The recipe for these year round cookies is from the mother of my best friend. Usually baked before christmas. But with so many different motives of cookie cutters to choose from, she bakes these cookies all year round.
Her husband and some of his friends ride motorcycles, she bakes some. She has found 3 different motorcycle cookie cutters. Then she has others like household items, gardening stuff, all kinds of flowers and animals, letters and numbers.
The ones I have a pretty basic. But she gave me a box set of 10 different start cutters to create christmas trees. Bake lots and lots of stars in various sizes and stack them on each other with icing. That box was sitting around now for 2 seasons without even beeing opened. Now we are back in lockdown and not encouraged to meet people, I have time to bake.
Recipe:
500 g AP flour, 250 g cold unsalted butter, 250 g sugar
2 eggs, 1/4 tsp baking powder, pinch of salt,
Some vanilla, rum or butter aroma (optional) I did not use any
Egg wash
The cookie dough needs to rest over night. Prepare it the evening before you will bake, it is no problem to store it for 2 days.
On a good floured surface roll out a third of the dough in 3 - 5 mm thickness.
Tranfer to a baking paper lined baking tray. Brush with egg wash.
At 175 C bake them 10- 13 min, depending on the thickness. Let them cool down on a rack for several hours, then store in an airtight container.
Stacked up they wont make a forest of christmas trees. Bake an other batch.
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