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These cookies with vanilla and chocolate flavor are incredibly crumbly and buttery. Cinnamon provides a spicy sweet and aromatic note. The cookies are also an unusual eye-catcher on the Christmas cookie plate. You can easily make them at home using common ingredients. You can find a detailed tree stump cookies recipe with the exact quantities and step-by-step instructions below.
With chocolate-vanilla flavor and cinnamon
The inside of my tree stump cookies is made from vanilla shortcrust pastry. The top layer is a chocolate shortcrust pastry made with cocoa powder. The cookies are filled with cinnamon and cocoa powder.
The vanilla and chocolate dough and cinnamon together create a delicious and unique combination. The tree trunk cookies are therefore not only visually special, but also taste special, similar to the honey cookies or the walnut ghriba.
Christmas tree stump cookies
The tree stump cookies are perfect for the Advent season. With their shape and pattern, they are a feast for the eyes on the cookie plate, alongside the chocolate pine cone cookies and the lemon crinkle cookies. You can eat them yourself or give them as a gift to your loved ones.
By the way, try my tree stump cake too.
Experiment with the filling
I filled the tree trunk cookies with a mixture of cinnamon and cocoa powder. This gives them even more chocolate flavor and a sweet spice.
Other Christmas spices can be used instead of cinnamon, just like for the gingerbread cookies. Alternatively, you can simply leave out the spices and use more cocoa powder instead.
Replace egg yolks with egg
I used egg yolks for the dough, some of which I had left over from the cake “Yablonka”. This makes the cookies particularly tender and fluffy. However, if you can’t use egg whites, you can simply use an egg in the recipe.
These tree stump cookies are
- crumbly,
- buttery,
- chocolaty,
- spicy sweet,
- incredibly delicious,
- aromatic,
- with cinnamon,
- quick and easy to make,
- a sweet eye-catcher on the cookie plate,
- ideal for Christmas alongside the many other fancy cookies.
How to make tree stump cookies: tips and tricks
- You can replace the egg yolks with 1 egg.
- You can adjust the amount of powdered sugar for the dough to taste.
- You can use other sweet spices instead of cinnamon. You can also just fill the cookies with cocoa powder.
- Depending on how large your cookies are in diameter, the baking time specified in the recipe may vary.
Did you make the tree stump cookies using this recipe? I look forward to your result, your star rating and your comment below on how they turned out and how they tasted.
Try these cookie recipes too:
- Kefir cookies without butter – fluffy with a sugar crust
- Quark sugar roll cookies – very fluffy
- Crumb cookies with caramel filling
Tree stump cookies
Ingredients
- 130 g butter room warm
- 80 g powdered sugar
- 2 egg yolks
- 200 g flour
- 1 pinch of ground vanilla bean
- 1 pinch of salt
- flour for the work surface
additionally for the vanilla dough
- approx. 20 g flour
additionally for the chocolate dough
- 10 g cocoa powder
- approx. 10 g flour
for the filling
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp cocoa powder
for dusting
- powdered sugar
Instructions
- Mix egg yolks with powdered sugar, vanilla and salt.
- Add softened butter cut into pieces and mix.
- Add flour and mix to a very sticky dough.
- Pour 1/3 of the dough into a clean mixing bowl, add cocoa powder and knead briefly to form a soft chocolate shortcrust dough.
- If the chocolate dough is now sticky, knead in some more flour.
- Shape the chocolate dough into a rectangular plate and chill in an airtight container for 30 minutes.
- Add a little more flour to the light dough and knead briefly to form a soft, no longer sticky vanilla dough.
- Shape the vanilla dough into a rectangular plate and chill in an airtight container for approx. 30 minutes.
Preparation of the filling
- Mix cinnamon and cocoa powder.
Preparation of the tree stump cookies
- Roll out the vanilla dough into a long rectangle on a floured work surface.
- Sprinkle the dough rectangle evenly with the cinnamon cocoa mixture and roll it up from the long side.
- Roll the chocolate dough on the floured work surface into a narrow rectangle that is about as long as the roll of vanilla dough.
- Wrap the roll in the chocolate dough.
- Roll the chocolate vanilla roll back and forth briefly and press it lightly on the sides with your hands so that it becomes narrower and longer.
- Cut the roll into approx. 4 cm long rolls, draw tree trunk patterns on them with a fork and place the cookies on a baking tray lined with baking paper.
- Bake the cookies in a preheated oven at 356 °F (180 °C) for approx. 15 minutes and leave to cool on the baking tray.
- Dust the tree stump cookies lightly with powdered sugar.
Notes
- You can replace the egg yolks with 1 egg.
- You can adjust the amount of powdered sugar for the dough to taste.
- You can use other sweet spices instead of cinnamon. You can also just fill the cookies with cocoa powder.
- Depending on how large your cookies are in diameter, the baking time specified may vary.
- Take note of the detailed tips and tricks for making the tree stump cookies at the top of the article.
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