Happy Dots
Cheerful, colourful cookies that bring instant childish joy, but they taste great too, for the grownups of course.
Add a burst of colour and happiness to your Christmas baking with these delightful Happy Dots Cookies! Coloured with festive royal icing and baked to golden perfection, they’re as joyful to look at as they are to eat. Perfect for cookie swaps, gifting, or brightening up your holiday cookie platter, these sweet little gems are guaranteed to make everyone smile. A true family favourite from the Bake the Halls ebook and Advent Cookie Calendar.
We know the kids will love them, and love making them. Mess included free with every batch.
Need
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The Cookies
- 300 Grams bakers or strong flour BUY
- 1 Teaspoon baking powder
- 1 Pinch pink salt flakes BUY
- 150 Grams raw caster sugar BUY
- 170 Grams butter BUY
- 1 eggs
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To Finish
- 1 Batch Royal Icing Recipe
- food colouring, multiple colours of your choice
Do
- 1
Line 2 baking trays with baking paper and set aside
- 2
Place flour, baking powder and salt into the Thermomix bowl and combine 10 sec/speed 10. Set aside.
- 3
Place sugar into the Thermomix bowl and mill 10 sec/speed 10.
- 4
Add butter and combine 20 sec/speed 6 or until fully combined. Scrape down sides of bowl.
- 5
Insert butterfly and whip, 1 min/Butterfly/speed 3.
- 6
Add egg and vanilla and combine 10 sec/speed 3.
- 7
Remove butterfly and scrape down sides of bowl.
- 8
Add the flour mix and combine 10 sec/speed 5.
- 9
Roll dough out on a floured silpat mat in a rectangle shape, wrap up and refrigerate for 1 hour
- 10
Preheat oven to 175°C.
- 11
Roll out cookie dough on to a floured bench and cut into 5cm 'dots' or circles. Place onto prepared trays. They won't spread, so they can be quite close together on the tray.
- 12
Bake for 11 minutes, or until the edges have started to brown. Leave on baking tray for 5 minutes, then transfer to a cooling rack.
- 13
Decorate when completely cold.
- 14
Make the royal icing and divide between small bowls. Add desired food colouring and stir well. Keep covered with a damp tea towel to avoid drying out.
- 15
Dip each cookie into the icing and let it drip off until it starts setting, flip it over and lay back on the lined tray. Allow to set overnight.
- 16
Store in the fridge until you are ready to gift, wrap and voila...prettiest cookies ever! Merry Christmas.
Tenina Holder is a wife, mother of five and grandmother of nine, who started cooking in the olden days before Thermomix was even a thing.
Tenina has become the premium go to source for all Thermomix expertise and of course fresh and easy recipes that work. Her cooking classes and foodie trips are sold out in literally hours, her cookbooks appear on the Australian best seller lists and her social reach is in the millions. Her Insider Club is the most fun you can have with a Thermomix and you really should join her! She believes chocolate, butter and salt are health foods. Her food positivity mantra is, eat everything, just not all at once!
