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Biscuits and Christmas shortbread: homemade recipes to share
For a gift box or a workshop at home, choose first the dough and then the decor. Not all biscuits have the same texture: shortbread, filled biscuits, pastry or stars with almonds require different gestures.
Easy Christmas shortbread: Start with butter
Butterbredele are small butterbread shortbread associated with the Alsatian tradition. The dough is prepared in advance, then cut into stars, fir trees or round. The sheet details the rest, the thickness to aim and the batches: these three marks count more than a sophisticated cookie cutter.
For regular biscuits, keep an identical thickness on all the lower and joined on a plate the pieces of close size. If the dough heats up and sticks, a return to cold is more useful than a large handful of flour. The biscuits finish firming by cooling.
Vary the box: Linzer, cinnamon and chocolate
The Linzers consist of two biscuits joined together by jam. They ask to count the bottoms and tops, then let them cool before mounting. Cinnamon stars use a different paste and icing that is unique to the recipe. The spritz are shaped in the piping bag: the flexibility of the dough and the piping tip are essential.
Prepare only one family of dough at a time, with its ingredients already weighed. For a varied box, two well-organized recipes are simpler than four pastas conducted together. Store dry biscuits and stuffed biscuits separately to better preserve their textures.
Decorate and personalize without complicating the dough
The decor is on a completely cold biscuit. For personalized shortbread, start with lines, a contour or an initial: the lemon-sugar icing of the butterbredele sheet gives the quantities and the drying. Make room to place the cookies flat before putting them in a bag.
A gamer or manga universe can come from a silhouette and a few colors. The gamer shortbread cookies explain a pattern inspired by the keys of a controller; the manga shortbread cookies favor accessible edible decorations. Opens the corresponding sheet to follow the shape, assembly and ingredients of the decor.
Questions Before You Start
Why are my shortbread cookies deformed?
Too hot a paste or uneven thickness can distort the contours. Work one small portion at a time, keep the rest cold and respect the rest of the plug before cooking.
When to put the icing?
When the cookies are completely cold. Then let the decor dry flat according to the instructions of the recipe before stacking, packing or closing the box.
Are all Christmas cookies shortbread?
Nope. Butterbread, almond stars and spritz use different pasta and gestures. A complete recipe for each family avoids turning a simple decor into a hazardous substitution.