Best Magical Sparkling Snowflakes Christmas Butter Biscuits Cookies Recipes

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MAGICAL SPARKLING SNOWFLAKES: CHRISTMAS BUTTER BISCUITS-COOKIES



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These sparkling Scandinavian style Christmas biscuits-cookies look just magical, especially when hung with ribbon from the Christmas tree! You need special snowflake biscuit-cookie cutters, and also edible glitter or sparkling silver or white dusting powder. If you cannot source edible sparkle or glitter dusting powder, they still look beautiful if decorated with white royal icing, piped into trellace work patterns to enhance the snowflake shape. These magical snowflakes make ideal Christmas gifts, and can be packaged in cellophane bags with a pretty and seasonal ribbon attached. They last for up to 14 days in an airtight tin & stored in a cool place, assuming they last that long!

Provided by French Tart

Categories     Dessert

Time 45m

Yield 30 Snowflake Cookies

Number Of Ingredients 8

2 cups plain flour
1 cup icing sugar
150 g butter, cubed, chilled
1 large egg, at room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
milk, to mix
4 ounces white royal icing, for piping designs or 4 ounces glace icing, for icing the biscuits
edible glitter or edible sparkling cake dusting powder

Steps:

  • Place flour and the icing sugar in a food processor. Process for 30 seconds. Add butter. Process until mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add egg and vanilla. Process until dough comes together. If it is too dry, add some milk.
  • Transfer to a lightly floured surface. Knead dough until smooth. Press or roll into a 9"/20cm circle. Wrap in greaseproof paper. Refrigerate for 1 hour or until firm.
  • Preheat oven to 180C/360F, and line 2 flat baking/cookie trays with baking paper. Roll out dough between 2 sheets of baking paper until about 1/4"/5mm thick.
  • Using snowflake biscuit/cookie cutters, cut shapes out of dough. Place on them gently on to the trays. Press leftover dough together and repeat cutting out shapes. Refrigerate for 30 minutes or until firm.
  • Bake the cookies/biscuits for 10 minutes, swapping trays after 5 minutes, or until light golden in colour. Allow to cool on trays completely.
  • Pipe trellis-work patterns following the snowflake shapes, or drizzle glace icing over the top; then dust them with edible glitter/edible silver dusting powder whilst the icing is still wet.
  • Dust with remaining sugar or edible glitter/silver dust just before serving.
  • Note for making holes for hanging on the Christmas Tree: Just before baking, take a plastic drinking straw and press into the top of the snowflake shapes - to make a small hole - then gently wiggle the straw around a bit to widen the hole, and bake as before. On taking them out of the oven, if the holes have closed up a bit, gently wiggle around again with a plastic drinking straw, to make the holes bigger! Excuse the language, I don't know how else to put it! LOL!

SNOWFLAKE COOKIES



Snowflake Cookies image

This is my mom's Christmas cookie recipe that the kids and I have made for years. Great fun to make and decorate.

Provided by Patty Morris

Categories     Desserts     Cookies     Cut-Out Cookie Recipes

Time 1h40m

Yield 12

Number Of Ingredients 6

1 cup shortening
1 ½ cups white sugar
3 eggs
3 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
1 ½ teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Steps:

  • Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (205 degrees C).
  • In a large bowl, cream the shortening with the sugar. Add the eggs and vanilla and mix well. Sift the flour and salt into the creamed mixture and stir in gradually. Chill dough for at least one hour.
  • Roll the chilled dough out to 1/8 inch thick and cut into desired shapes. Bake on an ungreased baking sheet for 6 to 8 minutes. Allow cookies to cool before decorating.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 408.9 calories, Carbohydrate 54.9 g, Cholesterol 46.5 mg, Fat 18.7 g, Fiber 1.1 g, Protein 5.6 g, SaturatedFat 4.7 g, Sodium 309 mg, Sugar 25.2 g

BUTTER SNOW FLAKES



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A wonderful Spritz cookie with cinnamon in it. These freeze very well.

Provided by Linda

Categories     Desserts     Cookies     Butter Cookie Recipes     Spritz Cookie Recipes

Time 1h

Yield 36

Number Of Ingredients 9

2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
¼ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 cup butter
1 (3 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1 cup white sugar
1 egg yolk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon orange zest

Steps:

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Sift together the flour, salt, and cinnamon; set aside.
  • In a medium bowl, cream together butter and cream cheese. Add sugar and egg yolk; beat until light and fluffy. Stir in the vanilla and orange zest. Gradually blend in the dry ingredients. Fill a cookie press or pastry bag with dough, and form cookies on an ungreased cookie sheet.
  • Bake for 12 to 15 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the cookies are golden brown on the peaks and on the bottoms. Remove from cookie sheets at once to cool on wire racks.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 105.3 calories, Carbohydrate 11.6 g, Cholesterol 21.8 mg, Fat 6.1 g, Fiber 0.2 g, Protein 1.1 g, SaturatedFat 3.8 g, Sodium 59.8 mg, Sugar 5.6 g

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