Cake queen Helen has a great recipe for Rudolf cookies - guaranteed to get you into a Christmassy mood!
You will need:
8oz self raising flour
4oz caster sugar
4 oz butter or baking margarine like stork
one egg, beaten
Optional flavouring - ground ginger, vanilla essence, lemon flavouring... whatever you like!
Gingerbread man cookie cutter (turn it upside down and it's a reindeer cookie cutter!)
Method:
- Mix sugar and flour then rub in the butter until it forms a breadcrumb-like texture.
- Combine dry mixture with the beaten egg
- At this stage, you could add a flavouring like vanilla, almond or lemon... or even a good pinch of ginger!
- Bring the mixture together to form a dough.
- Chill In fridge for one hour
- Roll out the dough on a floured board and use a gingerbread man cutter to cut out the cookies.
- Place cookies on a greased baking tray and bake at 175 for 10-15 mins. The cookies should be a nice golden brown... don't let them burn!
- Allow the cookies to cool on a wire rack.
- When cool, turn the gingerbread man shapes upside down - they now look like reindeer faces!
- Decorate using chocolate writing pens or icing pens from any good supermarket, a bit of red 'royal' icing for the nose and edible googly eyes!
- Only one thing left - test out your cookies! Perfect for sharing with family and friends. Mmmm!
Cathy says:
Oooh! These look easy enough even for me to try... this is a perfect pre-Christmas baking project! Do YOU have a favourite festive recipe? COMMENT BELOW to have your say!
8oz self raising flour
4oz caster sugar
4 oz butter or baking margarine like stork
one egg, beaten
Optional flavouring - ground ginger, vanilla essence, lemon flavouring... whatever you like!
Gingerbread man cookie cutter (turn it upside down and it's a reindeer cookie cutter!)
Method:
- Mix sugar and flour then rub in the butter until it forms a breadcrumb-like texture.
- Combine dry mixture with the beaten egg
- Bring the mixture together to form a dough.
- Chill In fridge for one hour
- Roll out the dough on a floured board and use a gingerbread man cutter to cut out the cookies.
- Place cookies on a greased baking tray and bake at 175 for 10-15 mins. The cookies should be a nice golden brown... don't let them burn!
- Allow the cookies to cool on a wire rack.
- Decorate using chocolate writing pens or icing pens from any good supermarket, a bit of red 'royal' icing for the nose and edible googly eyes!
- Only one thing left - test out your cookies! Perfect for sharing with family and friends. Mmmm!
Cathy says:
Oooh! These look easy enough even for me to try... this is a perfect pre-Christmas baking project! Do YOU have a favourite festive recipe? COMMENT BELOW to have your say!
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