With this sweet recipe you get the cinnamon stars from heaven
Created: 11/28/2022, 10:00 am
By: Sandra Keck
These delicious cinnamon stars taste and smell like Christmas.
You can find the recipe here.
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The 1st Advent is over, so it's high time for Christmas baking
Cookie cutters, vanilla crescents or coconut macaroons - who doesn't love nibbling off a well-filled plate of cookies?
That increases the joy of Christmas immensely and tastes so good too!
We start our cookie theme week with a simple cinnamon star recipe.
You can read below where the baking custom before Christmas comes from.
That's how it's done:
You only need 5 ingredients:
3 egg whites
pinch of salt
250 g powdered sugar, sifted
1 packet of vanilla sugar
350 g ground almonds
1 tsp cinnamon
Besides that:
Ground almonds for rolling out
The preparation is so easy:
In a clean, grease-free bowl, beat the egg whites with a pinch of salt until stiff.
Gradually drizzle in the icing sugar and vanilla sugar and continue beating until the egg whites are firm.
Set aside 5 heaped tablespoons of whipped cream for the glaze.
Carefully fold the ground almonds and cinnamon into the remaining egg whites.
Cover and chill for 3-4 hours.
Dust a clean surface with ground almonds and roll out the cinnamon star dough about 1 cm thick.
Cut out stars and place on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
Brush the stars with the reserved egg whites.
Bake in a preheated oven at 120 °C for about 20 minutes until the stars are light brown and the underside is still a little soft.
Let cool completely and store in a cookie jar.
So delicious!
For many, the absolute favorite cookies at Christmas!
You can find the recipe for cinnamon stars here.
© Simply Tasty
Why do we bake Christmas cookies?
Every family has their own favorites and their recipes (usually passed on from generation to generation) for the cookies that are baked, decorated and eaten together every year before Christmas.
But where does this custom come from?
Unfortunately, this is not entirely clear, but there are various theories.
I like these two best:
In the
Middle Ages
, spices were not yet available to the general public and were correspondingly expensive.
Very few people could afford them, especially not to bake cookies.
However, in many
monasteries
,
cookies
were baked in preparation for Christmas and
to celebrate the birth of Christ
.
In order to make the poorer people happy too, the monks gave them their biscuits - so the delicacies were something very special in the run-up to Christmas.
According to another theory, the custom of baking cookies goes back to the
Celts
.
Shortly before the birth of Christ, the
winter solstice
(the longest night of the year) was celebrated from December 21st to 22nd.
This night was not only particularly long, but also dark and cold, and people were afraid that their homes would then be visited by evil spirits.
To appease these
spirits
,
offerings
made of dough (and mostly in animal form) were made.
A predecessor of Christmas cookies.
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And if you are still looking for a drink to go with your delicious Christmas cookies, here you go: This speculoos liqueur is so easy to make and you will love it.
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