Christmas shortbread cookies are easy to make and beautiful to look at. Christmas is approaching and are you thinking about original gifts? You might consider giving these cute cookies to your friends and family. Quick to make, you can decorate them with your children, which will be very fun. Crumbly and delicate in flavor, they will conquer everyone’s palate!
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You can gift these cookies in a Christmas Cookie Box
- Difficulty: Easy
- Cost: Cheap
- Rest time: 1 Hour
- Preparation time: 15 Minutes
- Portions: 20 Pieces
- Cooking methods: Oven
- Seasonality: Winter
Ingredients
- 1 egg yolk
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2/3 cup butter
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 packet vanillin
- lemon zest
- 1 pinch salt
- colored gel food markers
- to taste colored sprinkles
Tools
- Cookie Cutters
- Rolling Pin
Steps
To make the Christmas shortbread cookies, pour the flour into a bowl, add the salt and cold butter cut into pieces. Knead until you get a sandy mixture.
Add the egg yolk, sugar, vanillin (or lemon zest) and knead. It should become a homogeneous mixture; if at first you see it doesn’t mix quickly, don’t be discouraged and continue blending the ingredients. It will be a very smooth and compact dough. Form a ball, cover it with plastic wrap and let it rest in the fridge for an hour.
After the resting time, use a rolling pin to soften the shortbread dough and make cookies with the appropriate molds: snowman, balls, and Christmas trees, or star shapes.
Bake in a preheated oven at 350°F for 15 minutes, until golden. Once ready, place them on a wire rack to cool.
Decorate the cookies with colored gel food markers, letting your creativity flow. The cookies will be good for a week if stored in a box or cookie jar.
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