1. Line two baking trays with baking paper and put aside.
2. Place the butter in a mixing bowl and utilizing electrical beaters, beat till clean. Add the icing sugar and vanilla, beating collectively for a minute till fluffy and mixed.
3. Add each flours and beat till mixed.
4. Flip the dough out onto a evenly floured floor, knead and kind a ball. Flatten right into a disc. Mud the bench and a rolling pin evenly and roll the disc into an excellent slab round 1cm in thickness. Don’t roll it too skinny or it’s prone to break while you transfer.
5. Lower your shapes with a evenly floured cookie cutter.
6. Place the dough shapes on the trays and put them within the fridge for at the very least an hour. In a preheated 190°C oven, bake the cookies for 12 to 14 minutes, or till the sides are evenly golden. Let cool utterly on a wire rack.
7. To make the glaze, combine collectively the icing sugar and milk to a pouring consistency. Switch the glaze to a shallow bowl and dip the floor of the biscuit into the combo. Carry gently and let the surplus drip off, earlier than shortly turning it over and leaving it to set. Let set for round half-hour.
8. Make the royal icing by mixing collectively the egg white and the icing sugar.
9. Add a squirt of black meals colouring and blend in. Add just a few drops of water if required to skinny it out to a piping consistency. Switch to a piping bag.
10. Pipe a string of black icing onto the biscuit. Press the Mini M&Ms into the string to make lights – and also you’re finished!
A scrumptious DIY selfmade Christmas present
As talked about above, these Christmas shortbread cookies are nice for hungry youngsters however additionally they work properly as a selfmade Christmas present. You have to to wrap the cookies individually in cellophane luggage or wrap. Cellophane luggage out of your native cake or cookie suppliers are superior. Simply seal them with sticky tape.
We love the thought of inserting your cookies in a sturdy wood field just like the $4 Kmart Bamboo Trays. Add a little bit of festive shredded paper to the underside after which place your cookies on prime. In case you’re including just a few completely different cookies or baked treats to the field, begin including the most important treats in first, then refill the areas.
What different baked treats are you able to add to your gifting field apart from Christmas shortbread cookies? Bake a batch of gingerbread biscuits, and even roll some no-bake bliss balls for a scrumptious present.
Then add a reasonably ribbon, a present card and a few sweet canes for that festive contact – and YOU’RE READY TO GIFT IT!
Try our full part of Christmas baking for extra nice biscuits to make, enhance and revel in:
