Christmas Cookie Ornaments
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Christmas Cookie Ornaments are homemade sugar cookie Christmas ornaments. The process is exactly the same as if you make sandwich cookies recipe to serve on a platter. What is different is that you make a hole on the top of your Christmas ornaments to hang them and enjoy festive days!
Besides candy canes, sugar cookies are great Christmas cookie ornaments. Firm dough, gingerbread type or chestnut flour ones has proper consistency. Easy to cut and decorate for Christmas tree.
How do you make Christmas cookies into an ornament?
If baking your own cookies for holidays, just choose the cookie ornaments and bake as you would normally do. Once cooled, you make your favourite frosting or colour and decorate them.
If your cookie cutter does not alaready have a little hole on the top you simply make one using straw. Just have in mind to do it before baking. Then, after your cookies are decorated with stars or any other ornaments, you thread the ribbon through the hole and hang to your Christmas tree.
Once you decide to include your family into the process, make sure to avoid sand cookies since they fall apart easily.
Can you make the cookies in advance?
Of course. If you make your batch one or two months ahead , cool it completely and store in the freezer. When it’s time to decorate your Christmas tree, just take the cookies out, thaw, paint ornaments, assemble, dry them completely, add a ribbon and hang on the three. The whole family can have fun together during the process of making these ornaments recipe.
Here you can see how to assemble your cookies with both cream and jam and dust them using any pattern you like.
As you can see, we made sandwich cookies. I used some redcurrant jam and marshmallow cream. I didn’t say a word during the process but am really curious how many will stick together, hanging all night, until morning! 😊
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Christmas Cookie Ornaments
Christmas Cookie Ornaments are homemade sugar cookie Christmas ornaments. The process is exactly the same as if you make sandwich cookies recipe to serve on a platter. What is different is that you make a hole on the top of your Christmas ornaments to hang them and enjoy festive days!
Ingredients
- 2 ½ cup all-purpose flour
- 3 Tbsp bitter cocoa powder
- 5 Tbsp powdered sugar
- 1 yolk
- 16 Tbsp butter, room temperature
- 1 Tbsp milk, optional
- Marshmallow cream and red currant jam to assemble cookies
- Powdered sugar to dust the cookies, optional
Instructions
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On flat,clean working surface, combine flour, sugar, cocoa powder, yolk, and butter. If you will knead the leftovers again, you need 1 tablespoon of milk to keep the dough soft for another rectangular layer.
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Prepare two baking sheets and cover them with parchment paper. Leave aside.
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Preheat the oven to 180 C / 356 F.
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Roll out one half of the dough to get 3 mm thick rectangular. Cut the shapes and transfer them on the baking sheet. Be extra careful with the upper part and separate the dough from the cutter using toothpick.
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Since there is no baking powder in the dough, you may place your cutouts close one to another before baking.
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Bake one tray for 12 minutes, take it out and insert another.
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Once the cookies are cold, assemble them combining marshmallow cream and raspberry jam to get sweet but tangy flavours of filling.
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Once you assemble all the cookies, dust them with powdered sugar according to your taste.
For more Christmas desserts, look at:
Ricotta Rosemary Cake with Mascarpone icing
Speculoos aka Biscoff Cream Cheese Buns
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