Vanilla Christmas cookies
These vanilla Christmas cookies not only look and smell gorgeous on the tree but, nicely boxed and wrapped, can be a lovely gift for friends and family. Also it’s a perfect baking activity for kids as it’s really easy to make them – then let them be creative with the decoration!
Ingredients
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180°C.
- Mix the egg with the syrup, sugar and butter. Add the vanilla.
- In another bowl sift the flour and baking soda together.
- Combine the two mixture into a firm dough.
- Shape the dough into a ball and rest in the fridge for 20 minutes, then roll it out to 5mm thickness on a lightly floured surface.
- Using Christmassy cookie cutters stamp out shapes. If you want to hang them, cut out a small hole in the top of each cookie (using a skewer or straw).
- Reroll the leftover dough and cut out more shapes.
- Put the cookies on a non-stick or lined baking tray and bake for 10-12 minutes until lightly golden.
- Transfer them to a wire rack to cool. Dust with icing sugar, or decorate with icing, food coloring, chocolate/fondant pen, edible glitter & balls and so on.
- Thread with a piece of ribbon or string when dry.