Each of us probably baked colorful cookie cutters for Christmas as a child and knows that nothing beats the unique smell of freshly baked cookies wafting through the house. In the following article we give you delicious cookie cutter recipe ideas that not only sweeten the pre-Christmas season, but also taste delicious all year round and are quick and easy to make. You can also bake crispy cookies with your children. Let them knead, roll out, cut out and of course snack. Homemade cookies taste even better.
A simple and successful basic recipe for shortcrust pastry
If you want to turn your kitchen into a bakery and conjure up delicious, colorful cookies from your own oven, you can bake classic cut-out cookies from shortcrust pastry. For the basic cookie cutter recipe you will need:
- 250 g Flour
- 60g sugar
- 125 g kalte Butter
- 1 No
- 1 Msp. Backpulver
- pinch of salt
- Lemon peel or cinnamon if desired
Mix all the ingredients for the dough first with the hand mixer and then with your hands until you get a smooth dough. Form a ball out of the shortcrust pastry and wrap it in cling film. Place them in the refrigerator for at least an hour. The cookie dough works even better if you let it rest in a cool place overnight. On a floured work surface, you can roll out the cooled dough to a thickness of 2-3 mm and cut out cookie spaces in the desired shape. Spread the cookies on a tray lined with baking paper and bake them in a preheated oven at 200 degrees for 8-12 minutes. Let the cookies cool and decorate to your heart's content. If you want to turn the delicious cookie cutters into a colorful eye-catcher, you can decorate them with icing or melted chocolate in no time. You can simply mix the icing with 200 g of powdered sugar and 3-4 tablespoons of water or lemon juice with a fork until a smooth mixture is formed. Color the icing with food coloring and then paint your baked goods.
Dough recipe for cookies with honey
If you love the soft and seductive scent of honey, you can use honey to refine tasty cookies. The ingredients you need for this are the following:
- 500 g Flour
- 200 g Honig
- 100 Zucker
- 50 g Butter
- 1 tbsp water
- 1 No
- 1 pack of baking powder
- 1 tsp cinnamon
First mix honey, butter, sugar and water and heat everything gently until you get a homogeneous mixture. Then let the mixture cool briefly. Stir the egg into the mixture and add the flour and baking powder. Then roll out the dough, cut out figures as desired and bake at 200 degrees for about 15 minutes.
Recipe idea for speculoos
If you love the typical smell and taste of speculoos, which reminds us so much of Christmas, you can also make it at homehomemade cookie cuttersEasy to make with the following ingredients:
- 300 g Flour
- 125g brown sugar
- 1 No
- 150 g Butter
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 60 g ground almonds
- grated zest of one lemon
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- Pinch of ground cloves
- ground cardamon
- 70 g flaked almonds for sprinkling
The dough for the speculoos is prepared following the same steps as in the shortcrust pastry cookie cutter recipe. Other aromatic spices that give speculoos its distinctive taste include ginger, gingerbread spice, allspice and star anise.
Cookie cutter recipe with yogurt
You can prepare juicy cookies with a fresh citrus note from the following ingredients:
- 200 g Flour
- 120g sugar
- 70g powdered sugar
- 100 g soft butter
- 100 g ground almonds
- 70 g Greek yogurt or cream yogurt
- grated zest of a lemon
- 1-2 tbsp lemon juice
Mix the butter and sugar with a hand mixer and add the flour, almonds and lemon zest. Stir in half of the yogurt. Knead everything well, form the dough into a ball and chill. Roll out the cold dough between two pieces of cling film and cut out cookies. Bake the small cookies for about 15 minutes at 160 degrees. You can stir in another variant of the icing from the remaining yoghurt, the powdered sugar and the lemon juice. Decorate the cookies with stripes, dots or paint them. The yogurt cookies can be stored in an airtight container for several weeks.
Delicious cookies with marzipan
You can bake delicate marzipan cookies from the following ingredients:
- 500 g Flour
- 200 g Marzipan-Rohmasse
- 2 Owner
- 150g sugar
- 125 g Butter
- 1 pack vanilla sugar
- 1 pack of baking powder
In this cookie cutter recipe, the butter is first mixed with the marzipan. Then add the eggs with the sugar and then stir in the remaining ingredients. Wrap the dough in cling film and keep it cold. Bake figurines of your choice from the marzipan dough for about 8 minutes at 175 degrees.
Vegan cookie cutters without cold spots
The following cookie cutter recipe is perfect for those of you who are impatient bakers. If you're in a hurry, you can make tasty cookies from dough that doesn't need to be chilled before rolling out. This quick recipe contains no animal products and the cookies taste just as delicious as the non-vegan version. Ingredients:
- 300 g Flour
- 120g sugar
- 130 g soft margarine
- 70 ml rice-vanilla drink (can be replaced with any plant-based milk)
Beat the margarine with the sugar until foamy and then gradually add the flour and plant milk. Cut out cookies from the pond and bake at 160 degrees for 10-15 minutes.
