October 15, 2025, 6:15 am | Read time: 3 minutes
No Christmas without cookies! Our recipe dates back to grandmother’s time and is perfect for baking beginners. The cookie dough can be made easily with just a few ingredients. Ready for an extra dose of holiday spirit?
For many, a bowl of homemade cookies is an essential part of Christmas. If you’re still missing them at home, we have the solution: simply bake cookies yourself—with our recipe, they taste just like grandma’s! You’ll also find out what you need for baking cookies and how to proceed.
Overview
Classic Cookie Baking–A Simple Recipe
Ingredients (for about 30 cookies)
- 250 grams of flour (200 grams for the dough)
- 100 grams of butter (softened)
- 70 grams of sugar
- one egg
- optional: if you want to decorate your cookies at the end, you can use food coloring, edible pearls, chocolate chips, or sprinkles
Materials
- a bowl
- a whisk
- cookie cutters
- a rolling pin (alternatively, a glass bottle works too)
- parchment paper
- optional: a hand mixer if you don’t want to knead the dough with your fingers
Baking Instructions
- First, mix 200 grams of flour, sugar, and the egg in a bowl using a whisk.
- Now add the butter and knead everything until a dough forms—either with your hands or a hand mixer.
- Then let the dough rest in the refrigerator for about 45 minutes.
- Afterward, sprinkle the remaining flour on the work surface, place the dough on it, dust the rolling pin and your hands with flour, and roll out the dough until it’s about half a centimeter thick.
- Now cut out small shapes with the cookie cutters.
- Place the cookies on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and bake in the oven at 200 degrees Celsius (about 180 degrees Celsius for convection) for about ten minutes.
- Finally, remove the cookies and let them cool. If desired, you can decorate the cooled cookies with colors and small edible decorations. Your homemade cookies are ready!
Tips for Enhancing: If you want your cookies to be a bit more special, you can mix in various spices like cinnamon, vanilla, or lemon into the dough. You can use either regular powdered spices or pastes. Fruit lovers can also fold in chopped dried fruits, and finely chopped nuts can give the cookies a delicious note.
Tips for Baking Healthier Cookies
If you don’t want to indulge unhealthily even at Christmas, you can adjust the recipe and bake cookies without sugar or gluten.
Alternative Ingredients
- Tigernut, almond, coconut, oat, or buckwheat flour
- Spelt flour (contains gluten but is a healthier alternative to wheat flour)
- Agave syrup, rice syrup, honey, coconut sugar, xylitol, erythritol, or powdered sugar substitute
- plant-based butter, cocoa butter, or solid coconut oil
Note: The consistency and color of the dough may differ from classic dough, but that doesn’t mean it’s a failure.