Best Christmas Cookies Recipe Ever - Perfect Results
During the Christmas baking season, there is always a handy cookie recipe. These time-tested recipes not only retain traditional flavors but also add modern creativity, adding a touch of sweetness and warmth to the festival.
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Ingredients Needed
Butter: As the main ingredient, it lays the foundation flavor for the cookies. After softening, it can fully blend with other ingredients, giving the cookies a rich and mellow milky flavor and a soft texture.
Low-gluten flour: It is a key material that constitutes the main structure of the cookies. After being sifted in and stirred with other materials, it forms a batter to ensure that the cookies have appropriate hardness and crispness and have a good shaping effect.
Room temperature egg white: Added in two times, it can make the texture of the butter mixture become more fluffy and delicate, increase the toughness and taste levels of the cookies, and at the same time make the materials blend better together.
Cocoa powder: Used to make cocoa-colored batter, it brings a rich cocoa flavor and unique color to some cookies, adding a different visual and taste experience and making the cookie shapes more distinctive.
Matcha powder: Added to the remaining batter and stirred evenly, it can give the cookies a fresh matcha flavor and an elegant green color, enriching the taste and appearance style of the cookies and creating a different festival atmosphere.
Sugar beads: As a decorative material, dipped in white chocolate and decorated on the cookies, it plays a role in beautifying the appearance of the cookies, making the cookies look more delicate and lovely and full of festival atmosphere.
White chocolate: On the one hand, it can be used to dip and stick sugar beads. On the other hand, it can also add a mellow chocolate flavor to the decorated cookies and enhance the overall deliciousness of the cookies.
Icing sugar: Adds sweetness to the cookies and meets the taste demand for sweetness. During the process of stirring and whipping with butter, it helps improve the texture and color of the cookies and makes their appearance more attractive.
Salt: Although the amount used is not much, it can play a role in adjusting the taste, highlighting the taste of other ingredients, making the taste of the cookies more balanced and coordinated, and avoiding being too sweet and greasy.
How long does butter take to soften
When taking chilled butter out of the refrigerator, it takes 1 to 2 hours to naturally soften at room temperature of 20 degrees Celsius to reach the optimal state where there is a shallow mark when pressed lightly with a finger and it is not completely sunken; if time is tight, cutting it into small pieces can complete softening in 15 to 20 minutes.
When using the fermentation mode of the oven, the temperature should be set at 30 to 35 degrees Celsius and the time is 3 to 5 minutes. When operating, cut the butter into small pieces and put it in. And it needs to be checked frequently. Check at least once every minute to prevent it from melting into an oily state. Because once the state of the butter changes, the taste and appearance of the cookies will be greatly reduced.
Why add egg white
Color reason: This Christmas tree cookie is green. Adding egg white liquid instead of whole egg liquid helps maintain the beauty of the cookie color and makes the green more pure and bright, enhancing the overall visual effect and quality of the cookies.
Texture improvement: Egg white contains protein. During baking, it denatures to form a network structure, giving the cookies toughness and elasticity and avoiding cracking or deformation during baking. For example, cookies with extruded flower shapes can better maintain their shapes.
Enhance stickiness: It can make the materials stick closely together, make the butter and flour mix more evenly, and make the dough combine more perfectly. It is beneficial for the batter to maintain a specific shape and is crucial for the shaping of Christmas tree-shaped cookies.
Success tips
Butter treatment: Soften the butter until it is easily indented when pressed by finger but not completely sunken. Cutting it into small pieces can accelerate softening. When softening in the oven, control the temperature at 30 - 35 degrees Celsius for 3 - 5 minutes and observe frequently to avoid it becoming oily. Stir thoroughly until it turns white and foamy, which is beneficial for the cookies to be crispy.
Dough control: Pay attention to the temperature of the dough. If it is soft, refrigerate it for 5 - 10 minutes. The criterion is that it can be smoothly extruded without breaking. When extruding, hold the hand steadily and apply force at a constant speed to ensure neat patterns.
Baking points: Select the middle layer of the oven for baking, set the temperature accurately. Cover with tin foil in the last 5 minutes to ensure uniform color.
Novice strategy: Novices should make a small amount first to get familiar with the characteristics of the dough and baking time. Increase the production quantity after mastering the skills.
