Christmas Tree Cookies. Mix confectioners' sugar, butter or margarine, egg, vanilla, and almond extract. Stir in flour, baking soda, and cream of tartar. 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. Traditional Christmas Cookie Recipes Perfect for the Holiday Season Classic cookie recipes like these will instantly evoke warm Christmas memories.
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Last year, I didn't do any Christmas baking.
I didn't even get a Christmas tree or any decorations.
You can cook Christmas Tree Cookies using 5 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Christmas Tree Cookies
- It's 120 grams of Margarine.
- It's 200 grams of White flour.
- It's 70 grams of Sugar.
- Prepare 1 of Egg yolk.
- It's 1 of Powdered sugar, dragées, chocoate writing pen, etc.
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Christmas Tree Cookies step by step
- 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..
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