{Embossed cookies}
Preparation time: 20 min
Cooking time: 15 min
Yield: 24 cookies
Ingredients
- 400 g flour
- 125 g sugar
- 200 g butter, cold and diced
- 1 egg
- 1 pinch of salt
Directions
- In a medium mixing-bowl, mix together all ingredientes to form a ball.
- Divide the dough in two or three, and gather each portion into a slightly flattened ball.
- Working with one ball of dough at a time, roll it out between two baking papers to a thickness of maximum 0,3 cm.
- Place an embossing mat (or crochet mat) on top of the dough, and using rolling pin, lightly roll over mat to imprint dough. Carefully remove mat.
- Freeze dough for 30 minutes, or place on the refrigerator for a couple of hours.
- Use a round cookie cutter to cut out cookies, and transfer them on a prepared baking sheet. Freeze for another 15 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350ºF and slip cookies into the oven to bake for 10 minutes, until just slightly golden at the edges. Transfer on a rack to cool completely, and keep in a tin box in a dry place
NOTES:
- If you do not have an embossing mat, or crochet mat, you might used an embossed glass, or a decorative rolling pin
- To keep from burning the bottom of your cookies or over baking, use a double pan
- Make chocolate cookies by substituting 50 g flour for 50 g cocoa powder
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I love your idea and your pictures are so beautiful!
Oh these are so gorgeous and girly! I wish I had an embossing mat…:)
Great decorating idea! They look so elegant… I’ll have to keep my eye out for crochet mats.
Love these cookies. I really like the technique.
I made some that are very similar but with a very different technique.
http://porkchoptuesday.wordpress.com/2012/10/19/stamped-cookies/
Two things: Your blog is awesome and I am following it from now on, and these cookies are so pretty! It’s such an awesome decoration idea, I’ll have to do this for christmas cookies this year.
I have that exact same mat it was the embossing for the fondant of my wedding cake, i love this idea!!
beautiful! thank you 🙂
Thank you! I am willing to see your embossed cookies! Please send me a pic if you prepare them, I would love to share them on the blog 🙂
The first thing i would make with this mixer is the dough i would need to make my moms strufela. It is llttie fried dough like balls that you put honey and holiday sprinkles on!! Its a tradition i have kept every holiday season since she passed away in 1994. This would so help me out i have wanted one of these mixers for about ummm ten years!!!
Magnifiques biscuits, bravo !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Really Amazing Idea…. also fabulous blog I do love ur creative concepts ….. But i need ur help please i tried it but the dough recipe was too smooth that i couldn’t do any embossing shape 🙁 what should i do?
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Can you tell me where to find a mat like this? It’s perfect for these cookies.
Great article.
Can you tell me where to get this embossing mat? I love the design!
Thanks for this awesome blog and ideas.
I want to make embossed cookies for our coming holiday, and I wanted a recipe that has no leavening agents, and this recipe worked perfect for me.
My concern is that I need to make a large amount of these cookies and I wanted a more convince recipe. Butter recipes are time consuming and needs a lot of care while working with. Any recommendations.?
Thanks again.