Christmas Star Shortbread cookies
Christmas Star Shortbread cookies
I always associate stars with Christmas time, but I guess you could make these biscuits at any time of the year. Stars are much more fun to eat than just plain circles because you can bite off each of the points first! Haha. The icing is an essential addition to this almond shortbread biscuit, not only for its colour, but for its delicious sweetness! Yum!
Christmas Star Shortbread cookies
Ingredients:
Shortbread cookies: 1 ¼ cups plain flour, ¾ cup almond meal, 125g butter softened, chopped, 1/3 cup icing sugar, 1 egg, 1 tbsp milk
Icing: 1 eggwhite, 1 ½ cups icing sugar, food colouring-yellow
Steps: To make cookies: process the flour, almond meal, butter, icing sugar, egg and milk until well combined. Then knead the dough into a ball on a lightly floured surface. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Roll the dough out between two sheets of baking paper until a 5 mm thickness. Cut Star shapes from dough using cookie cutter and place on a baking tray lined with baking paper, 3 cm apart.
Bake in a moderate oven, 180 degrees Celsius for 8-10 minutes. Leave to cool on wire racks. Spread biscuits with icing when cold
To make icing: beat 1 egg white in a small bowl with electric mixer until just frothy then gradually add sifted icing sugar until mixture forms stiff peaks. Tint the icing with 2-3 drops of yellow food dye, then spread the icing onto the cooled biscuits.
Makes about 40
