Christmas Cookie

A small batch of thin and crispy butter cookies sprinkled with Christmas colour pearl sugars for an added festive look and feel 🎄🎅

My family was addicted to the home-baked butter cookies that I have to baked a second batch fast. The second batch of cookies were sprinkled with an additional white pearl sugar 😍🎄🤶

Simple ingredients, simple steps, but gave a very crispy and buttery taste cookies 😋

video of the Christmas Cookies 

Baked: about 29 ~30 cookies

Home-made colour pearl sugar

5g pearl sugar

Green and red food colour gel

Directions

1. Coat a small patch of green colour gel to the base of a small glass.

2. Add about 2g of white pearl sugar to the small glass.

3. Swirl the small glass to let the pearl sugar brush up the green colour gel, till evenly coated.

4. Repeat the steps for red colour pearl sugar.

5. Set aside.

Butter Cookies

[Ingredients]
50g unsalted butter, softened 
<1g low-sodium salt
25g icing sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla extract 

55g plain flour
10g potato starch

[Direction]

1. Cream softened sugar with salt and icing sugar till light and fluffy.

2. Mix vanilla extract to the butter mixture.

3. Sieve plain flour and potato starch, and fold into the butter mixture. Avoid over mixing the cookie dough.

4. Transfer the cookie dough to a piping bag fitted with a Wilton 1D nozzle.

5. Pipe dough to a baking pan lined with parchment paper.

 

6. Sprinkle the coloured pearl sugars over the cookie dough.

7. Bake in a preheated oven at 180C for about 8 to 10 minutes, or till the edge of the cookies start to brown. Turn off the oven, and continue to bake for about 1 ~2 minutes.

8. Cool down and enjoy 😋

For un-consumed cookies, keep in an air-tight cookie jar 😊