4-ingredients Christmas Cookies // Christmas food

4-ingredients Christmas Cookies // Christmas food

🌱🍪🎄 It’s Christmas time and we all know what this means – Christmas cookies!  Grandma Sita’s plant-based recipe is quick and easy to make, fun to do with kids and even helps you to clear out leftover jam and chocolate. So grab your cookie cutters and sprinkles – and ready, set, bake!

😋🍋👌 These fool-proof Christmas cookies are ready to enjoy in no time. The dough only requires four ingredients and a little chilling time in the fridge. Grandma Sita gave her cookies a special twist by adding lime to the dough but you are welcome to use lemon instead. 

♻️🤩 When it comes to decorating, these cookies are a great way to use any leftover chocolate or jam that has been sitting in your cupboard for a while. Your kids can get creative decorating the cookies with sprinkles or chopped nuts to turn them into a pretty treat for the festive season.

📗Christmas in many cultures was a time of visiting friends and family. Since it was cold outside and the ground was hard and frozen solid, farming was not an option. So, cookies were made in large amounts and stored to share the spirit of the season with all those who visited.

Most recipes can be made plant-based by substituting butter with a vegan alternative. 🌱
Grandma Sita’s sustainable cuisine is always tasty and baked from scratch with lots of love. 💚
Grab your cookie cutters – and ready, set, bake!

INGREDIENTS

300g wheat flour
100g raw sugar (the fine kind)
200g vegan butter (chilled)
1 lime
1 tsp sugar-free vanilla baobab powder by Social Vanilla

To decorate:
(homemade) berry jam
icing sugar
water or lime juice
chocolate
sprinkles
chopped nuts

METHOD

1. Add sugar and flour to a bowl and mix.
2. Cut the cold butter into small cubes and add to the bowl together with the lime and vanilla.
3. Knead the dough with your hands until you can form a ball. Cover with a bowl and transfer to the fridge for 30 minutes. In the meantime, preheat the oven to 180° degrees.
4. Dust a surface with flour and roll out the dough. It should be a few millimetres thick. Now grab your cookie cutters and stamp out your favourite shapes.
5. Transfer the cookies to a baking tray lined with (reusable) baking paper and bake them for 8-10 minutes. They should still be light in colour. Let cool down.
6. Melt leftover chocolate in a bain-marie and/or mix the icing sugar with water or lime juice until you have a thick paste. Brush on the cookies and decorate with sprinkles, nuts, …
7. To glue two cookies together, brush the top of one of them with jam and glue the other one on top. Let the jam dry, then dust with icing sugar.

These fool-proof Christmas cookies are ready to enjoy in no time.
Minimizing food waste can be fun after all!
Got some leftover jam? It’ll make the perfect glue for twice the cookie joy!


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