INGREDIENTS
MAIN INGREDIENTS
- 200g butter
- 240g low-gluten flour
ACCESSORIES
- 72g room temperature egg white
- 8g cocoa powder
- 10g matcha powder
- 10g Sugar beads
- 20g white chocolate
SEASONINGS
- 80g icing sugar
- 2g salt
DIRECTIONS
STEP 1
Soften 200g butter by putting it in the fermentation mode of the oven. Soften it until it can be easily pressed down when pressed, presenting a texture similar to toothpaste.
STEP 2
Add 80g icing sugar and 2g salt to the softened butter. Use tools such as an egg beater to stir evenly. Then continue to beat until the color of the butter turns slightly white.
STEP 3
Pour in half of the room temperature egg white first. Use tools such as an egg beater to mix it evenly with the butter mixture. Then pour in the remaining 36g egg white and stir evenly again.
STEP 4
Sift 240g low-gluten flour into the above mixture. Then use a spatula to stir the flour and the mixture evenly by folding to form a batter.
STEP 5
Take out 80g batter, add 8g cocoa powder, and stir evenly to make cocoa-colored batter.
STEP 6
Add 10g matcha powder to the remaining batter and stir evenly to make matcha-colored batter.
STEP 7
Put the colored batter into piping bags respectively and extrude the shape of a Christmas tree. After all are extruded, put the baking tray in the refrigerator for 30 minutes to set.
STEP 8
Use an oven with flat oven mode and independent temperature control for upper and lower tubes so that the cookies can be heated evenly and have uniform baking color. Set the oven temperature at 160 degrees Celsius. Put the refrigerated cookies in for baking for 20 minutes.
STEP 9
Cover with tin foil in the last 5 minutes when baking to prevent the surface from being burnt.
STEP 10
After the cookies are baked and taken out to cool, dip sugar beads in white chocolate and then decorate on the cookies. In this way, delicious Christmas cookies are made.
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Can it be baked in an air fryer
Christmas cookies can be baked in an air fryer.
First, set the temperature at about 150 degrees Celsius, which is slightly lower than the oven temperature, and shorten the time to 12 - 15 minutes. When baking for the first time, observe more. After 8 minutes, check every 2 minutes to avoid overbaking. The air fryer heats up quickly and is easy to burn.
Don't put too many at a time. Leave gaps between the cookies to allow hot air to circulate. Lay parchment paper on the bottom to prevent sticking. Press the four corners of the parchment paper to prevent it from being blown up by the wind. Pay special attention to observing the color in the last few minutes. The cookies can be taken out when the edges are slightly yellow.
However, the capacity of the air fryer is limited. If you want to bake a lot of cookies, it is more convenient to use an oven. Moreover, the temperature control of the air fryer is not as accurate as that of the oven. It is recommended to make a small amount for the first time to try the feel.
How to store
After the made cookies are completely cooled, divide them into small packages (5 - 6 pieces per package) and pack them in plastic bags or sealed boxes. Take out the amount to be eaten on the same day at one time. In this way, it is fresh and can keep the crispness of other cookies.
Put ordinary cookies without decoration in a sealed jar and store it in a cool and dry cabinet. It is best to eat them within 7 - 10 days. Those with cream and chocolate decorations should be eaten in advance. It is better to eat them within 3 - 4 days.
If the weather is particularly humid, you can put a small bag of desiccant in the sealed jar. It is not recommended to put it in the refrigerator, as it will affect the taste instead. If you are alone, it is recommended to make 20 - 30 pieces at a time to ensure freshness and deliciousness.
Recipe analyzer
- Recipes: Best Christmas Cookies Recipe Ever - Perfect Results
- Main Ingredients:7
- Servings per recipe:1
- Servings size:560 g
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Energy (calories)：2497 kcal
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Protein：121.93 g
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Fat：184.24 g
Why gray?
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Carbohydrates：113.08 g
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Protein: 17%431 kcal
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Fat: 65%1611 kcal
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Carbohydrates: 18%454 kcal
The ratio shows whether the proportion of both fatty acids in your diet is optimal. Red color means too much of Omega 6 or too little of Omega 3. The data are rounded off and approximate.
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