Christmas cookies with amazing icing

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Put the butter in a bowl, add sugar and a pinch of cardamom.

2. Step 2:

   

   Beat with a mixer.

3. Step 3:

   

   Add chicken egg.

4. Step 4:

   

   Whisk until smooth.

5. Step 5:

   

   Add the flour sifted through a sieve in parts, a pinch of salt, half a teaspoon of soda and mix thoroughly.

6. Step 6:

   

   Knead the resulting dough well.

7. Step 7:

   

   Put it in a bag and put it in the refrigerator for an hour.

8. Step 8:

   

   Take the dough out of the refrigerator and carefully knead it with your hands.

9. Step 9:

   

   Divide the resulting dough into two parts.

11. Step 10:

    

    Roll out the dough with a rolling pin into thin tortillas and make cookie blanks with molds.

12. Step 11:

    

    Pre-dip the molds in flour. Heat the oven to 180 degrees.

13. Step 12:

    

    We spread the blanks of our cookies on parchment in a baking sheet and put them in the oven for 10 minutes.

14. Step 13:

    

    To prepare the icing sugar, put one chicken protein, 200 gr. powdered sugar in a bowl, which we sift through a sieve.

15. Step 14:

    

    Add 0.5 tsp. l. starch, 1 tsp. l. lemon juice and beat well with a mixer. The resulting glaze is divided into two parts.

16. Step 15:

    

    Add a little water and mix the glaze to the consistency of thick sour cream, which we will use to outline our cookies.

17. Step 16:

    

    Add one drop of food coloring to the glaze and mix well and put it in a pastry bag.

18. Step 17:

    

    Circle the icing around the contour of the cookie.

19. Step 18:

    

    Add a little water to the second part of the glaze, which we will use for filling cookies, mix and make it a little thinner than the first. We put the glaze in a pastry bag and distribute it over the liver, making various stains with a toothpick.