I thought that I would share with you another recipe today, and this one if for Christmas Sugar Cookies as I thought that a Christmas cookie is the perfect thing to bake a t this time of year so lets get on to the recipe:
What you'll need:
375g of plain flour
365g of Icing Sugar
250g of butter
1 tablespoon of vanilla extract
1 medium egg
What you need to do:
So start off by combining the flour, butter and 140 grams of the icing sugar (the rest is for the icing). You may want to add the butter in chinks to make it easier to mix; once that's all mixed together add in the vanilla extract and just the yolk of the egg but don't throw away the egg white because you'll need that for the icing. When everything has been mixed together it should form a dough; you want to wrap all of the dough in cling film and place it in the fridge for 30 minutes. while it's in the fridge you can prepare the baking trays by cutting out a piece of parchment paper that's the size of your tray, then add a thin layer of butter around the edge of the tray and place the paper on top (the butter will make it easier for you to place the cookies of the tray), you'll also want to preheat your oven to 180 degrees. After the dough in the fridge for 30 minutes take it out, sprinkle flour on your worktop and place the dough on top of the flour ready to roll it out.you want to roll out the dough until it is about 1/2 a centimetre thick, if there isn't enough room on you worktop to roll out the dough all at once then just break off a smaller piece of the dough to roll out. After you've rolled out the dough you can cut out some shapes. Now you can use whatever shapes you like I used Christmas trees, gingerbread men and stars as I was going with a Christmassy theme but you can use whatever shapes you like. Place the cut out cookies on the tray and then roll back up the rest of the dough into a ball roll it out and cut out some more shapes; repeat this process till all of the dough has been used. After you have placed all of your cookies on your baking trays you want to put them in the oven. They should take around 8-10 minutes to cook but take them out when they are a nice golden brown colour and place them on a cooling rack so they cool down faster. While your cookies are cooling down you can make the icing, so you want to mix together the other 225 grams of icing sugar and the egg white we saved from earlier, if the icing is too thick then add small amounts of cold water until its thin enough, if its too thin then keep adding more icing sugar so that the icing thickens up. Your icing shouldn't be too thick or too thin it should be spreadable but not runny; a quick test you can do when you think its the right consistency is to set it a side for a minute or two and if the mixture has just started to settle a little then it is right. Now once your icing has been made and placed into a piping bag then your cookies should be cool enough to ice; if there not quite cool then try placing them in the fridge for a couple of minutes but don't try to ice onto warm cookies because then the icing will run. You can decorate your cookies however you like I just iced them however I felt like and added on different Christmassy sprinkles. All that's left to do is let the icing set then you can tuck in and enjoy your cookies.
This recipe is perfect to serve at a Christmas party or place a few in a bag or jar and give as a gift to someone for Christmas, let me know if you try out the recipe, see you on Monday,
Charlotte x
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