Christmas Cookie Box: many different cookies with a single dough, easy and fun to make!
A simple dough with eggs, butter, sugar, and flour, divided and completed with potato starch or cocoa powder, rested and used to make many different cookies, quick baking, and some other customization with melted chocolate to prepare a beautiful Christmas gift that is also eye-catching!
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: Affordable
- Rest time: 3 Hours
- Preparation time: 1 Hour
- Portions: 1 cookie box
- Cooking methods: Oven
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: Christmas
Ingredients
- 4/5 cup sugar
- 14 tbsp butter
- 3 egg yolks
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tbsp potato starch
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder
- 1.75 oz white chocolate
- 1.75 oz dark chocolate
- dark chocolate chips
- white chocolate chips
- jam (of choice)
- hazelnut spread
For presenting the cookies
- 1 Cookie Cutter Tin Box
Preparing the Christmas Cookie Box
In a bowl, beat the softened butter cut into pieces with the sugar until you obtain a smooth cream.
Add the egg yolks, one at a time, always mixing with the beaters to incorporate them into the mixture.
Add the flour and knead 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 cocoa powder 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.At the end of 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 cutters, re-knead the scraps and add chocolate chips to part of the dough to make cookies, form logs and make horseshoe cookies, or twist two logs of different dough to have twisted cookies, etc., giving space to your imagination.Place the cookies formed in this way on baking trays lined with parchment paper and bake them in a static oven at 350°F for twelve minutes.
Remove from the oven and let them cool completely.
Fill the cookies to be paired with jam or hazelnut spread.Melt the white and dark chocolate in a double boiler or in the microwave and dip the cookies following your tastes and imagination.
Let the melted chocolate dry completely before placing everything in the Christmas cookie box.
They keep well closed for up to a week.
Notes
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