Delicious Christmas Cookies | Baking Ideas to Inspire Your Holiday Baking
Do you love Christmas cookies?
The holidays are a time for family, friends, and delicious food. And what could be more festive than sharing your favorite holiday treats with everyone you know?
We’ve got over 100 Christmas Cookie designs (yes, that's over 100 #ChristmasCookies) and ideas to inspire your holiday baking this year. From gingerbread men to chocolate and cranberry magic bars, there’s something here for every taste. So grab some flour and sugar and get started on these tasty treats!
Which is your favorite Christmas cookie design? Which do you want to whip up this year? Let me know in the comments!
Want to make me attempt to recreate one of these delicious-looking Christmas cookie recipes?
Like this video and submit your vote in the comments below with the hashtag #makethis and when this video reaches 500 likes, I will do my best to recreate one of these beautiful Christmas cookies and will post the results! It’s gonna be hilarious!!!
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A Slow Living Christmas | Orange and Cranberry Garland
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This year I decided to make this Christmas a slow one and make natural decorations and I'm so glad I did! The oranges smell amazing and the cranberries have such a beautiful deep red color. If you've never tried making orange and cranberry garlands, give it a try this year!
They are so simple to make, you just need some string and a needle and then you can combine the fruit any way you want. I went for separate garland for each, but you can do both on one string and it will look beautiful too! You can even make ornaments with them as well.
To dry oranges :
1. Preheat oven to 200 F
2. Slice oranges thinly and evenly and pat excess liquid
3. Place sliced oranges on cooling rack and places onto oven rack with no cookie sheet underneath
4. Dry for about 2 hours. (Keep an eye on them as some will dry out much faster than others. Some of mine took an hour and a half.)
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How to make Sugared Cranberries
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How to make Sugared Cranberries.
Perfect to decorate your Christmas cakes, cupcakes, Xmas muffins, Yuletide logs, they are even nice in a festive cocktail etc. Happy Holidays everyone!
TIMINGS:
Prep Time 10 mins.
Cooling Time 2 hours
Total Time 2 hours 10mins.
INGREDIENTS:
1 cups (7.9floz/235ml) water.
1 cup (7oz/200g) white sugar.
1 cup (3 ½oz/100g) fresh cranberries.
¼ cup (1oz/25g) white sugar to sprinkle.
METHOD:
1. Mix together the water and sugar.
2. Bring to the boil, whisking to dissolve the sugar.
3. Add the cranberries and stir to coat.
4. Remove with a slotted spoon and transfer to a wire rack.
5. Cool for about 1 hour until the cranberries are no longer sticky.
6. Sprinkle the cranberries with sugar.
7. Dry for at least one hour.
8. Use to decorate cakes, cupcakes, muffins, yuletide logs, cocktails etc.
9. Mmm Scrummy!!!
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Foraging Pine & Spruce | Pine Uses & Recipes | What to Forage in Winter | Spruce Shortbread Cookies
Did you know that settlers could have been drinking pine tea during the winter to fend off scurvy? Pine tea delivers enough vitamin C to do that.
If you ever wondered what to forage in winter... conifer needles (i.e. pine needles and spruce needles) fit the ticket.
Foraging pine and spruce needles is incredibly easy. In fact, it barely warrants the term foraging! It mainly means just walking out somewhere where there are pine and spruce trees and getting a few needles.
Many parts of the pine tree are edible. The inner bark can be ground into flour and used to make bread. The needles are great in tea, can be mixed with flour to bake some winter treats, can be infused into oil and turned into an essential oil. Of course, the acorns can be ground into flour. The little nuts found in those acorns are also edible--as you well know. You've probably eaten them in pesto.
Pine needle tea has high levels of vitamin C & vitamin A. It is full of antioxidants. It is also great for coughs and congestion. It relieves sore throats and helps remove excess mucus from your lungs. Not only that, but it's available all year long. Now that I'm getting deeper into foraging, I'm looking for things I can forage during the dead of winter. And conifer needles fit the bill.
Pine is great for foraging in Canada and anywhere else where pine trees grow. Below are some of pine uses (and spruce uses). Please know that this also applies to other conifers as well. Just use whatever you have around--but make sure you know what you are actually picking!
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PINE USES & RECIPES
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Pine vinegar:
Pack a jar full of washed and dried pine needles, pour the vinegar in and let it infuse for a few weeks. Then strain and store in a dry, cool place.
This is great as a facial toner, to drink in your morning water to help clean your body, to add to salads so your vinaigrette can pack a mean forest punch, to use for cleaning surfaces, to marinate meats and fish in, to use as a final hair rinse.
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Spruce-infused olive oil:
Pack a jar full of washed and dried spruce needles, pour the olive oil in and let it naturally infuse for a few weeks in the sunlight.
You can then use it as you would use olive oil in your kitchen by using this spruce olive oil to sauté veggies in, to rub on meats, to use in sweets and baked goods and to drizzle on ice cream, to massage in kale, and the list goes on.
You can also use it as a hair and face mask, to add to your handmade soaps, to use as a massage oil or carrier oil for your essential oils, etc.
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How to make Pine tea:
Don't boil it as you will lose some of its vitamin content. Just place a few washed needles into a kettle, and pour some almost boiling water on top of it and let it sit, covered, for 15 minutes. Then strain the tea and drink.
The pine to water ratio depends on you. 1/2 cup of pine needles to 3 cups of water is a good ratio. I tend to up that ratio since I like a deep flavour.
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Pine/Spruce Shortbread Cookie Recipe:
Blend 1 tablespoon of conifer needles with 1 cup and 2 tablespoons of all purpose flour until the whole mixture turns green.
Sift to get some unblended bits out.
Add in 1/2 cup of butter, 1/2 teaspoon of salt, and 1/3 cup of sugar.
Mix it together with your hands until you can form a crumbly ball.
Dust a surface with flour and roll out the dough with a rolling pin, by flattening the dough with your hands and using the rolling pin to roll it out.
Cut out the shapes of your cookies.
Place them on a parchment paper covered cookie sheet.
Bake in a 350*F oven for 10 to 12 minutes, or until they are slightly golden around the edges.
Cool on a wire rack and enjoy.
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This is the original recipe. It calls for coconut oil instead of butter:
A few words on those spruce shortbread cookies/pine shortbread cookies:
These pine shortbread cookies are not for the faint of heart. Some people will probably not like them. I found their bitter interesting and quite enjoyable. Some, like my boyfriend, did not find it enjoyable at all. It's a matter of palate. However, young pine needles would probably taste less bitter. Spruce tips would probably be excellent. I need to try it come spring and report back on that. But, since I made them mainly to honour winter and to find a way to bring the forest into the kitchen, I'm quite happy with the results.
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