20 years ago, when I moved out starting college my mom made me a recipe book with all her favorite Christmas cookie recipes. Each year I made a small batch of cookies with some friends but nothing very fancy. Baking was my mother’s passion and during Christmas time she supplied the whole family and close friends with plenty of cookies.
After she died of breast cancer 7 years ago, my dad, my brother and I started making our favorite cookies from her book. In combination we now mange to make almost the same variety she used to make every year.
Here’s what I made this year
In addition to that, my son, who’s currently living in Italy, sent a jar of homemade cantuccini.
Here are some pages from my mother’s book:
Stacked almond cookies
Ingredients
- 420 g flour
- 210 g sugar
- 250 g butter
- 2 small eggs
- 125 g finely ground almonds
- Strawberry, raspberry, or blackberry jam (depending on taste)
- Powdered sugar
Knead into a dough with a consistency similar to pie crust. Chill until firm and easy to roll out.
Roll out the dough and cut out shapes using cookie cutters of the same shape in three different sizes.
Bake in a convection oven at 160 degrees Celsius until golden brown.
Allow to cool.
Pipe jam on top of the larger two cookies a stack three different sized cookies on top of each other.
Allow to dry and generously dust with powdered sugar.
If anyone is interested in some of the recipes I’m happy to post translations.