• Put all ingredients in a mixing bowl and make very quick movements to combine them until they come together as a dough.
• Chill the dough in the fridge for half an hour-hour.
• Heat the oven to 175 °C.
• Roll out the dough to 5 mm/0,2 inches thick on a floured surface with a rolling pin. Cut the dough with the cookie cutter you would like and place them on a baking tray.
• Bake the cookies for 8-10 mins (they have to be slightly light brown).

Variations & decorations

• Sugar & nut (when you've cut the dough with the cookie cutter, brush them with egg white and sprinkle them with a mix of roughly chopped nut and granulated sugar, place them on the baking tray and bake them).
• Thumbprint (form small balls of the dough and sprinkle them with a little bit of granulated sugar, make a small indentation with your thumb in each cookie, fill them with jam and bake them).
• Linzer (once you've rolled out the dough, you have to cut the top and the bottom: for the bottom, cut out circles, for the top, cut out the circles' center with a smaller heart/star-shaped cutter. Once baked, spread a teaspoon of jam over the bottom, sprinkle the tops with powdered sugar and sandwich them together).
• Chocolate & candied orange (glaze the baked cookies with chocolate and sprinkle them with finely chopped candied orange).
• Lemon & rosemary (glaze the baked cookies with a mix of lemon juice and powdered sugar (2-3 tbsp of lemon juice and 3-4 tbsp. powdered sugar) and sprinkle with finely chopped fresh rosemary).
• You can create an infinite number of glazes with powdered sugar and food colouring, and decorate the cookies with the Christmas decoration you want.