Christmas Cookies by Gilles Marchal

Christmas cookies by Gilles Marchal bring one more gingerbread cookie recipe to your collection. Effortless making and possible customizing make these cookies the best ones during the holiday season!

It is almost New Year’s Eve, but I cannot get enough of holiday baking. I am probably closing 2018 with the recipe of Christmas cookies – a creation of French chef GILLES MARCHAL. These cookies are full of ginger flavor. If you are a fan of cinnamon, do miss the recipe of GERMAN CINNAMON STAR COOKIES by Christophe Felder.

Christmas cookies are extremely easy to make. Just mix the ingredients, roll the dough out and refrigerate for 2 hours, then cut cookies and bake for 20 minutes. Finally, box them, and they are ready as a beautiful edible gift!

I was actually looking for a recipe of cookies to decorate our Christmas tree. Christmas Cookies have perfectly served the purpose! I did not decorate cookies before baking them; however, I used the Royal icing and Belgian Pearl sugar to sprinkle the cookie’s surface. I personally love the cookie’s decoration when I can see the baked cookie dough. Then I hung cookies on our Christmas tree. Just look at the result!

These Christmas cookies are easily customisable! Just be creative in making them!

Ingredients:

• 300 g butter, softened
• 1 vanilla bean
• 125 g almond flour *
• 125 g caster sugar
• 2 pinches of salt
• 300 g flour
• 1 egg
• 6 g gingerbread powder “All spices”

Instructions:

Place the butter and scraped vanilla seeds in the bowl of a stand mixer * and mix till smooth. Add the almond powder…

icing sugar…

gingerbread powder “All spices”, salt, egg…

and flour and mix again till the dough becomes homogeneous.

Roll the dough out between two sheets of the parchment paper * to the thickness of about 5 – 6 mm. Refrigerate for 2 hours.

Heat the oven to 300 degrees F/150 C. Take the cookie dough out of the fridge and cut cookies, using christmas cookie cutters.

You can bake plain cookies or sprinkle them with the caster sugar, brown sugar, scented sugar, pieces of dried fruit, etc. Bake for about 20 minutes till the light brown color.

Decorate Christmas cookies as you wish.

Happy holidays to you!

Tips:

• Use the same recipe without adding the gingerbread powder to make plain cookies.
• Store Christmas cookies in an airtight container for 2-4 weeks.

Watch the video masterclass of how to make Christmas cookies by Gilles Marchal HERE.

The recipes is taken from https://www.lemonde.fr/ and translated from French. It is re-written by me, but the authorship belongs to Gilles Marchal. All posted pictures are mine.

Have you tried this recipe or would you like to make it? Just speak to me, leaving a comment below. I wanna hear from you!

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