Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, brandied butter wreath cookies * christmas *. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Brandied Butter Wreath Cookies * christmas * is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Brandied Butter Wreath Cookies * christmas * is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook brandied butter wreath cookies * christmas * using 6 ingredients and 19 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Brandied Butter Wreath Cookies * christmas *:
- Take 1 cup soft butter or margarine
- Make ready 2 cup flour
- Take 2/3 cup powdered sugar, sifted
- Make ready 2 tbsp brandy (any flavor u would like)
- Make ready 1 flour as needed (see direction #2)
- Take 1 various xmas sprinkles, see direction #14
Steps to make Brandied Butter Wreath Cookies * christmas *:
- mix all ingredients together to form a workable dough.
- if to wet add flour as needed until it stretches easily and molds well.
- refridgerate dough for an hour.
- preheat oven to 350
- this will not stick to your countertop or hands as it is greasy. so no additional flour is needed on surface in order to roll this out.
- grab a small ball of dough and gently with 2 hands roll the dough into long thin logs about the size of a #2 pencil in width and 12 inches long.
- cut the 12 inch long in half.
- pinch together one side.
- twist the rolls around each other.
- shape the twist into a circle and pinch all ends together. this form your wreath..
- place onto parchment lined cookie sheet or spray with baking spray.
- repeat until u have no dough left.
- for the decorations…
- u can use any xmas type sprinkles, green & red sugar crystals, red dots, green sprinkles, red sprinkles, nonparalels, small shapes.. this section u will see all the different designs I made with the sprinkles. click on pic to see directions for that design.
- once they are all decorated place baking shhet full of decorated cookies onto middle/upper oven rack and bake for 10 min. or until bottoms of cookies are golden and cookies have "firmed up"
- cool on wire rack.
- serve! :)
- enjoy!
- just to let u know.. these cookies are time consuming because of the rolling, twisting and decorating. but they are so cute and so pretty and really decorate up a table so it well worth it.. oh and the flavor.. is awesome!
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So you see, you don’t need to consume all that junk food when you wish to feel better! Test out these suggestions instead!
