Chocolate-dipped Christmas tree cookies

First off, let me say that both the recipe for these chocolate-dipped Christmas tree cookies and the decorating bit are beginner-friendly. Even if you've never decorated a cookie in your life, you'll have no problem decorating these. The cookie recipe uses a blend of Christmas spices and one unexpected ingredient. Then, they are dipped in white chocolate and decorated with chopped pistachios and freeze-dried Raspberries. They look impressive but are very easy to make. If you follow both tutorials to the letter, your Christmas cookies will turn out exactly like mine.

Your family and friends will love to receive these Christmas tree cookies as handmade Christmas gifts – that's if you can bear to give them away in the first place!

The inspiration for these chocolate-dipped Christmas tree cookies came from the post 'How to make Christmas cookies with an embossed rolling pin'. I've adapted the cookie dough recipe from that post slightly to make these Christmas cookies.

Christmas cookie blog hop

I've teamed up with some of my lovely blogger friends for a Christmas cookie blog hop. Thanks to Kippie of Kippi at home for organising the hop.

Don't forget to visit all of my friends to get their family's favourite Christmas cookie recipes. Find the photos and links at the bottom of this post.

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Table of contents

• Christmas cookie blog hop
• Save it for later!
• Baking Christmas tree cookies
• Ingredients for the cookie dough
• Ingredients for decorating
• Shop the post
• Instructions for baking
• Instructions for decorating
• Equipment
• Top tips
• Watch it on YouTube
• 📖 Recipe
• These posts are good too!
• More Christmas cookie ideas
• Sign up to our newsletter

Baking Christmas tree cookies

Ingredients for the cookie dough

• Unsalted butter
• Confectioner’s (icing) sugar
• 1 Egg (at room temperature)
• A pinch of salt
• All-purpose flour
• Tablespoon Spekulatius spice mixture
• or
• ½ Teaspoon mixed spice (Allspice), ½ Teaspoon cinnamon.

Ingredients for decorating

White couverture chocolate (or good quality Chocolate)

Pistachios (chopped)

Raspberries (freeze-dried)

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Instructions for baking

Step one - Cream together the butter and sugar. The mixture is ready when it looks smooth, pale and creamy.

Step two - Add an egg to the mix and blend it in well.

Step three - Sift in the flour, salt and spices and mix until the mixture comes together as a dough.

Step four – Form a ball with the dough mixture, flatten it with your hands and cut it in half. Chill the dough in the fridge for at least twenty minutes.

Step five – Flour your surface and roll out one piece of your dough at a time with a rolling pin.

Step six – Use a Christmas tree cookie cutter to cut out Christmas trees around one centimetre thick (ten millimetres).

Step seven – Bake (see recipe below). Allow to cool down.

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Hint: If you are short on time, you can chill the dough in the freezer for ten minutes instead.

Make the dough ahead of time – store in an air-tight container in the fridge for up to two days. Freeze for up to three months.

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Instructions for decorating

Step one - Chop the chocolate into small pieces and melt in a double boiler or bain-marie. (see my top tips below). Stir the chocolate until smooth.

Step two – Once the chocolate has cooled a little, dip one side of the cookies into the melted white chocolate, then place them on a sheet of parchment (baking) paper.

Step three – make swirls in the chocolate with the back of a spoon.

Step four – hold a small cutting board over the middle of the Christmas cookies and sprinkle some chopped pistachios and dried raspberries onto one side.

Step five – allow the cookies to set

Step five - Enjoy!

Equipment

Double boiler (this one is specifically for melting chocolate) or

Heat-proof bowl and

Large saucepan

Spoon (for stirring and swirling)

Christmas tree cookie cutter

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Top tips

If you own a double boiler, I recommend that you use it for melting the chocolate.

If like me, you don't own a double boiler, you can use a heat-proof bowl with handles over the top of a large saucepan instead.

Don't let the glass bowl touch the bottom of the saucepan. If it does your chocolate may burn.

The water in the saucepan should just touch the bottom of the heat-proof bowl.

Once the water in the saucepan has come to a mild simmer, turn off the heat and allow the chocolate to melt.

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Watch it on YouTube

If you'd prefer to watch a video of the decorating part, I have a short video on YouTube showing you just that! You can see it here:

Decorating Chocolate-dipped Christmas tree cookies

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Will you make these delicious chocolate-dipped Christmas tree cookies this year?

You can find an even easier way to decorate Christmas cookies in this post.

These posts are good too!

More Christmas cookie ideas

Here are some more delicious Christmas cookie ideas from some of my lovely blogger friends.

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Kippi @ Kippi at home: This Chocolate No Bake Cookie Recipe makes a quick irresistible chocolaty treat.

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Kristin @ My uncommon slice of suburbia: Christmas Magic Cookie Bars are rich, yet delicious with a buttery graham cracker crust layered with chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, coconut flakes then topped off with red and green m&m, baked to golden perfection, they make for the perfect holiday treat.

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Meegan Makes: Peppermint snowball cookies: This festive Peppermint Snowball Cookie Recipe is a light buttery cookie from scratch. With a hint of peppermint extract, then rolled in crushed candy canes and confectioners' sugar. It's like Christmas in every bite.

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Rebecca @ Zucchini sisters: This vintage old fashioned ginger snap cookies recipe makes the most delicious spiced cookies that are crisp on the outside and chewy on the inside. Perfect for Christmas cookie swaps and gift-giving or any time of the year!

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