5 most delicious cookie recipes to try for Christmas

Christmas is not without sweets. We offer you a selection of simple traditional cookie recipes that the whole family will like.

Marble Cookies

The main advantage of this baking is its unusual appearance. Cookies really look like marble, and it won't take long to make them.

Required Products:

• 250 g of flour;
• 1 tbsp. Sahara;
• 40 g of cocoa;
• 1 egg
• 1 tbsp. l sour cream;
• 150 g butter;
• 50 g of dark chocolate;
• 0.5 tsp baking powder;
• 1 pack of vanilla sugar;
• a pinch of salt.

Step-by-step cooking process:

1. The butter is beaten with sugar, sour cream and cocoa powder. Stir until smooth.
2. Chocolate is heated in the microwave, slightly cooled and gradually added to the dough.
3. Beat the dough with a mixer, pour the egg, pour a pinch of salt and vanillin.
4. The flour is mixed with baking powder, sieved through a sieve and added to the dough. Knead the product thoroughly until smooth. Cover with foil and send to the refrigerator for 3 hours.
5. Then they roll small balls, lightly press them with their hands and spread them on a baking sheet. Bake for 15 minutes at 180 ° C.

Before serving, the cookies are lightly sprinkled with icing sugar so that the marble pattern appears more clearly.

Christmas cookies "Trdlo"

Cookies with this unusual name are traditionally prepared for Christmas in the Czech Republic. But this original treat can be done independently.

For this we need:

• 500 g flour;
• 2 eggs;
• 70 g of butter;
• 150 ml of milk;
• 1 tsp dry yeast;
• 1 tbsp. l Sahara;
• 1 tsp salt.

Separately, a sprinkle is prepared from a glass of walnuts, a teaspoon of ground cinnamon and 5 tbsp. l Sahara.

We start to cook:

1. The yolks are separated from the proteins. In a stewpan, they heat the butter, cool it slightly, add the yolks and mix thoroughly. Pour milk and mix again.
2. Flour is mixed with sugar, yeast and salt. Poured into the egg-milk mixture and thoroughly knead the dough. If it turns out too thick, add milk.
3. The dough is rolled into a ball, covered with a film and put in a warm place.
4. Walnuts are chopped with a knife, mixed with sugar and cinnamon.
5. The dough is rolled out with a layer of a thickness of not more than 3 mm and cut into centimeter strips. The length can be any.
6. Trdlo has the shape of a hollow tube, so the sliced ​​dough should be wound on special metal tubes. They can be replaced with a sleeve from paper towels wrapped in foil. Strips of dough are wound with an overlap, greased with protein and sprinkled with a nut mixture.
7. The tubes are placed in a mold by weight and baked for 20 minutes at 200 degrees.

The cooled cookies are served hollow. But, if desired, the inside of the tubes can be filled with your favorite cream.

Gingerbread Cookie

Gingerbread cookie is a traditional Christmas treat. There are a lot of recipes for such a treat, but you can use the classic version.

Ingredients:

• 200 g of flour;
• 2 tsp ground ginger;
• 2 tsp ground cinnamon;
• 0.5 tsp ground black pepper;
• 5 g of baking powder;
• 100 g butter;
• 1 egg
• 1 tbsp. Sahara.

For decoration use glaze. It is prepared from 1 protein and half a glass of powdered sugar.

Step-by-step cooking process:

1. Grind sugar with eggs and soft butter. The dry ingredients — flour, baking powder, cinnamon, ginger and pepper — are mixed separately.
2. Both masses are mixed until smooth, so that the finished dough is not sticky to the hands.
3. Small balls are rolled from the resulting mixture and laid out on a parchment-covered form.Each ball is lightly pressed by hand.
4. Bake at 170 ° C for 20 minutes.
5. Whisk the protein with sugar. Cookies are coated with icing. Optionally, decorate with sprinkles.

Danish cookies with pepper

If you want to make an unusual Christmas dessert, you should try baking Danish cookies with pepper.

For him we need:

• 250 g of flour;
• 0.5 packs of butter;
• 100 g of powdered sugar;
• 1 egg
• 1.5 tsp baking powder;
• a pinch of white pepper;
• favorite spices - optional.

Step by step cooking:

1. Pound sugar with an egg and softened butter.
2. Add flour, baking powder, pepper and spices.
3. All ingredients are thoroughly mixed and rolled the dough into a bowl.
4. Next, small sausages are made from it and cut into portioned circles.
5. Bake in the form covered with parchment for 15 minutes at 180 ° C.

Kefir cookies without eggs

Simple but delicious cookies can be made without eggs. In this case, you need kefir, which will make the dessert more magnificent.

For the test you need:

1. 1 tbsp. flour with a hill;
2. 1/2 packet of butter;
3. 120 ml of kefir;
4. 6 tbsp. l Sahara;
5. a pinch of salt;
6. 1/2 tsp soda.
7. Optionally add an apple, ground cinnamon and ginger.

We start to cook:

1. Flour is mixed with 100 grams of butter. Stir until a homogeneous friable mass. Add salt, ginger and mix again.
2. Kefir is combined with soda and sugar, mixed until the granules dissolve and poured onto the dry ingredients. At this stage, you can add grated apple to the test.
3. Knead the dough, form a ball, and then divide it into 4 parts.
4. The first part is rolled into a thin layer, greased with butter and sprinkled with a mixture of sugar and cinnamon. Then they roll the dough into a roll and repeat the procedure with the remaining workpieces.
5. Rolls are kept in the refrigerator for half an hour, cut into slices and baked on parchment for 20 minutes.

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