Christmas Cookie Ornaments
These Christmas cookie ornaments are easy, one-bowl gingerbread cutout cookies with a small hole for ribbon, so you can hang them on the tree. Fully customizable, they are ornament cut out cookies you can leave plain or decorate any way you like.
- Prep Time: 35 minutes
- Cook Time: 25 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour (plus chilling time)
- Yield: 50 1x
- Category: Cookies
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
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For the cookie dough:
- 10.5 oz (300 g) unsalted butter, softened
- 1 1/3 cups (125 g) almond flour
- 1 cup (125 g) powdered (icing) sugar
- 2 pinches of salt
- 2 cups + 6 1/4 tbsp (300 g) all-purpose flour
- 1 egg, room temperature
- 2 teaspoons (4 g) ground allspice
* If needed, please refer to Baking Conversion Charts.
Instructions
- To make the cookie dough, place softened butter in the bowl of a stand mixer and beat until smooth. Add almond flour and mix. Then add icing (powdered) sugar, ground allspice, salt, all-purpose flour, and egg, and mix until the dough becomes homogeneous.
- Using a rolling pin, roll the dough between two sheets of parchment paper to about 1/5 inch (5 mm) thick. Refrigerate for 2 hours.
- Preheat oven to 300°F (150°C). Take the cookie dough out of the fridge and cut cookies using Christmas cookie cutters. Save, press together, and re-roll the dough scraps. Chill the rolled dough before cutting the cookies again.
- Make a small hole in each cookie using a plastic straw. Arrange cookies on a parchment-lined baking sheet and bake for 20 to 25 minutes, or until light brown.
- Place ornaments on a wire rack to cool down. Then thread red-and-white striped twine, ribbon, string, lace, or raffia through the hole in each cookie, tie the ends, and hang the cookies on the tree. You can tie each cookie individually or use finished ornaments to make an edible holiday garland.
Notes
- Beat the softened butter with an electric mixer, then combine the rest of the ingredients with a rubber spatula or your hands if you don't have a stand mixer.
- Decorate the baked cookies however you like.
- Store Christmas cookie ornaments in an airtight container for up to 2 to 4 weeks.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 90
- Sugar: 2.6 g
- Sodium: 44 mg
- Fat: 6.3 g
- Saturated Fat: 3.2 g
- Carbohydrates: 7.7 g
- Fiber: 0.5 g
- Protein: 1.3 g
- Cholesterol: 16 mg