Cooking recipes - Desserts - How to make Spiced Christmas shortbread?
A recipe for shortbread flavoured with spices. A shortbread recipe to make with your child to help him discover new flavours.
Simply thread them on a pretty tie to give them as a gift or carry them around. These spicy shortbread biscuits will be perfect to accompany tea time or for the festive season. Simply use the shapes of a tree, star or Santa Claus to make them into Christmas shortbread. Recipe for children to make shortbread:
Ingredients for spiced Christmas shortbread:
- 300 g of flour
- 100 g caster sugar
- 150 g butter
- 2 eggs
- 1 tablespoon of cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon of 4 spices
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- Possibly 1/2 teaspoon anise powder
- 1 pinch of salt
- Christmas shaped cookie cutters (or a small glass)
- 1 rolling pin
The stages of the spiced Christmas shortbread
Depending on his age, help your child to:
Weigh and melt the butter in the microwave.
Weigh all the ingredients and place them as you go in the bowl of the blender:
the flour,
spices
melted butter
the eggs
sugar
salt
Switch on the robot with the appropriate kneading whisk and let it work! Add a little flour if the dough is too soft, and a little water if it is too dry.
Take the dough out and work it until it no longer sticks to your fingers. Make a ball and flour the table works.
Roll out the dough with a rolling pin to a thickness of 1 cm. Just lightly flour the rolling pin so that it does not stick.
Cut out shapes with the cookie cutters or a small glass with floured edges.
Place all the Christmas shortbread on a sheet of baking paper and place in the oven. Bake for 10 to 15 minutes in a hot oven at 220 d°.
Remove the Christmas spice shortbread from the oven and place it on a rack while it cools.
The spiced Christmas shortbread can be eaten immediately or stored in a tin.
