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🍰 Colorful Cookie Advent Calendar

485 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

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Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1. Separate the egg. Keep the yolk for the dough and set the white aside for later.
  2. 2. Mix 300 grams of flour and 80 grams of sugar in a large bowl.
  3. 3. Add the egg yolk and 160 grams of cold, cubed butter to the flour-sugar mixture.
  4. 4. Knead the ingredients with your hands until you have a smooth dough.
  5. 5. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap.
  6. 6. Chill the dough in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes.
  7. 7. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius with top and bottom heat.
  8. 8. Take the dough out of the fridge and knead it briefly.
  9. 9. Dust a work surface with flour and roll out the dough to about 0.5 cm thickness.
  10. 10. Cut out squares from the dough using a cookie cutter.
  11. 11. Place the cookies on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
  12. 12. Bake the cookies for 12 to 15 minutes until golden brown.
  13. 13. Remove the cookies from the oven and let them cool down completely.
  14. 14. Cut a lemon in half and squeeze out the juice.
  15. 15. Mix 150 grams of powdered sugar with 2 tablespoons of lemon juice until smooth.
  16. 16. Divide the sugar mixture into two bowls.
  17. 17. Color the mixture in one bowl with blue food coloring.
  18. 18. Brush the cooled cookies alternately with white and blue icing.
  19. 19. Let the icing on the cookies dry completely.
  20. 20. Whip the previously separated egg white stiffly using a hand mixer with a whisk attachment.
  21. 21. Sift 200 grams of powdered sugar over the egg white.
  22. 22. Gently fold in 1 teaspoon of lemon juice into the mixture.
  23. 23. Divide this white mixture into several small bowls.
  24. 24. Color the portions as you like with food coloring.
  25. 25. Mix one portion with cocoa powder for brown icing.
  26. 26. Fill the different icings into separate freezer bags.
  27. 27. Cut a small corner off each bag.
  28. 28. Decorate the cookies creatively with the colorful icings.
  29. 29. Enjoy!

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