Ingredients:
3/4 cup sugar 1 pinch salt 3/4 cup butter; softened
4 tsp orange juice 2 tblsp milk 3/4 cup currants 3 egg yolks 4 cup
all-purpose flour easter cookie glaze food color 2 tblsp powderedn
sugar 1 egg white lightly beaten
How to make easter cookies:
- start with allowing the oven heat to 350 f (175 c).
- meanwhile you should grease several baking sheets with butter.
- then take a large bowl and beat butter with sugar into it until
creamy.
- a little later also beat in some more ingredients like egg yolks,
orange juice and milk. also add currants.
- after that sift flour and salt into bowl and mix in so that it
forms fairly stiff dough.
- you should knead it lightly on a floured surface until it is smooth.
- and then roll out to 1/8-inch thickness.
- with the help of a round 2-1/2-inch-fluted cookie cutter, cut
out circular shapes from dough and place them on greased baking
sheets.
- the trimmings would remain. knead and roll out the trimmings and
cut out more same circular shapes out of the dough until it is used
up and no trimmings are left.
- you should bake the cookies for 10 minutes and then remove from
the oven.
- now it is time to brush the baked cookies with egg white mixture
and sprinkle them lightly with the powdered sugar.
- once again return to oven for about 5 minutes longer or until
the cookies are light brown in color.
- after 5 min remove them from baking sheets to wire racks and allow
it to cool.
- you should always store it in an airtight container.
- easter cookie glaze
- for the cookie glaze, mix together egg and powdered sugar into
a bowl.
- and later also add a few drops of food coloring, if desired