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Mix and match three differently coloured and flavoured biscuit doughs to create striking festive treats. Simple to make, these vanilla, matcha and chocolate Christmas butter biscuits are also very easy to eat.
Christmas is traditionally a time for baking biscuits and I usually make the most of it.I tend tomake anold favourite or two, but also use the occasion to try out a somenew recipes. One of them, this time,were these Christmas Butter Biscuits.
Christmas Butter Biscuits
When I saw some Christmas tree cookies over at Kerry Cooks, I knew they were going to the ones I would base my cookie swap on. It’s such a clever but simple idea. They look particularly festive and they have the added bonus of being great fun to make.
My Christmas butter biscuits were going to be a bit different, of course. As regular readers will know,I’m not overly keen on using artificial colours and prefer to use natural ones that also have a flavour. I wanted something green for the christmas trees, but couldn’t leave out my favourite chocolate either.
We Should Cocoa is all about Christmas thismonth so I had this very much in mind when planning my biscuits. However, green and brown together seemed a little drab – what a dilemma. In the end, I decided to go all out and make three different doughs: vanilla, chocolate and matcha.
The process of making these cookies is surprisingly simple. It’s just a question of rolling out each dough, cutting circles, then stamping out a star (or whatever designs you fancy), then swapping the stamped out shapes over. Every cookie gets an outer flavour with a different flavour in the middle with contrasting colours. Genius.
These Christmas butter biscuits are a great recipe for kids to have a go out. They’ll love stamping out the shapes and swapping the dough around. Or is this just me?
Cookie Swap
As well asbaking biscuits for friends and family, this year I was involved in a cookie swap. Andrea over at Made with Pink was the instigator of this exciting venture. Basically, a group of food bloggers were allocated a member of the groupto bake for and would receive in return cookies from another member. All was to be kept secret until the cookies turned up and the baker was then revealed.
I’ve never taken partin anything quite like this before and I really enjoyed both the execution and the anticipation.The “lucky” recipient of my Christmas butter biscuits turned out to be Kevin over at The Crafty Larder.
Biscuits in the Post
The anticipation of receiving my biscuits grewas the days went by. What would they be? Who would they be from. At last I received a beautifully and carefully wrapped parcel in the post – not a biscuit was broken. Eagerlyopened, Ifound two parcels of biscuits inside along with a Christmas card from Andrea. It just gets better and better.
I had a stack of festively stamped sugar biscuits and quite a few large mint chocolate chip & M&M oat cookies. Both were delicious, mint in biscuit form is fairly unusual, so I dived into one of those first. The mint was really refreshing and the cookies delicious. In fact both sets of biscuits were very moreish and not having made them myself, they were particularly enjoyable.
Many thanks to Andrea both fororganising the cookie swap and for my scrumptiousbiscuits.
Other Christmas Biscuit Recipes You Might Like
- Chilli shortbread biscuits
- Chocolate crinkle cookies with roasted hazelnuts
- Snowball cookies
- Spicy gingerbread with limoncello icing
- Wholemeal clotted cream shortbread
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Christmas Butter Biscuits – The Recipe
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Christmas Butter Biscuits
Three differently coloured and flavoured biscuit doughs are used here to great effect. Simple to make, these vanilla, matcha and chocolate biscuits will delight all your friends and family.
Prep Time45 minutes mins
Cook Time12 minutes mins
Total Time1 hour hr
Course: Afternoon Tea, Snack
Cuisine: British
Keyword: biscuits, chocolate, Christmas, cookies, matcha, vanilla
Servings: 50 biscuits
Calories: 94kcal
Author: Choclette @ Tin and Thyme
Ingredients
- 250 g unsalted butter
- 250 g vanilla sugar or 1 tsp vanilla extract (I have a jar of golden caster sugar permanently on the go, in which I place any spent vanilla pods)
- 2 large eggs
- 250 g wholemeal spelt flour or wholemeal flour (I used freekah flour)
- 250 g plain flour (all purpose flour)
- 4 tsp matcha green tea powder
- 6 tsp cocoa powder
Metric – US Customary
Instructions
Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
Beat in the eggs, one by one along with the vanilla extract if using.
Work in the flour until it all comes together.
Divide the mixture into three.
Add the cocoa powder to one batch and the matcha to another and work that into the dough.
Cover each one and leave to chill in a cool place for half an hour or so.
Roll the doughs out to about the thickness of a £1 coin and cut out circles that are big enough to allow for your chosen shape to be taken from the middle. I used a 7 cm diameter cutter for the stars and a 8 cm diameter cutter for the Christmas trees.
Place the biscuits on lined baking sheets, then cut our stars, Christmas trees or whatever else you fancy from the middle of the biscuits.
Transfer the vanilla cut outs into the equivalent shaped holes in the matcha and chocolate biscuits and do the same with the others so each biscuit has a different coloured and flavoured centre.
Bake at 180℃ (350℉, Gas 4) for about 12 minutes or until the biscuits are just starting to change colour.
Notes
Adapted from Christmas Tree Cookies by Kerry Cooks
Please note:calories and other nutritional information are per serving. They’re approximate and will depend on serving size and exact ingredients used.
Nutrition Estimate
Calories: 94kcal | Carbohydrates: 12g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 4g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Cholesterol: 17mg | Sodium: 3mg | Potassium: 28mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 5g | Vitamin A: 146IU | Calcium: 5mg | Iron: 1mg
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Linkies
Rebecca over at Munchies and Munchkins is hosting #WeShouldCocoa this month and very aptly chose Christmas as the theme. These Christmas Butter Biscuitsare my entry.
These matcha, chocolate and vanilla cookies also go to Dom over at Belleau Kitchen for Simple Eggcellent.
