BEST Authentic German Christmas Cookies with Jam Recipe (Hildabrötchen Rezept)

butter

🥗Healthier: coconut oil

💰Cheaper: margarine

Coconut oil reduces saturated fat while still providing richness.

fruit jam

🥗Healthier: fruit preserves

💰Cheaper: homemade jam

Fruit preserves often have less sugar and can be made easily at home.

Pour all-purpose flour, sugar and vanilla sugar on your working top.

Make a hole in the middle of the dry ingredients. Put an egg and butter into the hole.

Use a knife and gently chop the ingredients to mix them. This step may take you some time.

Once you get a dough, wrap the dough in cling wrap and let it rest in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

After the German Christmas cookies dough has rested, cut a small piece of the dough and wrap the rest of the dough to prevent it from drying. It is easier to work with small pieces of dough.

Spread some flour on your working top and over your rolling pin. Roll your dough until it is about 0.5 mm thick. Due to the high butter content, use as much flour as you need to prevent the dough from sticking. Preheat the oven to 190 °C.

Use a single shot glass (roughly 4 cm diameter) and cut the dough into tiny circles. Mix the rest of the dough to the second piece of the German Christmas cookies dough. Repeat process until you have little to no dough left.

Place a parchment paper on top of the baking tray and place the cookies onto the tray. Space out the cookies evenly, so that they do not stick to each other during baking. Gently use a fork to poke a few holes into the cookies. Bake Christmas cookies dough for around 8-10 minutes until they turn slightly brown on the bottom of the cookies. Depending on the size of your oven and tray, you may need to bake two batches of cookies.

While the German Christmas cookies are baking, put icing sugar, water and lemon juice into a separate small bowl. Mix the ingredients thoroughly with a spoon to form a white icing.

Once the cookies finish baking, let the German Christmas cookies cool down for 1-2 minutes. While it is still hot, quickly spread some raspberry jam to one side of the cookie. Place an empty cookie on top of the cookie with jam, so that you will get a little “sandwich”. Be careful that the cookies are still hot.

Quickly spread some white icing onto of the “sandwich” and place it on a cooling rack. Repeat until you have no cookies left.

Let the German Christmas Cookies with jam cool down completely before storing. In an airtight container, you can keep the cookies for more than a month in a cool, dry place. Improper storage will result in the cookies drying out and turning hard. Enjoy your cookies or send someone a gift!

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