie cutters.
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Lightly grease a baking pan with oil or line it with parchment paper. Arrange the pieces.
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Make a small hole in each piece (I used a wooden stick for this). Place in an oven preheated to 180 degrees. Bake for 10–15 minutes.
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Decorate the finished cookies to taste. Thread ribbons or strings through the holes.