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CINNAMON COOKIE - COOKIES CHRISTMAS TREE
Ingredients
Brown Sugar Syrup
- 30 g 2 tbsp water
- 30 g (2 tbsp) dark brown sugar
Cookie Dough
- 275 g (2+1/4) all purpose flour
- 2 tsp cinnamon powder
- 100 g (1/2 cup) dark brown Muscovado sugar or normal brown sugar
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 75 g (1/3 cup) unsalted butter chilled and cubed
- 1 egg
- About 50 g (3 tbsp) brown sugar syrup or maple syrup
Royal Icing
- 25 g (about 1/2) egg whites
- 15 drops lemon juice (optional)
- 125 g (1 cup) powdered sugar
Instructions
Brown Sugar Syrup
- Place water and dark brown sugar in a saucepan and cook for about 4-5 minutes over medium heat until sugar dissolves and become a syrup. Let it cool.
Cookie Dough
- Place flour, cinnamon, brown sugar, baking powder and butter in a food processor and mix for about 1 minute or until reach a evenly sandy mixture (don’t overmix, you can use the pulse function).
- Add the egg, the brown sugar syrup and process until a dough is formed (not too wet!).
- On a well floured surface roll the dough 1/5 inch-0,5cm thick.
- Cut the dough with different sizes star cookie cutters (if you haven’t cookie cutters, you can realize some star shapes using templates in stiff paper; you’ll need at least 6-7 stars-shaped sizes cookie cutters and you have to realize at least 3-4 cookies for every star size).
- Transfer the cookies to a baking sheet lined with baking paper; re-roll scraps and repeat.
- Bake in preheated fan oven at 180°C-350°F for 8-10 minutes.
- Cool it down completely on a wire rack.
Royal Icing
- In a medium size bowl place the egg white, few drops of lemon juice and whisk for few seconds.
- Gradually add the powdered sugar and mix it until reach a stiff consistency medium-peak mixture.
- Transfer the royal Icing into a piping bag (I used a No. 1,5 round piping tip) and decorate the cookies.
- Let it dry completely, at least 3-4 hours, before store it.
Video
Notes
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Tips:
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I made the cookie dough in a food processor, but you can handmade thw dough easily: evenly dissolve the small cubed chilled butter into the flour mix, then incorporate the egg mixed with the brown sugar syrup. If the dough turns out too sandy, add a bit of extra brown syrup; if too wet, a bit of extra flour.
Do not roll your cookie dough too thin if you want to get more soft cookies. Thin cookies become more crispy while baking!
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You can make royal icing using a hand mixer to quickly get a thick meringue consistency perfect to decorate your cookies!
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I’ve used a 1,5 piping tip that is very very thin; you can use a larger tip to decorate them faster.