As Christmas is fast approaching I thought I would make a few extra video tutorials this December all themed around my festive baking. If anyone has ever seen my blog posts around this time of year they will know one of my favourite things to make for family and friends are my Christmas pudding, chocolate chip cookies. These are great, whether you are bringing out a whole plate, or packaging them up for family and friends as gifts. So for this reason I thought I would start off my Christmas tutorials with my Christmas cookies…
Please find below the video tutorial. I really hope you like it and enjoy making your own Christmas cookies. If you do please subscribe to my YouTube channel. Also I would love to hear what you think of my new video tutorials, so if you have any comments or questions please just let me know.
Christmas Pudding Chocolate Cookies
Ingredients
- 225 g Butter (8oz)
- 140 g Caster Sugar (5oz)
- 250 g Plain Flour (9oz)
- 25 g Cocoa Powder (1oz)
- 350 g Chocolate Chips (12oz)
- Pinch of Salt
- 1 Egg Yolk
- 2 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 200 g Royal Icing Sugar to decorate
- Red and green fondant to decorate
Instructions
- Into a mixing bowl sift in the plain flour. Add the bicarbonate of soda, the ground cinnamon and the ground ginger and pop to one side.
- Into a saucepan add the butter, caster sugar, the brown sugar and the golden syrup and place this onto your hob until all the ingredients have melted together.
- You then want to add your melted ingredients to your dry ingredients in your mixing bowl. Using a wooden spoon or spatula mix this all together until it forms a dough. You can finish this off mixing it with your hands to make sure the ingredients are all combined.
- Take a piece of cling film / plastic wrap and push down your dough, coving it over. Place this into the fridge for 30 minutes.
- Whilst your dough is in the fridge you will need to print off and cut out your template pieces. You can find my template here.
- After 30 minutes take your dough out of the fridge. You can then dust your surface with a little flour and roll out your dough until its around 5mm in thickness. Then use a knife to cut out all of your shapes and place on a baking tray.
- Place your cut out shapes into a preheated oven set to 180 degrees Celsius for 10 minutes. You want the edges just to start changing colour.
- After 10 minutes you can take your shapes out of the oven to let them cool. I like to use my templates and carefully (they will be hot) cut around the template a second time, to cut off any areas that have spread in size. This will help your house fit together a little easier.
- You then have all the pieces for your gingerbread house. I like to use royal icing to stick my pieces together. Watch how to decorate your Gingerbread house in my tutorial above.
