Christmas Cookies (Vegan)

It´s Xmas time again and luckily I had some time to make Xmas cookies. Maybe you want to try out these recipes as well. :)

The first recipe that I made this year were Vanillekiperl (vanilla crescent cookies).

For those you need:  

560 g flour

160 g sugar

400 g margarine

200 g crushed hazelnuts

4 packages of vanilla sugar

4 drops of vanilla flavor

Decoration:

100g icing sugar

dark couverture (optional)

You can also use half of the amount, because you will get a lot of cookies out of it :)

Frist of all mix all the dry ingridents - the four, the sugar, the crushed hazelnuts and the vanilla sugar-  together. Stir them well and then add the vanilla flavor and the margarine. Mix everything well with a mixer. Put the dough for 1hour into the refrigerator.

Cover the dough with a wrapping film or dish towel and put it for 1hour into the refrigerator.

Form little crescents out of the dough, put them on a baking tray and bake them for around 15minutes at 180°C. When they are gold-brown take them out of the oven and let them cool down for a couple of minutes. Afterwards take a sieve and spread icing sugar over them. When you want to you can also use dark dark couverture (melted) to decorate the cookies.

The second recipe I made this year were black and white cookies.

These are the thing that you will need:

For the white dough

125g magarine

60g icing sugar

160g flour

2 package vanilla sugar

For the black dough

125g magarine

80g icing sugar

125g flour

50 g hazelnuts, ground

25g cocoa powder

4 drops of rum flavoring

For the decoration:

100g icing sugar

water

Some drops of lemon juice

dark couverture

sugar beads

Put some flour on your table and roll out the dough with a rolling pin. Then use a cookie cutter to cut out the cookies.

Put the cookies on a baking tray and bake them for 10-15 minutes at 180°C.

Afterwards let them cool down for a couple of minutes.

Heat up the dark couverture in a water quench (Take a big pot and put water into it, then take a smaller one put the couverture inside and sit it in the big pot. Heat up the water.)

When the couverture is liquid spread it over the cookies and sprinekl some sugar beads over them.

Alternative you can mix some icing sugar with a bit of lemon jucie until it has a pasty consistency, spread it over the cookies and sprinkel it with sugar beads.

Let the decoration dry for some time. Afterwards: enjoy :)