Meat grinder machine butter Christmas cookies!
To make butter Christmas cookies using a meat grinder. It is a old recipe, than my grandma used to make. Thanks to the meat grinder, the whole process is pretty fast, even faster if you have an electric meat grinder.
Ingredients:
500 grams (1.1 pound) of all purpose white flour (type 550)
200 grams (7 oz) of butter, unsalted
130 grams (4 and 1/2 oz) of white sugar
20 grams (0.7 oz) of vanilla sugar
12 grams (0.43 oz) of baking powder
2 medium sized eggs
zest of one lemon (if possible bio)
cacao powder (few spoons) to flavour and color the dough
If you want to scale the recipe, for every 250 grams of flour it takes one egg, and the half of all other ingredients.
1 Step: Mix all dry ingredients: flour, sugar, vanilla sugar, baking powder and pinch of salt.
2 Step: Scramble eggs and add to the dry ingredients
3 Step: Add room temperature butter
4 Step: Zest the lemon with grinder and add zest to mixture.
5 Step: Using hand mixer blend all together, and then by hand finish the dough. It should be uniformed and one big mass. It takes about 10-15 minutes all together
6 Step: Separate about half of the dough, add cacao powder and mix.
7 Step: Let the dough chill in fridge 30-60 minutes
8 Step: Take the dough our of the fridge and pre heat the oven to 200 C or 400 F
9 Step: Prepare the baking sheet - but baking paper on the baking sheet.
10 Step: Put the dough in the meat grinder machine, spin the handle and wait for the butter cookies to come out. The length should be up to 10 centimetres or 4 inches.
11 Step: When the baking sheet is full, put it into pre heated oven.
12 Step: Baking time is 10-12 minutes depending on the oven.
13 Step: Cookies are done when then have light golden color on the bottom and are almost white.
14 Step: Remove the cookies immediately from hot baking sheet. Otherwise the carry over heat will continue to bake the cookies and they can over-bake.
Eat and enjoy!
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