VIDEO: Butter cookies to cut out

"Mommy, are we baking cookies?" - You will probably hear that from your children every year during Advent. Certainly the butter biscuits taste particularly good in the run-up to Christmas, but for the little ones baking biscuits primarily means cutting out dough.

Dough for butter cookies - the Christmas classics

1. Some time before you start baking butter cookies, take the butter out of the refrigerator. It should be soft.
2. The dough To cut out, prepare by adding the butter, the two eggs and the sugar to the mixing bowl. Then use the mixer to mix the ingredients into a homogeneous mass.
3. Take the large bowl and sift in the flour through the hair sieve. Mix in the baking powder.
4. Then gradually add the flour to the butter mixture in the mixing bowl and knead in.


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5. Then shape a ball from the finished dough, wrap the dough ball in cling film and leave it for approx. 1 hour in the refrigerator rest.

The cutting out is the most beautiful thing

1. Dust some flour on the worktop on which you want to cut out the butter biscuits.
2. Take the ball of dough out of the foil, knead it briefly again by hand and then roll it out thinly.
3. Now your children can cut out butter cookies using the cookie cutters. If the rolled out dough is too full of holes to cut out, shape a ball again, flour the worktop and roll out the dough. You can repeat this until there is only a very small ball left and it will be nibbled.
4. Place the raw cookies on a baking sheet lined with baking paper and bake them at 200 degrees for 5 to 8 minutes. During the baking time you keep looking into the oven so that the butter biscuits don't burn.

Decorating the cookies is fun too

1. Let the cookies cool down. This is particularly quick if you place them on a wire rack.
2. Put some powdered sugar in a small bowl and stir in enough lemon juice until the sugar dissolves.
3. Then use the kitchen brush to brush the frosting onto the butter cookies.
4. As long as the casting is still damp, you can also decorate the cookies. Colorful sugar sprinkles that you sprinkle on the cookies are well suited for this.