Advent Calendar Cookies For Very Patient Cooks

  1. In a food processor add the sifted flour, sugar, almond powder and lemon zest. Pulse 2 times. Add the butter cut up in small pieces and pulse 8 times until crumbly. Add the vanilla essence and the 2 eggs and pulse until it forms a ball.
  2. Put the dough between 2 parchment sheets, roll it out very thinly and chill for 30 minutes..
  3. Pre-heat the oven to 350u0b0F and line 3 baking sheets with parchment paper
  4. Remove dough from fridge and cut little cookies (or big ones, whatever you fancy) with different Christmas motifes. Transfer to the baking sheets.
  5. Beat lightly the egg yolk and brush the top of the cookies. Bake for 10 to 15 minutes until light brown.
  6. Meanwhile sift the icing sugar in a bowl. Lightly beat the egg white and add a little at a time to the sugar with a few drops of lemon juice until you have a thick paste.
  7. Divide this paste in several bowls (depends how many colours you want to make) and add 1 or 2 drops of food colouring in each bowl to get different colours. If you prefer make just one colour and don't divide the sugar cream. Please remember that a drop of natural food colouring is very strong so go easy on the food colouring if you want pastel colours.
  8. Brush the cooked cookies with the icing sugar mixture and decorate with edible sparkles or edible Christmas decorations.
  9. Note: Sorry, no photo as we made the advent calenders at the end of November and I didn't think about taking pictures, but I promise you they look really cute and the biscuits are very nice.
  10. Note 2 - You can also make them bigger in size and serve them on a pretty plate at Christmas.

cookies, flour, powdered almonds, butter, sugar, eggs, lemon zest, vanilla essence, decoration, egg, icing sugar, lemon juice freshly squeezed, natural food colouring, sparkles

Taken from food52.com/recipes/2283-advent-calendar-cookies-for-very-patient-cooks (may not work)

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