recipe: simple christmas cookies.

Today's recipe is a very simple one and perfect for beginners like me (ahem). My mum used to make these when my sister and I were little and she's still making them, It's kind of a tradition and Christmas without these, wouldn't be a real christmas. At least for me.

Ingrediants:

dough:

• 250g flour
• 125g sugar
• 150g butter
• 1 egg

icing:

• 125g icing sugar
• 2-3 tbsp lemon juice
• differnt toppings, like chocolate chips, chopped hazelnuts, raisins...

preparation time: 40 min 

rest time: 1 hour (can be skipped, if necessary)

Method:

1. Give flour, sugar, butter and the egg in a bowl. Knead all ingrediants with your hands, until you get a smooth and tight dough. Roll a ball, and wrap it in cling film. Let the dough rest for an hour (or more) in your fridge.
2. Pre-head oven to 180°C. Put baking paper  on a baking tin and start to roll the dough about 3 to 4 mm.
3. Choose your favourite cutters and cut out your cookies. Place them on the baking tin and bake them for about 10 min until they are golden.
4. When the cookies cooled down, take a knife or brush to cover the cookies with the icing.  For the icing mix icing sugar and lemon juice (tip: add lemon juice one by one. So you can see, how much juice you'll need.) Add the toppings before it dries.
5. Now they're ready to eat serve.

This recipe can be used any time, not only for christmas. It's someone's birthday and you want to give him something special and self-made? Why not bake some cookies? You could add chocolate chips or other things the person may like. Just experiement. That's the fun part of baking!

I hope you enjoyed this post.

Happy Baking!

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*see the storage jar with the squirrel lit? It's my present from Secret Santa. After a lot of swapping and laughing , I ended up getting this. And I love it. It's so cute, isn't it?!       {all pictures taken by me }