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75g butter (room temperature)
75g caster sugar
½ free range egg (room temp.)
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
125g plain flour
½ teaspoon baking powder
Royal Icing
225g baker's icing sugar
45g pasteurized egg white
1 teaspoon lemon juice
edible food colouring
Decoration: edible glitter, sprinkles, fondant icing
After reading Hanukkah Cookies with Sprinkles, we are also excited to bake Hanukkah cookies ourselves. To make the cookies extra beautiful, we not only add sprinkles, but also edible silver glitter, fondant icing, edible paint and royal icing. In short, we pull out all the stops and then everyone is happy!
How to make Hanukkah Cookies with sprinkles, glitter and so on
Put butter and sugar in the mixer.
Mix until you have a pale, creamy mixture.
Beat the egg and vanilla into the mixture.
Stir flour and baking powder together.
Sift 1/3 of the flour mix into the butter mix.
Fold it in, continue with the rest in 2 parts.
Knead the dough briefly by hand.
Wrap the dough in cling film.
Allow the dough to rest for 30 minutes, in the refrigerator
Place a sheet of baking paper on a baking tray and grab the dough out of the fridge
Knead the dough briefly by hand.
Cut stars out of the dough.
Cut out acorns, cut off the sides.
Cut circles from the dough.
Preheat the oven to 170°C
Place the cookies on the baking tray.
Place the tray 10 minutes in the fridge.
Bake the cookies for 10 - 12 minutes.
Allow to cool on the baking tray.
While the cookies cool completely you make the royal icing and / or cut out the fondant icing
Thinly sprinkle on icing sugar.
Roll out the fondant thinly and cut out stars.
Stick the stars on top of the cookies.
Cut out acorns out of icing, cut off the sides.
It's how you make dreidels from acorns :))
Cut out white fondant, to go on the cookies.
Draw menorah's on the circles.
And roll and stick on candles and flames.
Sprinkles are being scattered ...
... dreidels are painted with edible paint.
Everyone does his / her own thing!
Also icing is being piped on.
Allow the icing David's Stars to dry completely.
Decorate your cookies just like us, or as you like it.
This afternoon we read the Hanukkah-Cookies-Book again to the mini-monsters, with tea and our sprinkle and glitter cookies on the side, so cozy!
Happy Hanukkah!