Christmas Cookies and Cupcakes

3 days to Christmas! I’ve prepared some goodies to give away to friends and colleagues.

For the cookies, I used classic butter cookies recipe taken from Joy of Baking. I’ve shaped the dough with difference sizes of star cutters. Then, after baked, I sprinkled them with icing sugar which made them look snowy. ^_^

I’ve replaced the granulated white sugar with raw sugar which came out nicely. I still can feel the sugar crusty while biting the cookies. Plus, it was not too sweet at all. It was yummy!

Christmas Cookies

Christmas Cookies recipe

Ingredients

226g unsalted butter

135g raw sugar

1 egg

1tsp lemon zest

295g plain flour

1/4tsp salt

What to do

(1) Cream the butter and sugar in a bowl until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg and follow by the lemon zest.

(2) In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour and salt. Gradually add the flour mixture to the creamed mixture and beat just until incorporated.

(3) Make the mixture into a ball and wrap it with cling wrap, and leave it in fridge for 10 minutes.

(4) Shape the cookies with cookies cutter and arrange them on the baking tray.

(5) Bake in the preheat oven at 180 degree for 15-20 minutes.

Christmas Cupcakes

For the mini cupcakes, please click here for the recipe. I’ve added some dried cherry as decoration on top.

Aren’t they cute?

Packaging the cupcakes and give away to my friends and colleagues…

Cute little Santa wishing you

**Merry Christmas n’ Happy New Year**