Spiced butter cookies

This time of year is by far- my favorite. I love all the decorating, the present shopping, watching Christmas movies…This is my season. Especially because it is generally accepted to spend a lot of time baking.

Me and the kids have been looking forward to this official start of the christmas cookie baking season, since they get to use their cookie cutters. I decided to tweak an older recipe and added some new elements, so I ended up with some melt-in- your-mouth spiced butter cookies. I also wanted to have a really good dough to work with, since I wanted to try my new Folkroll embossed rolling pins. Using this was the most fun and it transforms your cookies to another level. If you don’t know what you should get as a present for a hobby baker. You should take a look at their rolling pins.

Recipe for a tin full of spiced butter cookies

• 200 grams of soft butter (room temperature)
• 100 grams of brown sugar
• 50 grams of white sugar
• 1 egg
• 1.5 tsp of vanilla extract
• 400 grams of flour
• ½ tsp of baking powder
• 1 tsp of cinnamon
• ¼ tsp of nutmeg
• ¼ tsp of ginger
• ¼ tsp of cloves
• Pinch of cardamom
• Pinch of salt

Instructions

1. Mix the butter and the sugars until creamy
2. Mix in the egg and the vanilla and beat until fully incorporated
3. Add the flour, the baking powder and the spices
4. Mix until a dough has formed
5. Shape this into a disc and transfer this to an airtight container or wrap it up in cling film and let the dough cool down in the fridge for at least 1 hour. 2-3 hours are the perfect resting time. You could easily let this rest in the fridge overnight.
6. Slightly flour a surface and roll out the dough with a regular rolling pin.
7. Use cookie cutters to cut out shapes or use an embossed rolling pin and transfer a beautiful pattern onto the dough first, before using the cookie cutters
8. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees (circulating air)
9. Bake the cookies for 8-10 minutes – depending on their size. Smaller cookies just need 8 minutes. Once the edges start to brown, get the cookies out of the oven.
10. Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet completely.
11. Add a little bite of biscoff cookie butter between two cookies and press together

Store these in an airtight container and enjoy these with your loved ones. These will vanish fast than you can count to three.

Let me know, how you liked these.

Love and happiness,

Sue