Christmas biscuit recipes: How to make Christmas cookies
CHRISTMAS is a time for indulging in sweet treats, so why not whip up some Christmas biscuits over the festive period? Here's the best Christmas cookie recipe.
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Christmas biscuits and cookies may not be the traditional Christmas dessert, but they’re a delicious snack for the weeks leading up to the big day. Not sure how to make them? Follow this BBC Good Food Snowman cookie recipe.
How to make Christmas cookies
Ingredients
- 125g butter, softened
- 125g golden caster sugar
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 250g plain flour, plus extra for dusting
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For the decoration
400g white fondant icing
icing sugar, for dusting
100g pack mixed red, yellow, black and blue ready-to-roll icing
tube white icing, for sticking
tube black icing
Method
Step one
Heat the oven to 190C/170C fan/gas five.
Cream the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy, then beat in the egg and vanilla.
Stir in the flour and mix to a fairly soft dough.
Tip onto a lightly floured surface and knead gently.
Put the dough on a plate, cover and chill for at least two hours.
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Step two
On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough to a thickness of around 0.5cm.
Use a cookie cutter or water glass to stamp out seven centimetre rounds.
Re-roll the trimmings and repeat.
Transfer the biscuits to two lined baking trays and bake for eight to 14 mins until the edges turn lightly golden in colour. Leave to cool.
To decorate, roll out the white fondant icing on a surface lightly dusted with icing sugar.
Stamp out seven centimetre circles using the same cookie cutter or glass as before, then use a dab of the white tube of icing to stick a fondant round on each biscuit.
Step five
Knead together some of the yellow and blue icing to make green icing, then do the same with the red and yellow icing to make orange (alternatively, buy separate packs of each colour).
Roll out one icing colour at a time. Stamp out a seven centimetre circle of icing, cut in half and stick on for a hat.
Cut a strip of another colour and make some markings to make it look like the elasticated band of a hat, then trim to fit and stick on.
Repeat with all the biscuits, mixing and matching colours.
Step six
Decorate the hats with icing spots and stripes, if you like.
Roll out balls of coloured icing, poke holes all over with a cocktail stick and stick on as pom-poms.
Mould lumpy balls of the orange icing for noses and roll out balls of the black icing for eyes.
Press down to flatten, then stick on with white icing.
Use the tube of black icing to pipe rows of dots for the smiles.
Leave to set. Eat immediately or keep them in an airtight container for up to five days.