Holiday Cookies: One Dough, Three Holiday Cookies

Name: Holiday Cookies: One Dough, Three Holiday Cookies
Prep time: 2 h 37 min
Cook time: 2 h 37 min
Total time: 2 h 37 min
Yield: 24
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 46 grams sliced almonds, finely chopped in a blender to a coarse flour consistency; 46 grams sliced almonds, for topping; 1 teaspoons baking powder; 6 Tbsps cocoa powder; 1 large egg; 250 grams all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoons ground cloves; 24 teaspoons chunky marmalade; 1 orange, zested; 1 teaspoons salt; 300 grams sugar; 24 servings Coarse sugar, for sugar cookies only; 227 grams sticks unsalted butter, softened; 1 teaspoons vanilla extract; 59 grams chopped walnuts

The recipe Holiday Cookies: One Dough, Three Holiday Cookies can be made in roughly 2 hours and 37 minutes. This recipe serves 24. One portion of this dish contains around 3g of protein, 12g of fat, and a total of 284 calories. Only a few people really liked this dessert. If you have salt, almonds, coarse sugar, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. Users who liked this recipe also liked Mexican Three Cheese Dip, Three Berry Jam, and Three Meat Stromboli.

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Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

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Oven

Whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt, and cloves in a small bowl. Beat the butter and sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer at medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes in a standing mixer (preferably fitted with paddle attachment) or 6 minutes with a handheld beater. Beat in the egg and vanilla. Reduce speed to low, then add flour mixture and mix until just combined.

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Baking Powder

Vanilla

Butter

Clove

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Salt

Egg

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Hand Mixer

Blender

Whisk

Bowl

Form dough into a 12-inch log (2 inches in diameter) on a sheet of plastic wrap and roll up in the plastic wrap. Chill dough in the refrigerator for 1 hour.

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Dough

Roll

Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

Cut 1/2-inch thick slices from the log with a sharp knife and arrange on 2 ungreased large baking sheets, about 1-inch apart.

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Baking Sheet

Knife

For basic sugar cookies, sprinkle generously with coarse sugar and bake for 15 minutes or until lightly browned and slightly puffed.

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Sugar Cookies

Coarse Sugar

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Oven

Cool on baking sheets for 3 minutes, then transfer with a metal spatula to racks to cool completely.

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Baking Sheet

Spatula

Make basic dough according to recipe above, but adding the cocoa powder to the flour mixture and folding in the nuts just after mixing the batter.

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Cocoa Powder

Dough

All Purpose Flour

Nuts

Bake for 15 minutes and then cool on sheets for 3 minutes before transferring to racks to cool completely.

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Oven

Make basic dough according to recipe above, but adding both the orange zest and ground almonds when you add the flour mixture.

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Almond Meal

Orange Zest

Dough

All Purpose Flour

When cookies are formed, make a slight depression in the middle and fill each with about 1 teaspoon marmalade. Top each with a good pinch of sliced almonds.

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Sliced Almonds