Decorated Christmas cookies with cinnamon shortcrust pastry, simple and delicious Christmas cookies, perfect also as a gift idea, decorated with milk chocolate and also ideal to hang with an easy trick that I will reveal in the recipe, to be done just as you take the cookies out of the oven.
To decorate them you can also use the white icing with egg white, really very simple to make.
The decorated Christmas cookies with cinnamon shortcrust pastry have a fragrant base of cinnamon shortcrust pastry very easy to make, that does not stick.
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Below, I leave you some delicious sweet ideas to make for Christmas
- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Very cheap
- Rest time: 50 Minutes
- Preparation time: 25 Minutes
- Portions: About 20 cookies, depending on the cookie cutters used
- Cooking methods: Electric oven, Microwave, Bain-marie
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: Christmas
Ingredients for the shortcrust pastry
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 9 tbsp powdered sugar
- 6 1/3 tbsp butter
- 1 egg
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon (Not full)
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 2 oz milk chocolate
Tools
- 1 Bowl
- 1 Fork
- 1 Rolling pin
- 1 Pastry board
- 1 Parchment paper
- 1 Cookie cutter
- 1 Baking tray
Steps
To make the Decorated Christmas Cookies with Cinnamon Shortcrust Pastry, first we make the shortcrust pastry base.
In a bowl, pour the flour, add the powdered sugar, baking powder, cinnamon.
With the help of a fork, mix the dry ingredients.
Create a well in the center and pour the butter cut into pieces and the whole egg with the yolk.
Quickly mix with a fork and then continue kneading by hand.
You need to get a sandy dough.
Pour it onto a pastry board and work it quickly by hand, gathering all the dough present on the table until you get a smooth and homogeneous dough ball.
Wrap in plastic wrap or parchment paper and let it rest in the fridge for about 20 minutes.
Take the shortcrust pastry and work it quickly first by hand and then with a rolling pin.
Roll it out into a base about 0.4 inches thick.
Cut out Christmas shapes with your preferred cutters and arrange them on a baking tray with parchment paper.
Work the dough until finished.
Once this operation is finished, bake the cookies in a preheated oven at 350°F for 12-14 minutes.
They should remain light in color.
If you want to make holes to pass the thread, use a toothpick when they are still hot, acting very gently.
Repeat on the back of the cookie as well.
Let the cookies cool completely before decorating them.
I chose to melt the milk chocolate in the microwave and make small decorations on the cookie surface.
The cookies are ready, perfect also as a gift idea.
Read below on how to decorate them.
