COOKIES to HANG on the CHRISTMAS TREE scented with orange, perfect Christmas sweets to give as gifts, easy and quick recipe, soft and delicious, scented with butter, also great with tangerine or raisins.
These cookies to hang on the Christmas tree are delicious and perfect, they melt in your mouth, great with almonds but they are also very good with hazelnuts or walnuts.
The recipe for cookies to hang on the Christmas tree is very simple, you prepare the almond shortcrust pastry by hand or with a processor, then make little rolls and close them into rings.
Very simple and good, you can make the cookies with the typical Christmas cookie cutters with a hole to insert the ribbon.
Follow me in the kitchen today there are cookies to hang on the Christmas tree.
- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Very cheap
- Preparation time: 20 Minutes
- Portions: 20
- Cooking methods: Oven
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: All seasons
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 7 oz almonds
- 3/4 cup butter
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 3 tbsp orange juice
- orange zest
Steps
Pour the flour into a bowl or processor and add the baking powder, mix well then chop the almonds with the sugar and orange zest and add them to the flour.
Add the butter and start kneading, add the orange juice one tablespoon at a time until you can mix the dough well.
Divide the dough into 20 pieces, make rolls on the floured surface, fold them in half twisting them onto themselves then close them into rings and if you prefer decorate with an almond.
Place the cookies on the baking sheet lined with paper and place an almond in the center, bake and cook in the hot oven at 355°F for about 15 minutes.
Bon appétit
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