Christmas Essentials: Christmas cookies!

What would Christmas be without homemade Christmas cookies?! In Germany there is a huge variety of Christmas cookies, the bakers usually start baking the goodies shortly after Thanksgiving. Here is one very simple recipe for traditional German “Butterplaetzchen“: “Butterplaetzchen” (yields approx. 80 cookies) · 250g (approx. 9oz) all purpose flour · 325g (approx. 11.5oz) confectioner’s sugar · 1 pinch of salt · lemon peel of 1/2 lemon · 1 egg · 120g (approx. 4.3oz) cold butter Heap flour with confectioner’s . . .