⋆˚ Cookie recipes ˚⋆

It seems it is kind of christmas season and like every year i take some time to bake some cookies for my friends and family. I find they make much better gifts than scrambling to buy something online that the person might not enjoy. It helps being good at baking i guess... :humble:

In my opinion the most important quality of a cookie recipe is that they are easy to make, deosnt take forever to prep, can be frozen for later use and uses common household ingredients so i can spontaneously decide to make some sugary snacks when i forget to buy my late-night chocolate. These are my favourite cookie recipes. Both take about 1-2 hours tops and make delicious cookies.

Cinnamon Choco Chip Cookies

Makes roughly a dozen cookies, serves one (me). Idk where i got the recipe from

• 150g of cold butter (110g of hot butter)
• 160g of sugar
• 1 pack of vanilla sugar
• 1/2 tbsp of cinnamon
• 1 egg and 1 egg yolk
• 150g of flour
• 1/2 tbsp of baking powder
• a pinch of salt
• an amount of chocolate chips

Instructions:

• combine sugar, vanilla sugar and cinnamon in a bowl
• heat 150g of butter until it's golden brown and toasted
• add in 110g of the hot butter (accounting for evaporation) and mix thoroughly
• let the mixture cool a bit until its only slightly warm to the touch (so the eggs dont cook too fast)
• add in the eggs and whisk until the batter turns a lighter colour
• mix in flour, baking powder and salt and roughly mix (try not to overmix or you will get tough cookies)
• add in the choco chips and mix
• chill in the fridge for 30 minutes
• preheat oven at 180C
• form dough into little tablespoon sized balls
• cover in additional chocolate chips if you want and bake at 180C for 8 minutes. Make sure to leave them space because they will grow!!
• after you take them out let them cool for 30-60 minutes, ideally transfering them to a wire rack after 10 minutes but who has a wire rack in this economy... They should still be soft for a bit so be careful when transfering

best served with choco milk~

Christmas Sugar Cookies

Makes like 24 cookies. Inspired by this recipe

• 280g of flour
• 170g of unsalted butter
• 150g of sugar
• 1 pack of vanilla sugar
• 1 large egg or two teeny weeny eggs
• 1/2 tbsp of baking powder
• a pinch of salt
• 1 pack of vanilla sugar
• optional freeze dried raspberries
• icing (powdered sugar + milk until it's icingy idk i just buy ready-made icing lol)
• sprinkles!!!!

Instructions:

• combine flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl
• beat room-temperature butter, vanilla sugar and sugar for about 3 minutes
• add egg(s) and keep beating until combined
• combine wet ingredients with dry ingredients and mix with a silicone spatula
• throw in raspberries or any other add-ins if you have them
• divide in half and fridge (the original recipe tells you to roll out the cookies before you put them in the fridge but who has that much space?!?!)
• preheat your oven at 180C
• now roll out your cookies and cut them into fun shapes (i only do circles because i dont have cookie cutters. I use a glass instead...circles are fun!!)
• bake for ~10 minutes. Your bake time may highly vary based on your oven (mine only takes 5 minutes). I like soft cookies so i take them out when they are set but only very slightly browned.
• let them cool!!
• add icing to your cookies with the back of a spoon and decorate to your hearts content
• let icing set for 1-2 hours, ideally overnight

yum~!