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Christmas cookies in a cookie box

Slice & Bake! 3 Christmas Cookies (Santa, Santa boots & Wreath)

Make 3 delightful slice-and-bake Christmas cookies; Santa, wreaths, and Santa boots, all from one batch of the recipe.
Author ayacaliva
Total Time 4 hours
Course Cookie
Servings 50 cookies

Equipment

  • Stand mixer with a pedal Or a bowl with a whisk and spatula
  • Whisk to mix flours
  • Spatula
  • Plastic wrap to wrap the dough to store

Ingredients

Cookie Dough

  • 8 oz Butter (soft) 2 US sticks
  • 5.6 oz Powdered sugar 1 ⅓ US cups
  • ¼ teaspoon Salt
  • 1 egg Whole egg
  • 1 yolk Egg yolk Save the egg white for egg wash.
  • 12.3 oz Cake flour 3 US cups
  • 2.5 oz Almond flour ¾ US cup

Decorations

  • Food colorings Your choice!
  • Sprinkles Your choice!
  • Egg white Mix the same amount of egg white and water to make the egg wash.

Instructions
 

  • Make 1 batch of my icebox cookie dough.
    8 oz Butter (soft), 5.6 oz Powdered sugar, ¼ teaspoon Salt, 1 egg Whole egg, 1 yolk Egg yolk, 12.3 oz Cake flour, 2.5 oz Almond flour
    cookie dough in a mixer

Divide and color the dough.

  • Take about 300 g | 10.5 oz from it to make all the parts. (Save the rest to cover the parts later.)
    Divide it by 3 and color each:
    * ⅓: red (Santa hat and boots)
    * A little less than ⅓: green (Wreath)
    * A little more than ⅓: Color about ⅓ of it with orange (Santa face) and use the rest for plain parts. (a center of the wreath and Santa beard)
    Food colorings
    dividing icebox cookie dough for each color

Shape the dough.

  • Shaping Wreath:
    1. Make a pole. (Diameter: 1.5 cm | 0.6 ") Freeze. Curve it with a star cookie cutter to make a ruffle pattern. 
    2. Cover it with the green dough evenly. Freeze. Curve it with a cookie cutter again.
    3. Cover it with plain dough evenly. Freeze.
    curving off the surface of green cookie dough with a star cookie cutter
  • Shaping Santa Boots:
    1. Make a rectangle shape. (Width: 1.5 cm | 0.6 ", Height: 2.5 cm | 1 ") with red dough. Freeze.
    2. Cut the sides with a knife. Use the extra dough to complete the feet shape. Chill it again.
    3. Cover it with plain dough evenly. Freeze.
    making a shape of Santa boots with cookie dough
  • Shaping Santa:
    1. Make a semicylinder. (Width: 2.5 cm | 1 ", Height: 1 cm | 0.4 ") Freeze. 
    2. Attach plain dough on top of it as his beard. (Mix in white sprinkles if you like.) Chill it again.
    3. Make a hat part. (Width: 2.5 cm | 1 ", Height: 1.3 cm | 0.5 ") Freeze.
    4. Attach the face and hat parts with extra dough and egg wash. Chill.
    5. Cover it with pale green dough evenly. Freeze.
    Egg white
    Attaching the Santa head and Santa hat cookie dough

Make decoration parts.

  • Make decoration parts with extra dough:
    * Tiny red balls as plant fruits and a Santa nose.
    * Roll the extra plain dough and attach white sprinkles. Chill it. Cut it for the Santa boots, hat, and beards.
    cutting thin plain dough with sprinkles
  • Apply a thin layer of egg wash and attach sprinkles to the logs. 
    * The diameter of the logs: About 4cm | 1.6"
    * The length of the logs: About 15cm | 5.9"
    Egg white, Sprinkles
    attaching sprinkles around a cookie dough log

Slice the log.

  • Slice all the logs with about 5mm intervals.
    slicing a cookie dough log

Finish decorating.

  • * Wreath: Attach tiny red balls and sprinkles
    * Santa boots: Attach the dough for fluffs, tiny red balls, and sprinkles as the leaf.
    * Santa: Attach the dough with white sprinkles (hat and beard), white sprinkles (his browse and pom-pom of his hat), red balls (his nose), and black coloring (his eyes). 
    Sprinkles
    decorated sliced wreath cookie dough

Bake!

  • Freeze the cookies until right before you bake.
    1. First, bake at 350 F | 176 C (Preheated) for about 7 mins.
    2. Next, turn the temperature down to 330 F | 165 C and bake for another 7 mins or more until the edge is slightly toasted.
    wreath cookies in the oven right before they are done

Video

Notes

How to store them:

Store them in an air-tight container for up to 4 days at room temperature or a few weeks in a fridge. But eat them sooner for the best taste.
Adding a silica gel to the container is a great option if you want your cookies to stay crispy.
 
Chill the dough completely until right before baking. By doing that, they don't spread too much in the oven. I like to freeze them to maximize the result!

Nutrition

Calories: 73kcal | Carbohydrates: 9g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 5g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Cholesterol: 28mg | Sodium: 9mg | Potassium: 15mg | Fiber: 0.3g | Sugar: 0.1g | Vitamin A: 140IU | Vitamin C: 0.001mg | Calcium: 8mg | Iron: 0.2mg
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