All you need for christmas are cookies (swiss recipe)

Hello everyone :-)

Today I want to show you how to make very tasty cookies which are called "mailäderli ". They are traditional swiss cookies (18th century) which almost everyone in switzerland eats while december / christmas. Bake the cookies for your relatives and you and have a nice time together. It is worth it :)

The recipe is very simple but the result is amazing, believe me!

The Ingredients for 80 cookies:

500g / 18 ounces flour
225g / 8 ounces sugar
250g / 9 ounces butter
3 eggs
1 pinch of salt
1 lemon
1 yellow of an egg

The preparation:

1. Stir the butter in a bowl until it is nice and smooth.
2. Add sugar, salt and the 3 eggs and stir it untilthe ingredients are evenly distributed.
3. Grind the skin of the lemon and add it to the mixture of the previous step.
4. Add theflour, knead to a soft dough.
5. Cover the dough and let it rest for about 2 hours in a cool place (frigde).
6. Cut the dough in parts and roll it out on a flat, with flour covered surface, approximately 5 mm (0.2 inches) thick.
7. Put out different shapes and put them on a baking sheet covered with baking paper.
8. Let it cool for about 15 minutes.
9. Before baking you can now add yellow of an egg on the surface of the cookies.
10. Bake the cookies for about 10 minutes in the center of the pre-heated oven at 200 °C (392 °F).
11. Let cool them down completely before serving.

Now you have a wonderfull suprise for your friends & family. Let me know in the comments if it tasted you and if you would like to know another swiss cookies recipe (there are a few more and all of them are really good).

Thanks for reading :-)