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Thermomix Recipes for TM5 and TM31 => Festive Seasons => CHRISTMAS => Topic started by: brazen20au on November 23, 2008, 05:29:29 am

Title: Christmas Cookies
Post by: brazen20au on November 23, 2008, 05:29:29 am
Ingredients:
* 250g butter, softened
* 65g icing sugar (or make your own as per the instructions in the tmx book)
* 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
* 1 egg, at room temperature
* 440g plain flour
* 75g cornflour

Method:
1. mix butter, sugar and vanilla until pale and creamy. speed 4, 40-60 seconds. you might need to scrape down the bowl half way through.

2. Add egg and mix on speed 5 for 5 seconds.

3. Add flour and cornflour to butter mixture. Mix for approximately 60 seconds on the knead setting .

4. Divide in half. Press each half into a disc. Wrap each disc in baking paper. Refrigerate for 20 minutes.

5. Preheat oven to 160°C. Line 2 baking trays with baking paper. Roll each disc out between 2 sheets of baking paper to 3mm-thick.

6. Using biscuit cutters, cut dough. Place onto trays. Roll leftover dough together and repeat. Bake for 15 minutes or until light golden. Stand on trays for 5 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.

7. decorate with icing (approximately 1 cup sifted icing sugar, 1 tspn butter or marg and a tiny bit of hot water, plus drops of food colouring until you get the colour you want) and desired decorations - we used sprinkles / 100's & 1000's, some little candy hearts and silver cachous

originally posted here (http://brazen20au.blogspot.com/2008/11/christmas-cookies-basic-tmx.html)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3020/3051119819_835c265165.jpg)
Title: Re: Christmas Cookies
Post by: Thermomixer on November 23, 2008, 07:41:22 am
Recipe sounds great and the picture.....  that ain't no point and shoot - great stuff - just makes you want to get out in that kitchen and rattle the Thermomix.
Title: Re: Christmas Cookies
Post by: brazen20au on November 24, 2008, 09:30:52 am
ahhh that photo was for our christmas card photo shoot ;)
(though still a point and shoot  :D)