Christmas Cookies

What you’ll need:

• 100 g butter

• 100 g icing sugar ½ cup 

• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence

• 1 egg

• 300 g flour

• ½ teaspoon baking powder

• 1 cup m&ms

Step By Step Instructions:

Prep: Preheat your oven to 180 degrees celsius.

(160 degrees fan-forced)

Step one: In a medium/large mixing bowl cream the softened butter, icing sugar, vanilla essence and egg.

Step two: Add the flour and baking powder, combine to form a soft cookie dough

*You can either use a beater or wooden spoon for this stage.

Step three: Use a small scoop or 15ml tablespoon to make even portions of dough (you will end up with approximately 50-54 cookies.)

Roll into balls and put on a lined baking tray/cookie sheet.

Step four: Gently flatten the dough balls. You can do this by placing a small piece of baking paper on top and gently pressing down on each cookie with a flat bottomed measuring cup. You can also use your hand or a spoon/fork.

Step five: Decorate your cookies with candy! M&M’s or Smarties work great! 

Step six: Bake at 180 degrees celsius for 6 minutes. You don't want these cookies to be too golden. The cookies will be soft when you remove them from the oven but they will become more firm as they cool.

Ingredient Notes And Substitutes

• icing sugar: In some parts of the world this is called confectioners sugar. 

• egg: This cookie recipe works well egg-free with 3 Tablespoons of condensed milk as a substitute for the egg

• m&ms You can decorate these cookies with other sweets or chocolate chips.

Thanks so much to Miss Stacey at  Https://www.mykidslickthebowl.com for this delicious cookie recipe!