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Secret Santa Christmas Cookies

Course Dessert, Snack
Cuisine American
Keyword biscuit, Chocolate, cookie, cranberry, pistachio
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 14 minutes
Total Time 34 minutes
Servings 24 cookies

Ingredients

  • 225 grams softened butter
  • 200 grams golden caster sugar
  • 100 grams brown sugar
  • 1 egg
  • Zest from one orange
  • Juice from one orange
  • 25 grams chopped dried cranberries
  • 50 grams chopped dark chocolate
  • 50 grams chopped white chocolate
  • 50 grams chopped milk chocolate
  • 25 grams chopped pistachios
  • 300 grams plain flour
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • Icing sugar and water mix

Instructions

  1. Get all of the ingredients measured and prepared.

  2. Start making the cookie dough by blending the butter and sugars. Once mixed also blend in the egg.

  3. Now, mix the flour, baking powder, and salt together and blend into the butter and sugar mix. This will result in the base cookie dough.

  4. Next, split the cookie dough into 4 equal portions and add the fillings. For the first two just add the white and milk chocolate respectively and mix in. For the third and fourth add to both a teaspoon of orange zest and a dessert spoon of orange juice. Finally, add the dark chocolate to one bowl and the pistachio and cranberries to the final bowl. Mix all ingredients thoroughly.

  5. Now, take each cookie mix and split it into 6 even cookies. With wet hands roll each cookie into a ball and place on a baking tray with at least 5 cm space around each ball.

  6. Bake the cookies in a pre-heated oven at 200C / 180C for 12-14 minutes or until the edges of the cookies start to turn brown.

  7. Once baked remove from the oven and leave to cool on a wire cooling rack. Finish the cookies by drizzling icing over each one. Yum!