Traditional Festive Cookies
Do you remember the heady scent of cinnamon, ginger and mixed spice when Christmas cookies were baking? Can you still see the kitchen counter with eggs and butter, flour and little jars of essence? Perhaps you still feel the heat of the kitchen with a oven working over time preparing for a summer Christmas? The rhythm of trays going in and out of the oven, hovering a while on their way out for the cookies to set and then the careful palate knife action of moving the cookies from tray to cooling rack. Only later comes the creative part - decorating or dusting with icing before neatly and carefully packing sugary stacks ready for holiday enjoyment.
Chef Christiaan shares a few of his favourite, traditional Christmas and holiday bakes. Baking Christmas cookies does mean spending some time in front of the oven, but it can be a wonderful family activity and other than having a few treats to enjoy over the holidays, these biscuits also make for great gifts.
Wrap them in pretty paper or pack them into a jar and add a festive ribbon and holiday wishes. Everyone will appreciate the gesture of such a personal gift.
Do you get the whole cookies and milk thing? We've never really understood that culture, but we do understand the lovely combination of red wine and choc chip cookies or spicy biscuits with an off-dry white... See our suggested wine pairings with the recipes!
Do you remember the heady scent of cinnamon, ginger and mixed spice when Christmas cookies were baking? Can you still see the kitchen counter with eggs and butter, flour and little jars of essence? Perhaps you still feel the heat of the kitchen with a oven working over time preparing for a summer Christmas? The rhythm of trays going in and out of the oven, hovering a while on their way out for the cookies to set and then the careful palate knife action of moving the cookies from tray to cooling rack. Only later comes the creative part - decorating or dusting with icing before neatly and carefully packing sugary stacks ready for holiday enjoyment.
Chef Christiaan shares a few of his favourite, traditional Christmas and holiday bakes. Baking Christmas cookies does mean spending some time in front of the oven, but it can be a wonderful family activity and other than having a few treats to enjoy over the holidays, these biscuits also make for great gifts.
Wrap them in pretty paper or pack them into a jar and add a festive ribbon and holiday wishes. Everyone will appreciate the gesture of such a personal gift.
Do you get the whole cookies and milk thing? We've never really understood that culture, but we do understand the lovely combination of red wine and choc chip cookies or spicy biscuits with an off-dry white... See our suggested wine pairings with the recipes!
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