CHRISTMAS COOKIES RECIPES

Here's an easy recipe to make Christmas cookies. Kids will love these cookies
and they can even help you make them. Practise your English while you cook!

We thank Susy (from Buenos Aires, Argentina) for sending us this

recipe.

CHRISTMAS COOKIES

You will need:

 1 cup butter (at room temperature)

 2 1/4 cups sifted flour
 1 cup sugar
 1 egg
 1/2 teaspoon salt
 2 teaspoons vanilla

Follow these easy steps:

1. Beat the butter and sugar in a bowl with the electric mixer for five minutes, until it becomes
fluffy.

2. Add the egg, the salt and the vanilla. Mix again.

3. Add the flour and keep mixing until it becomes a stiff dough.

4. Put the dough in plastic wrap and leave it in the fridge for two hours.

5. Roll the dough on a floured surface and cut into different shapes using cookie cutters.

6. Place the cookies on a baking tray and bake them at maximum temperature until they become
brown on the edges, usually fifteen minutes.

7. Wait until they are cold, and if you like, you can decorate them with coloured icing.

8. You can also make a hole on the cookies before baking them, pass a short piece of wool
through it and hang them from the Christmas tree!

recipe receta de cocina. La receta que hace el médico se llama prescription.

room temperature temperatura ambiente
sifted flour harina tamizada. El verbo to sift es tamizar.
teaspoon cucharadita
to beat batir
fluffy aireada, liviana
stiff sólida
dough masa
plastic wrap plástico transparente
to leave dejar
floured con harina
shapes formas
to place ubicar
baking tray bandeja para hornear
to bake hornear, cocinar en el horno
edges bordes
icing glacé, azúcar impalpable con agua
wool lana
to hang colgar

Here's a recipe to make flapjacks. This recipe is very popular in Britain and North America. It's
delicious and easy to make!

We thank Vicky Oliva Navarro (from Barcelona, Spain) for sending us this recipe.

FLAPJACKS

You will need:

 225g butter
 85g sugar
 2 tablespoons honey
 1/4 teaspoon salt
 340g porridge oats
 115g raisins (optional)

Follow these easy steps:

1. Melt the butter, sugar and honey in a saucepan. Turn off the heat.

2. Add the porridge oats, the salt and the raisins. Mix well.

3. Put the mixture into an oven dish. Flatten with a spoon. Bake at 180ºC for 20 to 30 minutes.

4. Cut the flapjacks into rectangles.

Eat after 30 minutes. And that's all!

flapjack Es el nombre de una galleta hecha de avena, mantequilla y miel, tal como se describe en esta
receta
tablespoon cucharada (sopera)
porridge avena procesada
oats
raisins pasas de uva
to melt derretir
saucepan cacerola
oven dish bandeja para horno
to flatten alisar