Cakespy: Red and Green Christmas Cookies

Cakespy: Red and Green Christmas Cookies might be a good recipe to expand your dessert recipe box. One serving contains 352 calories, 3g of protein, and 13g of fat. This recipe serves 8. For 48 cents per serving, this recipe covers 4% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. It can be enjoyed any time, but it is especially good for Christmas. This recipe from Serious Eats has 6 fans. A mixture of baking soda, confectioners' sugar, egg, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so tasty. It is a good option if you're following a lacto ovo vegetarian diet. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 45 minutes. With a spoonacular score of 9%, this dish is improvable. Similar recipes include Cakespy: Turn Leftover Christmas Cookies Into Croutons, Cakespy: Christmas Goose Trompe L'oeil Cake, and Red Velvet Christmas Cookies.

Servings: 8

 

Ingredients:

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1 stick (1/2 cup) butter

1/3 cup well-shaken buttermilk

2 cups confectioners' sugar (you may not use all of it)

1 large egg

1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 cup granulated sugar

red and green food coloring

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon vanilla

Equipment:

oven

whisk

bowl

hand mixer

ice cream scoop

baking sheet

spatula

Cooking instruction summary:

Procedures 1 Make the cookies. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt in a bowl; in a separate small bowl, stir together buttermilk and vanilla. 2 Beat together butter and sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes, then add egg, beating until combined well. Mix in flour mixture and buttermilk mixture alternately in batches at low speed (scraping down side of bowl occasionally), beginning and ending with flour mixture. Mix until smooth (the texture is somewhere between cake batter and drop cookie batter). 3 Using a cookie or ice cream scoop, put mounds of batter about 3 inches apart on a parchment-lined baking sheet. If you use a cookie scoop, you will probably get about 12 medium-sized cookies; if you use an ice cream scoop, which is generally a bit bigger, you will get about 8 big cookies. Bake in middle of oven until tops are puffed and pale golden, and cookies spring back when touched, 15 to 17 minutes. Transfer with a metal spatula to a rack and let cool until they are room temperature. 4 While the cookies cool, make the frosting. In an electric mixer, cream the butter, adding the vanilla, and then the confectioners' sugar, bit by bit, until it has reached your desired consistency. Separate your frosting into two separate dishes. Combine the frosting in each dish with food coloring (I used about 10 drops of green and 10 drops of red for strong, vibrant colors) until fully combined. 5 To frost, first turn the cookies over—you will actually frost the flat bottom side. Frost the cookies one side at a time. I found that I could get a sharper line down the middle if I started frosting from the outside in, finishing with a stroke down the center. When adding the second color of frosting, the key is to make sure you frost the part where the two colors touch last, frosting the dividing line in one smooth stroke (no backtracking or you will drag the other color of frosting back with you!). 6 Serve immediately; store at room temperature in an airtight container. I found that these tasted best either the day made or the next day.

 

Step by step:


1. 1

2. Make the cookies. Preheat the oven to 350°F.

3. Whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt in a bowl; in a separate small bowl, stir together buttermilk and vanilla.

4. 2

5. Beat together butter and sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes, then add egg, beating until combined well.

6. Mix in flour mixture and buttermilk mixture alternately in batches at low speed (scraping down side of bowl occasionally), beginning and ending with flour mixture.

7. Mix until smooth (the texture is somewhere between cake batter and drop cookie batter).

8. 3

9. Using a cookie or ice cream scoop, put mounds of batter about 3 inches apart on a parchment-lined baking sheet. If you use a cookie scoop, you will probably get about 12 medium-sized cookies; if you use an ice cream scoop, which is generally a bit bigger, you will get about 8 big cookies.

10. Bake in middle of oven until tops are puffed and pale golden, and cookies spring back when touched, 15 to 17 minutes.

11. Transfer with a metal spatula to a rack and let cool until they are room temperature.

12. 4

13. While the cookies cool, make the frosting. In an electric mixer, cream the butter, adding the vanilla, and then the confectioners' sugar, bit by bit, until it has reached your desired consistency. Separate your frosting into two separate dishes.

14. Combine the frosting in each dish with food coloring (I used about 10 drops of green and 10 drops of red for strong, vibrant colors) until fully combined.

15. 5

16. To frost, first turn the cookies over—you will actually frost the flat bottom side. Frost the cookies one side at a time. I found that I could get a sharper line down the middle if I started frosting from the outside in, finishing with a stroke down the center. When adding the second color of frosting, the key is to make sure you frost the part where the two colors touch last, frosting the dividing line in one smooth stroke (no backtracking or you will drag the other color of frosting back with you!).

17. 6

18. Serve immediately; store at room temperature in an airtight container. I found that these tasted best either the day made or the next day.


Nutrition Information:

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353k Calories
3g Protein
12g Total Fat
57g Carbs
1% Health Score
Limit These
Calories
353k
18%

Fat
12g
19%

  Saturated Fat
7g
48%

Carbohydrates
57g
19%

  Sugar
42g
47%

Cholesterol
54mg
18%

Sodium
335mg
15%

Get Enough Of These
Protein
3g
6%

Selenium
9µg
13%

Vitamin B1
0.16mg
11%

Folate
39µg
10%

Vitamin B2
0.16mg
9%

Vitamin A
404IU
8%

Manganese
0.14mg
7%

Vitamin B3
1mg
6%

Iron
1mg
6%

Phosphorus
45mg
5%

Vitamin D
0.47µg
3%

Vitamin E
0.41mg
3%

Vitamin B5
0.24mg
2%

Calcium
21mg
2%

Fiber
0.53g
2%

Vitamin B12
0.13µg
2%

Copper
0.04mg
2%

Zinc
0.27mg
2%

Magnesium
6mg
2%

Potassium
47mg
1%

Vitamin B6
0.02mg
1%

Vitamin K
1µg
1%

covered percent of daily need
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