Dutch Xmas Cookie (Kerstkransjes)

This easy recipe will make your mouth water and once you eat one cookie, you'll crave for more!

Ingredients

Ingredients
For the dough:
250g plain flour
1/4 tsp baking powder
80g caster sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
The zest from 1 lemon
1/4 tsp almond extract
1 egg
150g salted butter, cut into small squares

To Coat:
1 egg (beaten)
4 tbsp granulated sugar
4 tbsp sliced almonds

Directions

Step 1

Put the all dough ingredients into a bowl and mix well with your hands, using your fingers and thumbs to combine the flour and sugar with the butter, until you have a firm dough.

Step 2

Wrap the dough in baking parchment and put in the fridge for at least 30 minutes.

Step 3

Pre-heat the oven to 180C. Then remove from the fridge and roll out the dough with a rolling pin until about 5 mm thick.

Step 4

Prepare a baking tray with some baking parchment. Then, using a suitable cookie cutter, cut out your cookies and place them on the baking tray, leaving some space between them.

Step 5

The cookies should have a hole in the middle. You can use an icing bag nozzle to cut out the holes.

Step 6

Then brush the cookies with some beaten egg and sprinkle them with sugar and the sliced almonds.

Step 7

Place in the oven at 180C for about 15 minutes or until lightly browned. If your oven has an uneven temperature, you may need to turn the tray 180 degrees halfway through.

Step 8

Remove from the oven and allow the cookies to cool.