Cut-out cookies
The first snow fell today and suddenly it feels like winter, even though October is only just approaching. Time to think about New Year and Christmas baking! I made cookies with vegetable oil, worried that the dough might be too crumbly to shape and roll. It worked well: the cookies are crisp, fragrant and lightly spiced, especially delicious with icing.
The set of spices can be changed. Add, for example, ginger and orange zest.
I made about 50 small cookies.
Combine eggs, salt, sugar and vegetable oil in one bowl.
Beat into a homogeneous fluffy mass.
Sift flour, starch and baking powder into a separate bowl. Add spices and stir.
Combine both mixtures. And knead the dough. The dough turns out soft, similar to plasticine, does not crumble, and rolls out well.
Roll out the layer to about half a centimeter thick and cut out shapes with a cookie cutter.
Transfer the cut out figures to a sheet covered with parchment. Gather the remaining dough into a ball, roll it into a layer and cut out the figures again. Repeat until all the dough is gone.
Cookies are baked in a preheated oven for 9-10 minutes. Temperature 180°C.
I left some of the cookies just like that. And for the other part I made a icing from powdered sugar.
60 gr. Mix powdered sugar with 2 teaspoons of warm boiled water. Moreover, we add water not all at once, but in parts, literally a few drops at a time. We added it, mixed it, and tried to lift it on a spoon. If it’s thick, add more water and mix again. The glaze should stick to the spoon. You can add a drop of food coloring to the finished glaze.
Since I’ve never been good at drawing, I simply covered the cooled cookies with glaze.