I have just made some plain vanilla Christmas biscuits this morning, but I woudn’t mind trying a more really traditional Christmas biscuit. Does anybody have any family recipes…I woudn’t mind trying a biscuit recipe from another European country if anyone on this board didn’t grow up in the UK or has family elsewhere….(Kimmy I know you’re from Germany? Do you have any family biscuit recipes for Christmas?!) Something child-friendly would be great too….

Thanks for your help!

This has always been my recipe (before turning coeliac and not eating them *cry*)
http://www.chefkoch.de/rezepte/223931092646762/Muerbeteig-gelingt-immer.html

translation:

200 g   plain flour
1 tsp   baking powder
75 g         Butter (margarine ruins taste!!)
75 g         sugar
1 Pkt.    Vanilla sugar (don´t think they do this over here - use 1 tsp vanilla extract)
1           egg

knead everything into a dough, put in fridge for 30 min and roll out and cut out biscuits (easy LOL)
bake at 200C for about 10 min, let cool and decorate as you wish

THE BEST BEST BEST BESTEST biscuits.. CRY!

this one is gorgeous:
http://www.tasty-german-recipe.com/german-christmas-cookie.html

cinnamon stars:
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/German-Cinnamon-Stars-Zimtsterne-103995

here´s another great page:
http://www.tasty-german-recipe.com/german-cookie-recipes.html

Kimmy050983 - 14 December 2011 01:55 PM

This has always been my recipe (before turning coeliac and not eating them *cry*)
http://www.chefkoch.de/rezepte/223931092646762/Muerbeteig-gelingt-immer.html

translation:

200 g   plain flour
1 tsp   baking powder
75 g         Butter (margarine ruins taste!!)
75 g         sugar
1 Pkt.    Vanilla sugar (don´t think they do this over here - use 1 tsp vanilla extract)
1           egg

knead everything into a dough, put in fridge for 30 min and roll out and cut out biscuits (easy LOL)
bake at 200C for about 10 min, let cool and decorate as you wish

THE BEST BEST BEST BESTEST biscuits.. CRY!

this one is gorgeous:
http://www.tasty-german-recipe.com/german-christmas-cookie.html

cinnamon stars:
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/German-Cinnamon-Stars-Zimtsterne-103995

here´s another great page:
http://www.tasty-german-recipe.com/german-cookie-recipes.html

I knew I could rely on you Kimmy, thank you, thank you, thank you! Can’t wait to try them!
Can’t wait to look at the other recipes too!

mama - 14 December 2011 02:03 PM

Kimmy050983 - 14 December 2011 01:55 PM

This has always been my recipe (before turning coeliac and not eating them *cry*)
http://www.chefkoch.de/rezepte/223931092646762/Muerbeteig-gelingt-immer.html

translation:

200 g   plain flour
1 tsp   baking powder
75 g         Butter (margarine ruins taste!!)
75 g         sugar
1 Pkt.    Vanilla sugar (don´t think they do this over here - use 1 tsp vanilla extract)
1           egg

knead everything into a dough, put in fridge for 30 min and roll out and cut out biscuits (easy LOL)
bake at 200C for about 10 min, let cool and decorate as you wish

THE BEST BEST BEST BESTEST biscuits.. CRY!

this one is gorgeous:
http://www.tasty-german-recipe.com/german-christmas-cookie.html

cinnamon stars:
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/German-Cinnamon-Stars-Zimtsterne-103995

here´s another great page:
http://www.tasty-german-recipe.com/german-cookie-recipes.html

I knew I could rely on you Kimmy, thank you, thank you, thank you! Can’t wait to try them!
Can’t wait to look at the other recipes too!

You´re welcome - just eat one for me please !! i do miss those (I will have to try and invent these grain free LOL)

Just to say - vanilla sugar is the easiest thing in the world to make - just add a chopped up (about an inch long) vanilla pod to a jar of sugar and leave for a few days. Use in equal quantities to ordinary sugar when a recipe calls for vanilla extract. I tend to use the seeds first, and just add the scraped out pods to my sugar - and you can use them over and over - I have some which must be a couple of years old, but are still giving great flavour to the sugar.

Makes a great cheap present too, if you put it in a nice jar with a bit of ribbon!

Angie