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Baked with almond butter and warming festive spices these easy Christmas cookies are half dipped in chocolate for an extra special treat! Recipe on thecookandhim.com | #christmascookies #spicedcookies #veganchristmas #veganshortbread

Spiced Easy Christmas Cookies

Prep: 15 mins | Cook: 15 mins | Total: 30 mins | Quantity: 20 cookies

Ingredients

  • 3/4 cup (150g) dairy free butter
  • 1/2 cup (125g) almond butter
  • 1/2 cup (120g) caster sugar or coconut sugar
  • 2 + 1/4 cups (300g) plain flour
  • 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
  • 1 x 180g bar dark dairy free chocolate
  • sprinkles of choice

Instructions

  1. Preheat your oven to 170 Fan / 190 C / 375 F / Gas 5 and line 1-2 large trays with baking parchment or a silicon mat
  2. In a large bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer put the dairy free butter and almond butter. Beat together using a wooden spoon or the paddle attachment until very well blended
  3. Beat in the sugar
  4. Add the flour, cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice and either fold in with a spatula or continue to mix in with the paddle attachment
  5. When it’s all well mixed together, tip out onto a lightly floured work surface and knead just enough to form a dough
  6. Dust the work surface with a little more flour and roll the dough out to approximately ½ cm thick
  7. You can either cut the dough into circles with a 7 cm (2 ¾ inch) ring cutter or cut into bars with a sharp knife (or make a mix of both!)
  8. Put the cookies onto the prepared trays – they don’t spread so you can put them fairly close together. Keep re-rolling and cutting the dough until it's all used up
  9. Prick the cookies 2-3 times with a fork then bake for 12-15 minutes until only just firm - they will harden further as they cool so err on the side of slightly underdone
  10. Once the cookies have cooled, melt the chocolate in the microwave or over a bain-marie (a heatproof dish set over a pan of barely simmering water)
  11. You can either dip the cookies into the chocolate or use a pastry brush to brush the chocolate across ½ of the cookies. You can even just drizzle or pipe the chocolate!
  12. If you’re dipping, put the cookies back on the tray once you’ve done each one
  13. Before the chocolate sets, scatter your chosen sprinkles across the chocolate
  14. If you’re rushed and have space you can quickly set the chocolate in the fridge – this should only take around 10 minutes. Don’t leave the cookies in the fridge though as they will become very hard
  15. Alternately leave to set at ambient temperature then store in an airtight container

Recipe by The Cook & Him at https://thecookandhim.com/recipes/spiced-easy-christmas-cookies/