Butter Cookies for Christmas

Quick butter cookies that hold their shape well for cutouts and can be decorated with icing or powdered sugar. A classic Christmas bake for the whole family.

By Timo · 5 servings · 60 minutes

Ingredients

• 250 g wheat flour
• 100 g sugar
• 125 g soft butter
• 1 Stück egg
• 1 Packung vanilla sugar
• 1 Prise salt
• 50 g powdered sugar for decorating

Method

1. Mix the flour, sugar, vanilla sugar and a pinch of salt in a bowl.
2. Add the butter in pieces and the egg, and knead everything into a smooth dough.
3. Wrap the dough in cling film and let it rest in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes.
4. Preheat the oven to 180 °C top and bottom heat and line a baking tray with baking paper.
5. Roll out the dough on a little flour to about 4 mm thick and cut out cookies with cookie cutters.
6. Place the cookies on the baking tray and bake for about 8 to 10 minutes until golden yellow.
7. Let the cookies cool completely on a wire rack.
8. Stir the powdered sugar smooth with one tablespoon of water and decorate the cookies with it, or dust them with powdered sugar.