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140g icing sugar, sieved
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 egg yolk
250g butter, cut into small cubes
375g plain flour, sieved
To decorate
200g icing sugar, sieved
edible food colouring gel, optional
edible gold and silver balls
Today we are baking Christmas cookies to play with. With all the writing and spelling lessons at school before the Christmas holidays, it is time for a game with letters. Nobody asks why practising? It is vacation! Because a reward immediately follows the 'work', because when we are done playing we have tea with some of the biscuits.
Then the best speller gets to choose the 1st biscuit and we all eat some of the rest. Of course we do not eat them all, we put the remaining biscuits in the cookie jar.. Keep in mind that you bake 3-4 trays of cookies from this recipe, otherwise you cannot spell fun and difficult words :))
Are this too much biscuits for you? Then halve the recipe or use smaller cookie cutters ;)) How to make Christmas Letter Biscuits
Then add the soft butter cubes too.
Finally, add the sifted flour.
Stir it with a wooden spoon
Knead the dough by hand until smooth.
Divide the dough into two equal parts by weighing it
Shape the dough into 2 flat discs and wrap them..
Allow the dough to cool for 2 hours in the refrigerator.
Knead the dough by hand in parts.
Roll out the dough to about 1 cm thickness.
Cut out letters.
Place on waxed paper on a baking tray.
Place the tray for 30 minues in the fridge.
Preheat the oven to 190°C/170°C Fan
Bake the biscuits for +/- 15 minutes, until they colour lightly.
Let them cool on the tray for 5-10 minutes.
Move them to a wire rack and bake the next batch.
While your biscuits cool you cut out fondant icing.
Stick the letters on the biscuits with a drop of water.
You need some help because there are lots of biscuits!
Cut out little Christmas shapes and stick them on the letters.
Now you can spell and play with the Christmas biscuits
Make short, little words with your letters ... or put little words together into one long word!
When you're done playing, you can eat some biscuits, put the rest in a cookie tin and tomorrow you can come up with some new words
Have fun with the (spelling) game and wishing you a happy Christmas month already!