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🍰 Colorful Window Cookies for Hanging

319 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

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Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1. Mix flour, salt, baking powder, grated orange zest, and cinnamon in a bowl.
  2. 2. Beat the softened butter in a separate bowl using a hand mixer with a whisk until fluffy.
  3. 3. Gradually stir in sugar and an egg into the butter and mix everything well.
  4. 4. Stir the honey into the butter-sugar mixture.
  5. 5. Add the flour mixture gradually and knead everything into a smooth dough.
  6. 6. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and chill it in the refrigerator for about 60 minutes.
  7. 7. Roll out the dough on a floured surface to a thickness of about 3 millimeters using a rolling pin.
  8. 8. Cut out rectangles or squares from the dough using cookie cutters.
  9. 9. Place the cut-out cookies on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
  10. 10. Punch 2 to 4 small windows into each cookie using a small cutter.
  11. 11. Make a hole for hanging in the dough using the back of a wooden skewer.
  12. 12. Preheat the oven to 160 degrees Celsius with top and bottom heat.
  13. 13. Place the candies in a freezer bag and crush them with a wooden spoon.
  14. 14. Evenly sprinkle the crushed candy pieces into the windows of the cookies.
  15. 15. Distribute the candy pieces in the windows using a brush.
  16. 16. Bake the cookies on the middle rack for about 8 minutes until golden brown.
  17. 17. Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet.
  18. 18. Carefully remove the cookies from the baking sheet.
  19. 19. Hang the cookies on a string.
  20. 20. Optionally place the cookies in a gingerbread house and serve them.

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