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Christmas Cookies

December 15, 2017
by Chelsea Winter
8 Comments

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Christmas cookies

Christmas Cookies

These delightful little biscuits (from 2016’s bestselling cookbook, Scrumptious) are bound to make even the surliest of Grinches come alight with a little festive cheer. Well, just look at them – absolutely delicious and rather adorable – what more could you ask for in a Christmas cookie? I prefer to use Gregg’s spices for this recipe – buy them fresh if you can!

Makes approx. 25-30 cookies
Prep time: 20 minutes
Cooking time:15 minutes

Ingredients

75g butter
2/3 cup golden syrup
½ cup brown sugar
2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp mixed spice
1 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp cinnamon
Pinch salt
1 free-range egg, separated
Silver cachous

Icing
1 egg white (from the above egg)
1 ½ cups icing sugar
1-2 tsp lemon juice
1 tsp vanilla essence

 

Method

Add the butter, golden syrup and brown sugar to a saucepan over a medium heat. Stir until melted, then turn up the heat to high and let it just come to a boil. Remove from the heat immediately, set aside and let it cool for 15 minutes or until just warm. Whisk in the egg yolk.

Sift the flour, baking soda, ginger, mixed spice, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt into a mixing bowl and stir to combine with a whisk. Add to the melted butter mixture and stir with a wooden spoon until evenly combined.

Lay a couple of sheets of clingfilm slightly overlapping on the bench and tip the mixture out on to it. Shape into a disc and wrap it up. Refrigerate for 30 minutes to an hour, or until needed.

Preheat oven to 160c regular bake and line a baking tray with baking paper.

Divide the dough into four even pieces, then divide each of those pieces into eight, so you’re left without about 32 pieces. Roll into balls and place on the baking tray about 5cm apart, as they will increase in size while they cook.

Bake in the oven for 15 minutes. Set aside on a cooling tray and repeat with the remaining balls if you need to.

When you’re finished, reduce the oven temperature to 100c.

 

Icing

Add the egg white to a mixing bowl and beat lightly. Add 1 tsp the lemon juice and vanilla essence, and sift in the icing sugar. Stir to combine. If it needs more liquid, add more lemon juice – you don’t want it too runny though.

Add all the biscuits back on to the tray, then spoon or pipe a blob of the icing on to the centre of the the biscuits. You don’t need to spread it on, it will naturally spread out after a while. These don’t have to look perfect – some of it will end up running off on to the tray. Sprinkle on a few cachous on each biscuit, then return them to the oven for another 30 – 60 seconds to set the icing. Remove and allow to cool completely.

I like these better the day after when they go a little soft!

 

8 Comments
  1. Mackay Sherry December 26, 2017 at 9:30 am Reply
    These look very cute. Merry Christmas ?
  2. Lucy January 3, 2018 at 3:22 am Reply
    Hi Chelsea! In the Chicken Fettucine recipe it says 'reduced chicken stock' but i only have 'chicken stock', what should i do instead??? Thanks heaps (and yes i know this isnt about the cookie recipe!)
    • Chelsea Winter March 7, 2018 at 12:57 am Reply
      You reduce the chicken stock at the beginning using the standard chicken stock :)
  3. Karen March 30, 2018 at 12:46 pm Reply
    Hi Chelsea Is it possible pretty please when posting a recipe to put what book it is from Thanks so much Karen
    • Chelsea Winter April 16, 2018 at 3:09 am Reply
      Sorry yes these are from Scrumptious x
  4. Purupuss December 10, 2019 at 9:06 pm Reply
    You've made me a Grinch by calling these "cookies". We're New Zealanders and New Zealanders have always called these tasty goodies: biscuits. Just another example of how we're becoming Americanised.
    • Chelsea Winter December 11, 2019 at 12:01 am Reply
      I love the word cookies! It's cute :)
  5. Amy S December 24, 2019 at 12:33 pm Reply
    Hello :) I just made these. I reduced the time by 2 minutes as my first batch were burnt on the bottom. They smell delicious can’t wait to ice them in the morning

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