New Year's Cookies
Description
The recipe won’t take much time. To decorate the snowmen, always use whatever you have on hand. For the nose, for example, you can pipe it with the same royal icing, tinted orange. You can also pipe the buttons with coloured icing or dark chocolate. Serve warm or chilled. Perfect with tea.
Instructions
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Step 1
Prepare all the necessary ingredients for making cookies.
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Step 2
Crack a large egg into a deep bowl, add 100 grams of powdered sugar, and beat until smooth and even.
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Step 3
Melt the butter in the microwave, pour it into a bowl, and whisk very quickly so the eggs don’t curdle.
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Step 4
Add the starch and salt, pour in the vanilla extract, and gradually add the flour. Its quantity may depend on the size of the egg.
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Step 5
Knead the dough; it should be smooth, not sticky to the hands, like modeling clay.
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Step 6
Roll the dough out between two sheets of parchment paper and cut out rounds with any circular cutter—best of all, a small plating ring. Transfer the cutouts to a parchment-lined baking sheet and chill in the refrigerator for 10 minutes. In the meantime, preheat the oven. Bake the baking sheet in the oven for exactly 10 minutes on top/bottom heat.
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Step 7
In the meantime, prepare everything you need for decorating the cookies. Marshmallows and dark chocolate are required; everything else is optional. I’m using candies for the noses, jelly ribbons for the scarves, and glazed seeds for the buttons.
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Step 8
Beat the chicken egg white with the remaining 100 grams of confectioners’ sugar until glossy and evenly smooth glaze forms; if you have a lemon at home, add a little lemon juice.
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Step 9
Melt the chocolate, make a small slit in the marshmallow, insert a candy as the nose, draw eyes and a mouth with chocolate. Let the chocolate set.
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Step 10
Coat each cookie with sugar icing, place the snowman’s head on top, tear the jelly strips into thin strips with your hands, wrap them around the neck, and place candies shaped like buttons. Leave the snowmen until the icing has fully set.
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Step 11
When the glaze has fully set, pipe or draw the handles with melted dark chocolate and let it set again.
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Step 12
New Year’s cookies “Melting Snowmen” are ready! They’re delicious and great fun! Wishing you warm family holidays!