Introduction: Easy Snowflake Cookies

About: I am a Master student for chemical and biological engineering. I love surprising people, so I cook very often discovering my own receipes to surprise my guests with new colours or tastings.

In this instructable I'm going to show you how to make snowflake shaped cookies, which will be an eyecatcher on your table.

Step 1:

You will need:

Ingredients:

For the dough
  • 250 g flour
  • 125 g sugar
  • 125 g butter
  •     8 g vanilla sugar
  • 1 Egg
  • 1/2 tbsp. oil
  • 1 tspn. baking soda
For the topping:
  • marshmallow fluff
  • coarse sugar
Tools:
  • parchment paper
  • printed snowflake pattern
  • mixer
  • pastry bag or something similar

Step 2: The Mixing

1. Add the egg to the sugar and the vanilla sugar and beat them until you get a bright fluffy mass
2. Now add the butter and again beat it until it is smooth
3. Mix the baking soda with the flour, add it to the rest and start beating it
4. During the beating add the oil
5. The Beating is finished, when you ge a plain mass, which you can easily form with your fingers
6. Let the dough rest for about an hour

Step 3: The Baking

1. Fill in the dough into your pastry bag
2. Put your printed snowflake pattern under the parchment paper, both on a baking tray
3. Now extrude your dough along the lines of your snowflake
4. Put it into the oven for about 8-10 minutes at 180°C

Step 4: The Decoration

1. Fill the marshmallow fluff in your pastry bag
2. Extrude it along your snowflake
3. Finally spread your coarse sugar all over it
----> finished

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