Christmas Cookies
Ingredients
- Plain flour 300 gm
- Salt pinch
- Baking powder 1 tsp
- Cinnamon pinch
- Nutmeg pinch
- Ground pepper ½ tsp
- Butter 100 gm
- Orange 1
- Dark brown sugar 100 gm
- Eggs 2
- Honey 4 tbsp
Ingredients For The Icing
- Sliver balls as required
- Golden balls as required
- Icing sugar sieved 150 gm
- Boiling water 1 ½ tbsp
Method
- Beat eggs well with the honey,combine the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and pepper in a bowl using a whisk until well mixed. Beat the butter and sugar well and add the orange zest.
- Then add the flour and start kneading into a dough adding the beaten eggs gradually until a firm dough in formed. You may not require to use all the egg mixture.
- Divide dough into 2 balls or discs. keep one in the freezer while you work with the other.Preheat oven to 180 C.and prepare a baking sheet.Dust the rolling board with flour and start rolling the dough out till 5 mm thick .
- And then using cookie cutters cut out shapes from the dough and start setting on the baking sheet. Continue this process till all the dough is used up. bake in a preheated oven for 15 to 20 minutes until firm not brown or even golden.
- Transfer onto a wire rack and cool completely.Make the icing by mixing the boiling water with the sifted icing sugar until you have a smooth glossy glaze. Spread the glace on the cookie and finish with silver and golden balls.
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