Brandied Butter Wreath Cookies * christmas *. Brandied Butter Wreath Cookies * christmas * i love these cookies! the brandy really sets them off! time consuming but worth every minute! renee. Cream butter and sugar, then beat in yolk and brandy. Blend in flour, little by little, mixing well after each addition. Wrap dough in waxed paper and chill for at least an hour. Twist pairs of these together and join ends to form circles.
Brandied Butter Wreath Cookies * christmas * i love these cookies! the brandy really sets them off! time consuming but worth every minute! fenway.
The shape looks beautiful all on its own!
For the Christmas wreath cookies, liberally sprinkle green sanding sugar on the cookies after piping and before freezing.
You can have Brandied Butter Wreath Cookies * christmas * using 6 ingredients and 19 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Brandied Butter Wreath Cookies * christmas *
- Prepare 1 cup of soft butter or margarine.
- It's 2 cup of flour.
- Prepare 2/3 cup of powdered sugar, sifted.
- It's 2 tbsp of brandy (any flavor u would like).
- You need 1 of flour as needed (see direction #2).
- It's 1 of various xmas sprinkles, see direction #14.
After the cookies are baked, you can press the large holly berry sprinkles into the cookies. Dip tops of half of the cookies in green glaze. (Save remaining cookies for another use.) Decorate with sprinkles and candies. Stir enough remaining confectioners' sugar into the red glaze to achieve piping consistency. Start with our easy vanilla cookie dough and make five different kinds of thumbprint cookies as well as three different ball cookies.
Brandied Butter Wreath Cookies * christmas * instructions
- mix all ingredients together to form a workable dough..
- if to wet add flour as needed until it stretches easily and molds well..
- refridgerate dough for an hour..
- preheat oven to 350.
- this will not stick to your countertop or hands as it is greasy. so no additional flour is needed on surface in order to roll this out..
- grab a small ball of dough and gently with 2 hands roll the dough into long thin logs about the size of a #2 pencil in width and 12 inches long..
- cut the 12 inch long in half..
- pinch together one side..
- twist the rolls around each other..
- shape the twist into a circle and pinch all ends together. this form your wreath...
- place onto parchment lined cookie sheet or spray with baking spray..
- repeat until u have no dough left..
- for the decorations....
- u can use any xmas type sprinkles, green & red sugar crystals, red dots, green sprinkles, red sprinkles, nonparalels, small shapes.. this section u will see all the different designs I made with the sprinkles. click on pic to see directions for that design..
- once they are all decorated place baking shhet full of decorated cookies onto middle/upper oven rack and bake for 10 min. or until bottoms of cookies are golden and cookies have "firmed up".
- cool on wire rack..
- serve! :).
- enjoy!.
- just to let u know.. these cookies are time consuming because of the rolling, twisting and decorating. but they are so cute and so pretty and really decorate up a table so it well worth it.. oh and the flavor.. is awesome!.
It's all about adding citrus zest , cinnamon, or cocoa powder to plain vanilla dough, and decorating with a variety of toppings from ganache to peppermints , to make a marvelous array of treats. These cookies look like little Christmas Wreaths and are great fun for the kids to help with. People always look at these suspiciously, but once they try them, they can't get enough. Complete with butter, cream cheese, vanilla, and sugar, these holiday cookies are a must-have. These favorite Christmas cookie recipes are treats you'll want to save so you can make them again and again.