Hot Cross cookie - Easter Calendar 2014

Today it is Easter Monday and it is the last day in the Easter vacation.

I have located this recipe on Hot Cross cookies on the blog What Kate Baked. And it gave me a great opportunity to empty my kitchen cupboards from various leftovers from my Christmas baking. In Denmark we have a saying: "Christmas lasts untill Easter", so I knew, that I had to bake these cookies. And a huge thank you to Kate for sharing this recipe with us as reader and writers out here in blog land.

Hot Cross cookies a la What Kate Baked: - 24 cookies

• 125 melted butter
• 75 g soft brown sugar (brun farin)
• 50 g sugar
• 1 egg
• 225 g (cake) flour
• 1 teaspoon Stollen spice or mixed spice
• 1 teasspon bicarbonate of soda
• 50 g sultanas
• 50 g raisins
• 25 g candied sucat
• 25 g candied orange peel
• 50 icing sugar for glazing

1. Heat up the (conventional) oven to 180'C.
2. Beat sugar and sugars together for 2-3 minutes using an electrical mixer.
3. Add the egg and whip again into a homogenouse mass.
4. Stir in the flour, spice and bicarbonate of soda by hand.
5. Stir in the raisins and dried fruit.
6. Form the cookie dough in a rounded ball with the size of checnut.
7. Cover the baking tray with baking paper.
8. Place the cookie dough with big distance between each cookie ball.
9. Bake the cookies in the upper part of the oven at 180'C for 15 minutes.
10. Cool down the cookies, before decorating them with sugar icing with the shape of a cross.
11. Store the cookies in an airtigth container.