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Christmas Tree Cookies
Easy Christmas tree cookies recipe, homemade with simple ingredients. These cut out gingerbread cookies and soft but firm and lightly spiced.
👥 36 Servings⏱️ Prep & Cook: 1h 20m⏳ Prep: 10 min🔥 Cook: 10 min👤 Abeer Rizvi📖 cakewhiz
🥘 Ingredients
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🍳 Cookware
- bowl
- mixing bowl
- oven
📝 Preparation Steps
1
In a large mixing bowl, cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
Butter (Unsalted, Room temperature)1 cup
2
Add the egg, molasses, and vinegar and mix until roughly combined.
Egg (Large)1Molasses1 cupVinegar2 tbsp
3
Add flour, baking soda, ground ginger, cinnamon powder, cloves powder, nutmeg powder and mix until combined. Use your hands, if necessary to bring the mixture together into a ball of dough.
Baking soda1.5 tspGround ginger (Fresh)2 tspCloves powder1 tsp
4
Chill dough in the fridge for ⏱️ 1 hour.
5
Divide the dough into 2 portions and work with one portion at a time. It's just easier this way. I keep the unused portion in the fridge until I am ready to use it.
6
Roll dough between 2 sheets of parchment paper. Mine were about 1/2 inch thick. If you make them 1/4 inch thick, they are crispier.
7
Use a tree shaped cookie cutter to make cut outs.
8
Remove excess dough around the shapes.
9
Transfer sheet of parchment paper with the cut outs to a baking tray.
10
Bake at 350 degrees F for ⏱️ 10-12 minutes or until edges are firm and center is slightly soft but not jiggly.
11
Remove from oven and let them cool completely in the tray.
12
Then, gently remove cookies from parchment paper.
13
Filling a piping bag with melted chocolate and cut a small slit at the pointy end.
Melted chocolate (For decorating )1 cup
14
Drizzle chocolate on top of each cookie.
Melted chocolate (For decorating )1 cup
15
Stick m&m candies before the chocolate sets. Enjoy!
Melted chocolate (For decorating )1 cup
Nutrition Facts
calories
184 kcal
fat Content
7 g
serving Size
1 serving
fiber Content
1 g
sugar Content
15 g
sodium Content
104 mg
protein Content
2 g
cholesterol Content
18 mg
carbohydrate Content
29 g
saturated Fat Content
4 g
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