A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand
This is perfect as an edible name place setting for guests at your Christmas lunch or a nifty gift for your guests
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Cookies are made with butter and love, and what better way than to spread the love this festive season with Christmas cookies doused in chocolate with a personal touch! This is perfect as an edible name place setting for guests at your Christmas lunch or a nifty gift for your guests to take home after your Christmas dinner.
For the cookies, you’ll need:
500 grams of butter
One cup of icing sugar
One cup of Maizena
Four cups of cake flour
250 grams of chocolate (melted) to dip cookies in
For the royal icing:
One cup of icing sugar
Four teaspoons of milk
Let’s bake them crazy!
Preheat oven to 180°C. In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter and icing sugar. For a sweeter cookie, you could add an additional half a cup of icing sugar, but also consider that you will be dipping the cookies into chocolate.
Once the butter and sugar mixture turn pale, add in the maizena and then flour gradually. Add enough flour to form a firm dough. Roll out the dough on a floured surface and use festive cookie cutters to cut out the cookies. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes until golden-brown. Transfer the baked goodies onto a cooling rack.
While the cookies are cooling down, melt the chocolate using a double boiler. Dip the top of the cookies flat down into the chocolate. Hack! Place a flat sheet pan under the cooling rack with the cookies and pour the chocolate over the cookies. The chocolate that drips into the sheet pan can then be used to coat the rest of the cookies.
As the chocolate sets, make the royal icing by mixing the icing sugar and milk. Divide the icing and use food colouring to make different coloured icing. Once the chocolate has set, pipe a message or your guest’s name onto the cookie using a small round piping tip. Let the icing harden and serve.
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