When the first Sunday of Advent is around the corner, you know it's time for the great Christmas bake off and everything that goes with it. Christmas baking with children is especially important. When parents, grandparents or godparents bake Christmas biscuits with children, they create lasting memories that the offspring will look back on fondly for many years to come.
Too quickly, children grow up to be adults who take their own paths, yet many grown-up daughters and sons travel back to their parents year after year during Advent; there is no way they will miss the traditional Christmas baking. That is exactly why it’s a good idea to create an all-round cosy Christmas baking atmosphere for children of all ages, a place where family get-togethers can be enjoyed to the fullest.
| ➥ create contemplative ambience |
| ➥ Preparation is everything |
| ➥ Recipes classics |
| ➥ Decorate & embellish |
| ➥ Serve & Store |
Baking biscuits go together with Christmas just as much as contemplation and reflection fits in with the pre-Christmas period. You can create a reflective ambiance for Christmas baking in just a few simple steps by carefully matching your decorations with the Christmas season.
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If you ask when is a good time to start your Christmas baking, the answer is preferably in good time before the first Sunday of Advent. If you do that, your homemade delicacies will appear on your table right when you light the first candle.
Christmas baking begins with preparation. First, select the recipes and prepare a shopping list. You can select a variety of ingredients for decorating Christmas biscuits, especially if you are Christmas baking with children. Baking Christmas biscuits with kids is a creative process that can bring amazing creations. Letting the youngest Christmas bakers decorate biscuits according to their own ideas, which they can later present to the whole family during Advent and at Christmas, creates very special moments with your loved ones.
The right recipes guarantee that the baking goes smoothly and the biscuits taste delicious. You can cut out the Christmas biscuits or squeeze them out of pastry bags like shortbread biscuits. The recipes below give you a few ideas for Christmas baking, success guaranteed. These are real classics.
Depending on the thickness and consistency of the dough, it usually takes between 8 and 10 minutes for the cookies to bake at 180 degrees Celsius with top heat and bottom heat. If your oven is a convection oven only (with circulating air), the biscuits will turn out a bit more crispy.
The dough for these butter biscuits is quick and easy. You only need three ingredients:
Thinly roll out the dough; you can cut out about 40 biscuits from this batch. You can vary the basic recipe with other ingredients according to your own taste, like vanilla, cinnamon, lemon or nuts. After they cool, creatively decorate the Christmas biscuits with sprinkles, pearls or sugar icing.
These moist cinnamon stars are just as easy to make as butter biscuits. You need these ingredients for around 60 biscuits:
Make the biscuit glaze from 125 grams of powdered sugar and an egg white. It’s important to cool the dough well before rolling it out so that it does not stick to the rolling pin. If the dough is still sticky, add some more almonds or sprinkle ground almonds on the rolling surface.
This is a really quick recipe - you stir together the ingredients and quickly bake the biscuits. While the children are still decorating the cut-out Christmas biscuits, you can make a tray of shortbread biscuits in no time at all – and you can also make it without the marzipan, of course. If you pass on the marzipan, increase the proportion of powdered sugar and butter. You need these ingredients for 40 biscuits:
You can decorate these Christmas cookies with a dark chocolate coating. Dip the cooled biscuits into the dissolved chocolate and then sprinkle it with chopped nuts. Alternatively, dip a fork into the liquid coating and swirl it over the shortbread. This will give you thin chocolate strips.
When Christmas biscuits are creatively decorated, simple biscuits become unique and beautiful pieces.
For children, there is no such thing as decorations that have too much colour or too much variety! They love to spruce up biscuits with chocolate sprinkles, sugar blossoms, toppings and icing or chopped nuts. Especially the youngest little bakers, who are not yet that skilled at using cookie cutters, can make a significant and very individual contribution to Christmas baking with their imaginative use of confectionery.
Of course, the lovingly decorated biscuits should also be presented, served and stored appropriately.
What could be better suited than a biscuit jar from the Winter Bakery Delight collection? The collection also has a cake stand, Christmas bowls in the shape of a star or Christmas tree, and other stylish porcelain for the Christmas season.
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