Christmas Tree Cookies. Cut out an even number of cookies with each size cookie cutter. Immediately cut half of each size tree cookies in half from top to bottom. Mix confectioners' sugar, butter or margarine, egg, vanilla, and almond extract.
Make a batch of gingerbread, spritz cookies, thumbprints, shortbread, or biscotti to celebrate the most festive time of the year. Last year, I didn't do any Christmas baking. I didn't even get a Christmas tree or any decorations.
Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we're going to prepare a special dish, christmas tree cookies. One of my favorites. This time, I'm gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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Cut out an even number of cookies with each size cookie cutter. Immediately cut half of each size tree cookies in half from top to bottom. Mix confectioners' sugar, butter or margarine, egg, vanilla, and almond extract.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have christmas tree cookies using 5 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas Tree Cookies:
- {Make ready 120 grams of Margarine.
- {Make ready 200 grams of White flour.
- {Prepare 70 grams of Sugar.
- {Take 1 of Egg yolk.
- {Take 1 of Powdered sugar, dragées, chocoate writing pen, etc.
Then, use a Christmas-tree-shaped cookie cutter to cut out the cookies from the dough, and bake the cookies in the oven. While the cookies are baking, mix green food coloring with frosting. Mix in egg and vanilla and almond extracts. See more ideas about Christmas tree cookies, Sugar cookies decorated, Tree cookies.
Steps to make Christmas Tree Cookies:
- Sift the flour once. Microwave the margarine for about 20 seconds, and mix well with a whisk..
- Add sugar to Step 1, and mix. Add egg yolk, and mix some more..
- Sift in the flour (for the second time) to Step 2, and fold in with a spatula..
- When the mixture is no longer floury, cover with plastic wrap, and let it sit in the fridge for at least 30 minutes..
- Before cutting out the shapes, preheat the oven for 170℃ (340℉)..
- Cut out stars, place on a baking sheet lined with a parchment paper, and bake for 20 minutes at 170℃ (340℉)..
- When you bake the second batch, the oven is already hot, so bake for 5 minutes less..
- Stack the cookies, largest to smallest, putting deformed and burnt small ones in between to stack the tree..
- Decorate with powdered sugar and dragées, and you're done! If you are outlining the cookies along the outer edges with a chocolate writing pen, it's better to do it before stacking them..
- These are the star shaped cookie cutters I used. I bought at a 100 yen shop..
- This is another version of the Christmas Tree cookie..
Repeat adding smaller-sized star cookies and attaching them with royal icing. Decorate the cookie Christmas tree with royal icing, silver balls, and other holiday decor. Roll out yellow fondant and cut out a small star to place on top of the cookie tree and secure with royal icing. Decorate remaining cookies to your liking. Using prepared cookie dough gives you a nice head start to your own little forest of Christmas trees.
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