CHRISTMAS COOKIES RECIPES

 

Here's an easy recipe to make Christmas cookies. Kids will love these cookies and they can even help you make them. Practise your English while you cook!

We thank Susy (from Buenos Aires, Argentina) for sending us this recipe.

 

CHRISTMAS COOKIES

You will need:

• 1 cup butter (at room temperature)

• 2 1/4 cups sifted flour

• 1 cup sugar

• 1 egg

• 1/2 teaspoon salt

• 2 teaspoons vanilla

Follow these easy steps:

1. Beat the butter and sugar in a bowl with the electric mixer for five minutes, until it becomes fluffy.

2. Add the egg, the salt and the vanilla. Mix again.

3. Add the flour and keep mixing until it becomes a stiff dough.

4. Put the dough in plastic wrap and leave it in the fridge for two hours.

5. Roll the dough on a floured surface and cut into different shapes using cookie cutters.

6. Place the cookies on a baking tray and bake them at maximum temperature until they become brown on the edges, usually fifteen minutes.

7. Wait until they are cold, and if you like, you can decorate them with coloured icing.

8. You can also make a hole on the cookies before baking them, pass a short piece of wool through it and hang them from the Christmas tree!

 

Vocabulary

recipe - receta de cocina. La receta que hace el médico se llama prescription.

room temperature - temperatura ambiente

sifted flour - harina tamizada. El verbo to sift es tamizar.

teaspoon - cucharadita

to beat - batir

fluffy - aireada, liviana

stiff - sólida

dough - masa

plastic wrap - plástico transparente

to leave - dejar

floured - con harina

shapes - formas

to place - ubicar

baking tray - bandeja para hornear

to bakehornear, -  cocinar en el horno

edges - bordes

icingglacé - , azúcar impalpable con agua

wool - lana

to hang - colgar

 

 

Here's a recipe to make flapjacks. This recipe is very popular in Britain and North America. It's delicious and easy to make!

We thank Vicky Oliva Navarro (from Barcelona, Spain) for sending us this recipe.

 

FLAPJACKS

You will need:

• 225g butter

• 85g sugar

• 2 tablespoons honey

• 1/4 teaspoon salt

• 340g porridge oats

• 115g raisins (optional)

Follow these easy steps:

1. Melt the butter, sugar and honey in a saucepan. Turn off the heat.

2. Add the porridge oats, the salt and the raisins. Mix well.

3. Put the mixture into an oven dish. Flatten with a spoon. Bake at 180ºC for 20 to 30 minutes.

4. Cut the flapjacks into rectangles.

Eat after 30 minutes. And that's all!

 

flapjack - Es el nombre de una galleta hecha de avena, mantequilla y miel, tal como se describe en esta receta

tablespoon - cucharada (sopera)

porridge oats - avena procesada

raisins - pasas de uva

to melt - derretir

sauce - pan cacerola

oven dish - bandeja para horno

to flat - tenalisar