Christmas Biscuits

As I mentioned in a previous post, me and my eldest hit the kitchen to practice cooking our Christmas biscuits.  Here is the recipe:

250g Butter
140g Caster Sugar
1 x egg yolk
2 x tsp vanilla essence
300g Plain Flour
1/4 tsp salt

1. Put the butter, caster sugar, egg yolk and vanilla essence in a large bowl and mix well.

2. Sift in the flour and add the salt.  Mix again to form a dough.
You can add cocoa powder with the flour if you want to do chocolate cookies, we meant to but forgot!

3. Press the dough firmly to make into a ball, you're going to get messy!


4. Roll out the dough to about 5mm thick, make sure the surface is well floured as it's rather sticky!

5. Cut out the shapes using the cookie cutters, make sure you press down firmly.   We used a Christmas tree, a star, some different size snowflakes and an angel (although it could've been a ghost!)

6. Gather up the excess pastry, roll into a ball and use the shapes to cut out some more cookies.

7. Lift the shapes up with a palette knife and place on a non-stick baking tray.

8. Cook in an oven for about 14 mins, then place on a cooling rack.

9. We iced our shapes and decorated with Christmas baubles but they were delicious plain. They were great fun to make, and we will be making again for Christmas pressies!