Another post about Christmas. This time it is about making your own Christmas cookies.
I hope to inspire you to make your own cookies with fancy designs that I will show you.
I hope to inspire you to make your own cookies with fancy designs that I will show you.
I will show you 2 types of cookies. One with star shapes and the other one chocolate chip. When I made them I think I almost ate all of the chocolate chip ones as they were just so delicious and I will defiantly make them again!
The ingredients are as following:
Self Raising Flour - 12 oz or 340 g
Soft Margarine - 8 oz or 230 g
Caster Sugar - 8 oz or 230 g
(optional) Chocolate Chip -2 oz or 55 g
This is for about 20-25 biscuits but it depends more on how you make it. Also pre-heat the oven to 180 degrees.
Self Raising Flour - 12 oz or 340 g
Soft Margarine - 8 oz or 230 g
Caster Sugar - 8 oz or 230 g
(optional) Chocolate Chip -2 oz or 55 g
This is for about 20-25 biscuits but it depends more on how you make it. Also pre-heat the oven to 180 degrees.
After you got everything together put everything into a bowl and start mixing it with your hands. Unfortunately it is going to get messy. Keep mixing until it transforms into a soft dough that sticks together so it isn't in lumps. If you think it is to dry then add just a little bit of extra butter to it to make it to your perfection but other than that don't make too sticky . It is better to mix it all together first and then wait for the result. Before adding something extra.
Before rolling it out separate the dough into 2 and put the other one on one side like I have done. This is only if you want to make 2 types of cookies. if you are sticking to 1 then just ignore the sentence her above.
Anyways start rolling the dough out till it is thin enough to print shapes into it.
Anyways start rolling the dough out till it is thin enough to print shapes into it.
And voila. I have printed the star shapes into the dough. You can also make your own shape if you are a real expert or really want to have a challenge but I just took the easy method.
After getting as much as you can out of the dough place the stars onto the greased baking tray. You can also get some baking paper if you prefer that. Then pop them into the oven for 15 min. Keep checking that they are not getting attached to the each other.
Then mix the chocolate chip with the dough that you set aside and get a little bit like me or if you like larger cookies then that is your choice.
Then roll it out and place this onto a greased tray or baking paper as you prefer.
When the cookies are in the oven you can start to clear up or start to make icing. I was going to make a Christmas tree as you can see in one of the images above but later remembered that I had finished the colour green.
Anyways here I am showing how you can make this pretty design.
Anyways here I am showing how you can make this pretty design.
After putting some icing on it you can put some decorations onto it.
Tada the you are finished. This took me about half a hour so not that long . so easily can make a lot of cookies.
Which one of the design is your favroute?
Which one of the design is your favroute?