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Cutting out cookies is highly loved by children in the Christmas bakery! The sweet reindeer cookies with a crispy nose are just perfect for baking with kids!
The 1st Advent is coming! Time to start Christmas baking with my kids!
Do your kids love cookie cutters as much as mine? For my minis, Christmas baking means “cutting out cookies with the coolest Christmas cutters and decorating them deliciously”! That's how it should be!
We start our Christmas baking with the super sweet reindeer cookies with a delicious crunchy nose!
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Recipe for our reindeer cookies with crispy nose
I'm pretty sure that cutting out cookies in the Christmas bakery is highly welcomed by your minis as well! To ensure that Christmas baking is as relaxed and harmonious as possible, you can find my tips for baking cookies with kids here.
Ingredients
Ingredients for approx. 50-55 reindeer cookies
Shortcrust pastry
- 600 g flour
- 200 g sugar
- 1 pinch of salt
- 250 g soft butter
- 1 packet of vanilla sugar (15g)
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 3 eggs
- some flour for rolling out the cookie dough
Decoration
- 100 g white chocolate
- 50-55 Giotto chocolates (red chocolate beans look fun too!)
- golden, edible glitter spray (we use “Happy Glitter”* from GoodBake)*
Baking accessories
Kitchen scales, mixing bowl, cling film, rolling pin, Reindeer cookie cutter*, spreading knife, baking paper, baking tray, cooling rack, disposable piping bags (we use GoodBake piping bags)*, cooking pot & melting bowl, scissors
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Preparation
- Put all the ingredients for the dough in a mixing bowl and knead with your hands (or a food processor) into a firm dough.
- Then wrap the cookie dough in cling film and chill in the fridge for at least 30 minutes, ideally 60 minutes.
- Now sprinkle the work surface and rolling pin with a bit of flour and roll out about a third of the dough on the work surface to a thickness of about 0.5 cm. Meanwhile, the remaining dough stays in the fridge so that it doesn't get too warm.
- Before cutting out the reindeer cookies, preheat the oven to 175°C.
- Now you and your minis cut as many reindeer out of the dough as possible.
- Using a spreader knife, place the cut-out reindeer cookies on a baking tray lined with baking paper and place them in the preheated oven for approx. 8-9 minutes. The cookies are still a little soft at this point, but will harden as they cool.
- Next, the white chocolate is slowly melted in a water bath and poured liquid into a disposable piping bag.
- Use scissors to cut approx. 0.2 cm off the tip of the piping bag and paint antlers and eyes on the reindeer cookies (you could also dip the antlers in liquid chocolate). Then put a small blob of chocolate on the nose of the reindeer cookie and place a ball of Giotto or a red chocolate lens on the chocolate blob as a nose.
Preparation in pictures
What about you, do you already feel like starting the Christmas baking with your kids? My kids & I wish you and your kids a lot of fun in the Christmas bakery and a really nice pre-Christmas season!
Yours, Lia
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I put together a small list of (Christmas) gifts for baking fans! You're sure to find a nice little something to give away! Have fun strolling through my ideas.
Have you baked the recipe?
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