Every year, the cookie cutters, the rolling pin, and the good recipes for Christmas cookies are dug out of the cupboards. You quickly realize: the Christmas season is here again. What would the Advent season be without delicious cinnamon stars, snowflakes, and coconut macaroons.pte for Christmas cookies are dug out of the cupboards. You quickly realize: the Christmas season is here again. What would the Advent season be without delicious cinnamon stars, snowflakes, and coconut macaroons. Cookies and Christmas cookies are simply part of the festival of love – but having delicious cookie dough recipes is not enough! Many people have already bitten off more than they could chew with the recipes. To ensure that the Christmas baking in your home kitchen is not a complete failure, the best tips and tricks for preparing gingerbread, vanilla crescents, and more are listed here.
Which flour is ideal for cookies?
There are many different types of flour available on the market. However, for baking Christmas cookies, wheat flours are best suited. Rye, buckwheat, and spelt flour, on the other hand, are less advisable. Rye flour must be soured to be easily digestible and have good binding properties. This, in turn, only works with sourdough. If you were to use these doughs for cookies, you would end up with sour-tasting cookies. Buckwheat flour, in turn, contains no gluten proteins – the same applies to spelt flour. Therefore, these types of flour are also unsuitable for Christmas cookies.
Which fat should I use for Christmas cookies?
Even if baking margarine seems predestined at first glance, you should rather keep your hands off it. Because of this addition, the cookies only taste bland and are also unhealthy. Baking margarine is suitable for baking and frying, but should not be used for cookies. Be careful with baking margarine when cooking – it contains plenty of saturated fatty acids, which can lead to cardiovascular diseases.
Butter gives the Christmas cookies a great aroma, but here too, there are even more saturated fatty acids than in baking margarine, as well as cholesterol. This can negatively affect blood lipid levels, which can be responsible for arteriosclerosis and heart attacks.
The normal margarine does not give the cookies as delicious an aroma as butter, but it is significantly healthier. Vegetable margarine contains only 32% saturated fatty acids and is therefore much better rated than baking margarine or butter. However, do not use diet margarine, as it is not suitable for baking and frying.
Oil is number one when baking. It is much healthier and versatile. However, you should make sure that the oil can be heated. Rapeseed oil is therefore best suited. Oils with a butter flavor are also available – these contain hardly any unhealthy fatty acids, but all the more healthy omega-3 fatty acids.What do I have to consider when baking?The right room temperature
is particularly important for the ingredients. If all materials have the same temperature, they are easiest to stir and mix.
The First, beat the fat with the sugar and then the eggs until frothy. Finally, add the flour. If it is stirred for too long, the gluten proteins will dissolve and lumps will form. If the flour is sifted before processing, the dough will be particularly light.The baking tray should be greased or lined with baking paper before baking. If you don't do this, the Christmas cookies will stick to the tray and all your effort will have been in vain.
Also pay attention to the baking time. Compared to a cake, cookies only need
a few minutes
in the oven. Check the cookies every now and then and also pay attention to the underside of the cookies.Typical baking mistakes!Macaroons do not rise
The mistake usually lies in the roasting of the ingredients. First mix the egg white, sugar, and coconut flakes or hazelnuts together, then heat everything on the stove at medium temperature while stirring until light bubbles form. Only then pipe the lukewarm dough onto the wafers.
- Vanilla crescents break
Many people simply use too much powdered sugar for the dough preparation. However, 80g of powdered sugar is enough for 280g of flour. Do not knead the dough too much. 6 minutes of kneading time is perfectly sufficient.
- Posted on: 12/10/2012
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