Sugar Christmas Cookies - Crisp and Delicate

Step-by-step method

At a glance

You're making delicate, melt-in-your-mouth Christmas cookies with a crispy exterior and buttery vanilla flavor. The key to perfect cookies is chilling the dough twice—once for an hour and again for 15 minutes before baking—which keeps them from spreading and maintains their crisp outline. The final touch is decorating with royal icing or a simple sugar dusting to make them sparkle like fresh snow.

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Whip the butter

Beat the softened butter together with the sugar using a hand mixer until fluffy, about five minutes. Then add the egg and keep beating until you get a beautifully light, airy butter foam. Right at the end, stir in the vanilla extract.

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250 gram
Unsalted Butter

200 gram
Granulated Sugar

2 piece
Chicken Eggs

5 gram
Vanilla Extract
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Mix the dry ingredients

In another bowl, mix together the flour, salt and baking soda. Combine this mixture with the butter cream.

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220 gram
All-purpose wheat flour

3 gram
Salt

3 gram
Baking soda
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Make the fluffy dough

The resulting dough will be light and fluffy. It may feel slightly sticky on your hands - if so, add a little flour, but not too much! Shape it into a ball, place it in a bowl and chill in the fridge for about an hour.

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Roll out and cut the shapes

On a lightly floured work surface, roll the dough into a sheet about 1 cm thick. Cut out stars or flower shapes, ready for decorating with a snowflake pattern if you like.
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Chill again

Arrange the cut-out shapes on a baking tray lined with parchment paper and pop them back into the fridge for 15 minutes. Don't skip this step! It stops the cut shapes from spreading and losing their crisp outline.
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Bake

Bake in an oven preheated to 180°C for about 8 to 10 minutes. If you already know you won't be decorating them with egg-white icing, you can sprinkle the shapes with granulated sugar at this point.

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10 gram
Granulated Sugar
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Icing

Whisk together egg whites, sugar and lemon juice. If the icing seems too thick, just add a little more lemon juice or a splash of water to thin it out. Use this icing to decorate the cooled, baked cookies.

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60 gram
Egg White

1 piece
Lemon

330 gram
Powdered Sugar
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Tip: colours

For colourful cookies, divide the icing into several portions and tint each lightly with food colouring. Soft pastel shades suit these cookies best, so go easy - just a tiny touch of colour is enough.

Sugar Christmas Cookies - Crisp and Delicate

Name: Delicate Sugar Christmas Cookies
Prep time: 32 min
Cook time: 9 min
Total time: 131 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 250 gram Unsalted Butter; 220 gram All-purpose wheat flour; 200 gram Granulated Sugar; 1 piece Lemon; 5 gram Vanilla Extract; 3 gram Salt; 60 gram Egg White; 2 piece Chicken Eggs; 3 gram Baking soda; 10 gram Granulated Sugar; 330 gram Powdered Sugar

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Prep 32 min Cook 9 min

Plus 1 h 15 min of resting (not counted in active time)

11 Ingredients

8 Steps

Medium Difficulty

What's in it?

314 kcal

Calories

71 g

Carbohydrates

22 g

Fats

5 g

Proteins

The nutritional information is an estimate and may vary based on the specific ingredients used.

About this recipe

I'd been longing for a recipe for delicate, crisp cookies that would melt on your tongue and look like sparkling freshly fallen snow. Well, here it is! As a bonus, they're fragrant with vanilla and fresh butter. They give a lovely crunch and then melt away on your tongue. Simply wonderful. A dusting of royal icing gives them a delicate beauty, but they're just as delicious with a simple sprinkling of sugar on top.

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Step-by-step method

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Whip the butter

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Mix the dry ingredients

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Make the fluffy dough

Roll out and cut the shapes

Chill again

Bake

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Icing

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Tip: colours

Sugar Christmas Cookies - Crisp and Delicate

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