We’re in the home stretch of the holiday season, and soon we’ll be wrapping and unwrapping gifts, spending time with close friends and family, and, best of all, sharing beautiful foods we create together. At Abt, Chef Susan from BlueStar was ready to craft her favorite Christmas cookie recipe in our BlueStar kitchen. But she had a hard time choosing just one, so we got to try out both her Christmas baubles and pinwheels. These colorful bites are a delicious treat to set out for Santa, but the best part will be baking them with the family. Watch the video below our Christmas cookie recipe to learn more. And if there are other foods you’d love to see from Susan (especially if you have a BlueStar oven), comment on this post to give us more ideas!
Dissolve yeast in warm water.
Cream together butter and sugar and beat until light and fluffy.
Beat in egg until fully combined.
Add dissolved yeast.
Gradually add flour
Chill dough for ease of handling.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
Using a 1-inch cookie scoop, scoop and shape into balls.
Dip sides into colored sugar or your choice of decorations.
Place on buttered baking sheet.
Bake in preheated oven for 10-12 minutes or until lightly browned.
Cream butter and add sugars gradually. Add egg and beat until light.
Add vanilla
Gradually add sifted flour.
Divide into 4 portions in separate bowls.
One at a time, put one bowl's dough into the mixer. Add green to one and mix until desired color is reached. Put dough back into its separate bowl and rinse coloring out of mixing bowl. Dry the mixing bowl and continue with the next. You will create in total one green, one red, one yellow and one orange as a mix with red and yellow.
Start with one color, grab about ¼ cup of dough and put it between 2 sheets of waxed paper. Roll until thin and wide about 14x11 and ¼” thick. Take top piece of waxed paper off to be reused and set the rolled color to the side.
You will repeat that with two more colors. Once you have three layers of colored dough rolled out, you will stack them. Take one color as the
base, the next color will be flipped on top and 3rd one on top of that. They should all be around the same size. If not, you can trim them and reuse that extra dough.
Refrigerate until firm or overnight.
Preheat oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit.
Slice dough into 1/4" slices and put on sheet tray.
Bake for 15 minutes, then shut off oven, crack door and let stay in oven for 10 minutes. Enjoy!
Ingredients
Directions
Dissolve yeast in warm water.
Cream together butter and sugar and beat until light and fluffy.
Beat in egg until fully combined.
Add dissolved yeast.
Gradually add flour
Chill dough for ease of handling.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
Using a 1-inch cookie scoop, scoop and shape into balls.
Dip sides into colored sugar or your choice of decorations.
Place on buttered baking sheet.
Bake in preheated oven for 10-12 minutes or until lightly browned.
Cream butter and add sugars gradually. Add egg and beat until light.
Add vanilla
Gradually add sifted flour.
Divide into 4 portions in separate bowls.
One at a time, put one bowl's dough into the mixer. Add green to one and mix until desired color is reached. Put dough back into its separate bowl and rinse coloring out of mixing bowl. Dry the mixing bowl and continue with the next. You will create in total one green, one red, one yellow and one orange as a mix with red and yellow.
Start with one color, grab about ¼ cup of dough and put it between 2 sheets of waxed paper. Roll until thin and wide about 14x11 and ¼” thick. Take top piece of waxed paper off to be reused and set the rolled color to the side.
You will repeat that with two more colors. Once you have three layers of colored dough rolled out, you will stack them. Take one color as the
base, the next color will be flipped on top and 3rd one on top of that. They should all be around the same size. If not, you can trim them and reuse that extra dough.
Refrigerate until firm or overnight.
Preheat oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit.
Slice dough into 1/4" slices and put on sheet tray.
Bake for 15 minutes, then shut off oven, crack door and let stay in oven for 10 minutes. Enjoy!
1 Comment
CG
December 25, 2022 at 5:53 pmI believe the reason one has to crack the door open for the cookies for 10 minutes is because it helps them to cool slowly in the oven with less chance of cracking/breaking apart
when they are removed from the oven and the cookie sheet.
If this is an older recipe it could have been a problem with older model ovens. I would try a small batch without the” crack the door open” step and see if it still applies to modern ovens.