Christmas Cookie Box: many different cookies with one dough, easy and fun to make!
A simple dough with eggs, butter, sugar, and flour, divided and completed with potato starch or unsweetened cocoa powder, left to rest and used to create a variety of cookies, quick baking, and some customization with melted chocolate to prepare a beautiful Christmas gift that delights the eyes as well!
Read how to make a Christmas cookie box with the recipe you find below, as usual, right after the photo 😉
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- Difficulty: Easy
- Cost: Economical
- Rest time: 3 Hours
- Preparation time: 1 Hour
- Portions: 1 cookie box
- Cooking methods: Oven
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: Christmas
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 7/8 cup butter
- 3 egg yolks
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tbsp potato starch
- 2 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/3 cup white chocolate
- 1/3 cup dark chocolate
- dark chocolate chips
- white chocolate chips
- jam (of choice)
- hazelnut cream
to present the cookies
- 1 Cookie Cutters Tin Box
Preparation of the Christmas Cookie Box
In a bowl, beat the softened butter cut into small pieces with the sugar until you get a smooth cream.
Add the egg yolks, one at a time, always mixing with the whisks to incorporate them into the mixture.
Add the flour and mix until the mixture is smooth.Divide it into two equal parts: add the potato starch to one part, kneading until perfectly incorporated, and add the unsweetened cocoa to the other part, kneading thoroughly.
Form a dough ball with each of the two parts, wrap them in cling film, and let them rest in the refrigerator for three hours.After the resting time, take one dough ball at a time and roll out the dough on a lightly floured work surface.
Cut out cookies with Christmas-shaped cutters, re-knead the scraps, and add chocolate chips to one part of the dough to make cookies, form ropes and shape them into horseshoes, or twist two ropes of different doughs to make twisted cookies, etc., letting your creativity run wild.Arrange the shaped cookies on baking sheets lined with parchment paper and bake them in a static oven at 350°F for twelve minutes.
Take them out of the oven and let them cool completely.
Fill the cookies to be paired with jam or hazelnut cream.Melt the white and dark chocolate in a double boiler or microwave and dip the cookies according to your taste and creativity.
Let the melted chocolate dry completely before storing everything in the cookie box for Christmas.
They keep well closed for up to a week.
Notes
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