Anja's moody Christmas cookies
Karoline tends to get a little bit moody at night, especially if we are out of marzipan. So just because it’s Christmas I decided to cheer her up, and make some special Christmas cookies with the ingredients I had available.
Karoline is afraid of both sugar and butter, so it will have to remain a secret how little I used. If you decide you want to try to make these delicious cookies, you should not use this recipe, but rather make up your own or find one on the big O net.
Ingredients:
X kg butter
X kg sugar
2 eggs
280 gram flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. vanilla sugar
Chopped nuts
Cinnamon
Place all the ingredients in front of you, and make sure you have them all. I once forgot the flour and it was all just a big mess. I do not like to mess up my kitchen.
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Begin with sugar and butter, just mix it until it is all a white Christmas in there. If you feel like making it more Christmassy, you could add a reindeer to the mix.
I used one of my mom’s old mixers, which she gave me when I moved to Hønefoss. Now I get why she gave it to me, it stops every two seconds and all the butter gets stuck. It did not help that I forgot that the butter should have room temperature, so I had to stand for fifteen minutes trying to get all the butter loose and into the bowl again.
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Make sure everything stays in place.
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I think very fast when I am in the kitchen, so I placed the bowl inside the oven for one minute, and it all got easier.
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Add the eggs, one egg at a time.
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Make sure everything stays in place. Oops.
Add some white powder.
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Make sure you do not drop it into the bowl when you take the picture, the white powder should be mixed together with the flour.
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Do NOT forget WHICH of the powders you accidentally dropped into the bowl.
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Add the flour.
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Make sure it looks like animals. The top on the left is a dog, the top on the left is a seal.
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Add cinnamon. Do:
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Don’t:
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Now it should look a little something like this:
Here comes the hardest part:
NUTS!!
Chopchopchop until your enemy drop
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Chop an hour or two, let me see what you can do!!
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Make sure your hand is on top of the knife
There will be men over board messing up the kitchen.
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Do not worry if the pieces look chubby, size does not matter when you cook. They will blend in eventually.
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Cinnamon and sugar bomb ready to explode.
Remove the paper you used the last time you did some doing.
Add new paper and adjust
Roll, roll, roll your boat,
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And dip.
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Repeat.
They only get bigger and bigger. That is not what matters, what matters is that YOU did it.
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Finito!!
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Anja’s "Christmess" cookies
Happy holidays!
Camilla,
Matteus,
Are,
Tor,
Karoline,
Ulf,
Tim,
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