Vegan cinnamon stars with hazelnuts and almonds
The fragrant cinnamon stars should definitely not be missing from the delicious Christmas cookies. For the vegan alternative to the classic, you need the following ingredients for around 60 pieces:
- 200 g hazelnuts, ground
- 200 g almonds, ground
- 200g powdered sugar
- 8 tbsp water
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 2 tbsp cinnamon
- 1 tbsp grated orange peel
- Flour for the work surface
All ingredients are mixed together. From the ingredients you get a very sticky dough. If it is difficult to process, you can add a little flour to the mixture. Dust the work surface generously with flour and knead the dough. Then roll out and cut out stars. Bake the biscuits at 230 degrees for 5-7 minutes. The cinnamon stars are still soft, but will firm up as they cool. If you find the scent of cinnamon irresistible, you can add a little cinnamon to the icing made from powdered sugar and a little water and spread it on the delicious cookies.
Cookies for Christmas – baking gingerbread
The long-lasting gingerbread is as much a part of Advent as Santa Claus and is a popular and delicious Christmas cookie. A great cookie cutter recipe for your personal Christmas baking or simply if you fancy aromatic cookies can be found below:
- 500 g rye flour
- 200-250 g Honig
- 100g sugar
- 50 g Butter
- 2 Owner
- 1 Tbsp Baking Soda
- 2 tbsp gingerbread spice (ginger, cardamom, allspice, clove powder, cinnamon)
- some water
- Egg for brushing
Mix all the dry ingredients together and crumble them into the butter. Make a dimple in the mixture and add the eggs, honey and a little water. The result should be a medium-firm dough. Let the dough rest overnight. The next day you can roll out the gingerbread dough and cut it out into the desired shape. Brush the gingerbread with egg and bake at 180 degrees for about 10 minutes.
Dark cookies with cocoa
If you want to prepare delicious cookies with a delicious, chocolatey taste, you will need the following ingredients for around 40 pieces:
- 250 g Flour
- 2 egg yolks
- 150 g Butter
- 50g powdered sugar
- 2 teaspoons cocoa powder
- Salt
- 150 g dark chocolate or white chocolate
Mix flour, powdered sugar and salt and add cocoa powder. Add butter and egg yolks and knead everything into a dough. Chill the dough, then roll it out and cut out stars, circles or other figures. Bake for 7-9 minutes at 175 degrees. Melt the chocolate in a water bath and dip the cooled chocolate cookies in the chocolate and let them drain. You are welcome to decorate the little treats with pistachios or other chopped nuts.
Cookie cutters filled with jam
If you feel like a fruity, sweet dessert, you can prepare cookies according to any cookie cutter recipe and finally stick two cookies together with jam or jelly of your choice. You are welcome to use a small star cutter to give half of the cookies a small window through which the filling can be seen. A delicious idea for filling the double-deckers is the punch-marzipan filling, which you can prepare from the following ingredients:
- 1/2 Orange
- 1 EL Honig
- 150 g Marzipan-Rohmasse
- 1 EL Johannisbeergelee
- 60 ml red wine or cherry juice
- Zimtstange
Boil the red wine with the cinnamon stick, honey and a thinly peeled piece of orange peel. Allow the liquid to reduce slightly and cool down. Take out the orange peel and mix the boiled red wine with the jelly and the finely chopped raw marzipan mixture. Spread the filling on the cookies and place the second cookie on top.
Low carb recipe with quark and almond flour
If you follow a low-carbohydrate diet and don't want to miss out on sweet delicacies, you can bake this low-calorie cookie cutter recipe with low-fat quark at home:
- 300 g Mandelmehl
- 250 g low-fat quark
- 2 Owner
- 5 tbsp milk
- 1 TL Margarine
- 6 tbsp rapeseed oil
- 1 EL Flüßigsüßstoff
- 1 pack of baking powder
- 1 pack vanilla sugar
- Zest of half a lemon
Mix the quark, eggs, oil, milk, vanilla sugar and sweetener into a smooth mixture and stir the lemon peel into the dough. Add flour and baking powder and work into a smooth dough. Let the dough rest, covered, for about half an hour and then knead it. Melt margarine and spread it over the cut-out cookies. Bake the cookies at 180 degrees for about 15 minutes.
Cookies with oatmeal
Crunchy and healthy cookies that you can enjoy with your morning coffee are oatmeal cookies. For the dough you will need:
- 125 g Flour
- 130 g oat flakes
- 60g sugar
- 90 g Butter
- 1 No
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 THE RUM
- 30 g grated chocolate
- some milk for brushing
Knead all the ingredients into a smooth dough and roll it out. Brush the cookies with milk and bake at 190 degrees for 12-15 minutes. If you like a more intense oatmeal taste, you can briefly roast the oatmeal in a pan beforehand.
