Only 5 ingredients: The recipe for buttery sour cream cookies

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Quick, easy and absolutely delicious: with this recipe for delicious Christmas cookies you will save time and nerves.

Are your ovens already running at full speed? From November onwards I'll be baking as much as I can in my kitchen.

In addition to the classics, likeor, I also like to bake these heavenly sour cream cookies with cinnamon and sugar. The sour cream makes the dough super smooth and easy to roll out and cut out.

Simple sour cream and cinnamon cookies

Cinnamon and sugar are a well-known dream team. But if you want to make it extra Christmassy, ​​you can add a pinch of cardamom and nutmeg to the cinnamon-sugar mixture - this will make the cookies even more aromatic.

And if the fairly neutral sour cream cookies aren't sweet enough for you, you can use the dougharound half a packet of vanilla sugaradd to. A little lemon or orange zest also goes wonderfully into the cookie dough. Have fun baking!

You need these ingredients for approx. 2 trays:

  • 200 g sour cream, room temperature
  • 150g butter, room temperature
  • 320 g flour (plus flour for the work surface)

To roll around

  • 5 tbsp sugar
  • 2 tsp cinnamon

And the cookies are so easy:

1. Mix the soft butter with a hand mixer until fluffy. Then stir in the sour cream. Add flour and knead into a smooth dough. Form it into a ball and wrap it in cling film. Approximately30 minutesput in the fridge.

2. Then roll out the dough on a floured work surface. Cut out stars or other shapes (You can get Christmas cookie cutters here on Amazon*) and spread on a baking tray lined with baking paper.

3. Place the cookies in the preheated oven (180 degrees top/bottom heator160 degrees circulating air) bake for approx. 15-20 minutes.

4. Mix cinnamon and sugar in a bowl and roll the warm cookies in it. Have fun baking and snacking!

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