I know I've taken so long to update but as you can tell by the heading that this weeks update is a little different and out of my comfort zone, but it was a lot of fun; so this week I'm going to do a step by step guide on how to make some alternative Christmas cookies.
Pinch of salt
1/4 teaspoon of Ground Cinnamon
150g or 5oz of Butter
50g or 2oz of Caster Sugar
1 Table Spoon of Water
Caster Sugar to Glaze
Icing-
50g or 2oz of Icing Sugar
1 Table Spoon of Water
Food Colouring ( Red & Green) Fluff
The first thing your going to need to do is turn the oven on to 180 or mark 4 depending on your oven.
Then you need to sift the plain flour and cinnamon into a bowl.
Then stir in the caster sugar
Create a small well in the middle of the mixture, using a spoon
Add the water into the well, then you want to move the bowl around in a circular motion so that the water has mixed into the mixture.
Squeeze the mixture together so that it looks like dough, you have to repeat the last step before it combines together into a dough.
Then flour the work top so that the dough doesn't stick.
Knead the dough until smooth
Make the dough so that it's into a ball, add more flour to the tops and rolling pin, so that it doesn't all stick together.
Roll until it's as thick as a £1 coin.
Using your Christmas cutters, start cutting out the cookies and placing them on a baking tray (use baking paper so that they don't stick, also saves washing up!)
Repeat the process until all dough is used up.
Using a brush, gently brush water onto all the cookies.
Sprinkle on caster sugar, this just gives the cookies a nice glaze and makes the tops crispy.
Pop them in the oven for around 15-20 minutes.
Once cooked, place them gentle onto a cooling rack.
Whilst waiting for the cookies to cool make up the icing, for this you will need the following (shown in picture to side)
Once you've measured out the icing sugar, split it into two bowls, add a teaspoon of water into each mix until all is mixed in.
Then add food coloring to each and mix again.
Ideally you want them at a medium consistency, so not overly runny but then not really thick.
Spread the fluff onto as many cookies as you wish.
Once you've done with one, arrange them on a Christmasy plate.
Make sure your happy were you've placed them as you wont be able to move them until ready to eat!
Using a spoon carefully sprinkle the red food coloring onto the cookies.
Then do the same with the green food coloring, as you can see it's works better if you have a fairly runny texture but you still want it quite thick so that there not swimming in icing, also if it's overly thick it will be harder to sprinkle over.
Then using a small sieve, sift over some icing sugar so it looks like snow.
Then your all finished and ready to eat!
I hope you all try this really easy recipe and I hope you enjoy them as much as I do! You can make these throughout the year just use different cutters, they always go down a treat!
Make sure you check back tomorrow, where I will be posting my final Blogmas post!
Lots of Festive Love
Carries Closet xo
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