The Fairy Kisses Cookies are a delightful and one-of-a-kind Christmas cookie recipe. With a sugar cookie base topped with a delightful blend of candy and meringue, these treats are a perfect addition to the festive holiday season. Get ready to indulge in these unique Christmas cookies that will surely be devoured in no time.

Every year, my kids start to celebrate their favorite season of the year earlier and earlier. This year, though, my boy already started with his favorite Christmas songs in August, and we have watched Christmas movies since September. I know the movie “Kevin alone at home” by heart now ;-).

Fairy Kisses are my favorite unique christmas cookie recipe

But what I love the most about that most beloved festive holiday season is the smell of freshly baked Christmas cookies. All those wonderful spices and smells flowing through the house—that’s what Christmas is all about for me. I could forget myself in my kitchen, kneading up festive yeasty deliciousness, preparing all the different doughs for at least 20 different Christmas cookie recipes. Yes, I’m definitely a carb lover. And no, I don’t care. Not during my favourite season ;-).

Fairy Kisses Cookies – what to expect from my favorite Christmas cookies recipe

First of all, I didn’t invent that Christmas cookie recipe or the name. I found it in a baking magazine about 16 years ago—yes, I’m already that old ;-).

So what is that cookie all about:

That tiny, beautiful, gorgeous cookie has a simple sugar cookie recipe base. Then there is that super delicious “Toffifee” candy, which is sweet and delicious already on its own. And finally, all that goodness is topped with an airy Pavlova-like meringue.

That cookie gets baked for about 15 min; that’s when the oven works its magic ;-). The heat melts that candy, and the caramel and chocolate become that super ooey gooey mess, and that meringue becomes that crisp and airy top but is still a little chewy inside.

When I want to be super fancy, I’m dusting the cookies with some edible gold dust.

And?!? Hope you are drooling right now!

Fairy Kisses are on my Christmas cookies baking list every year and every year I have to bake at least about 2 batches of them. It’s one of my favourite holiday recipes and it sweetens up the waiting for my family and I until Christmas eve .

Sweet fairy kisses and warm cookie hugs

Nina

Update: The cookies may seem undercooked when they come right out of the oven. The sugar cookie base isn’t crisp but very soft, but that’s alright. When that candy melts, it seeps a little bit into the sugar cookie dough, making the cookie chewy and not crisp. The cookies have a chewy base and a crispy meringue cloud.

If you are looking for more delicious Christmas cookies, I’ve got you covered:

• “Eisenbahner” Railroad Cookies – a folksy Austrian Christmas cookie recipe with almond paste and orange jam
• Nutty triangles – crispy shortcrust base, fruity apricot jam, a sweet nutty filling, and a little bit of dark chocolate
• Boozy chocolate cake moon cookies
• Bailey’s hazelnut chocolate shortbread cookies
• Austrian Vanillekipferl (Vanilla Crescents)
• Antonia’s all-time favorite Christmas Cookies Collection
• Speculoos Gingerbread Cookies with brown butter maple glaze
• Rudolph Reindeer gingerbread cupcakes

Fairy Kiss Cookies – a unique Christmas cookie recipe

4 from 330 votes

Recipe by Nina Course: cookies, DessertCuisine: American, austrian

Servings

48

cookies

Prep time

45

minutes

Cooking time

15

minutes

Calories

69

kcal

resting time

10

minutes

Fairy Kiss Cookies is a super delicious and unique

Christmas Cookie recipe. It can’t be missed on the Santa Cookie plate. It’s my family’s favorite Christmas Cookie recipe.

It has a crisp sugar cookie base with a Toffee Candy in the middle and a light and airy meringue on top. It’s a gooey gooey deliciousness with an airy and crips top. *Ingredients available in grams and US measurements

Cook Mode

Keep the screen of your device on

Ingredients

• Sugar Cookie dough

• 300 g 300 All-purpose flour Us: 1 cup + 3/4 cup +2Tsp

• 1 tsp 1 baking powder

• 100 g 100 cold butter cut into small cubes/ Us: 7 tbsp or a little less than a stick of butter

• 1 1 egg

• 50 ml 50 heavy cream in US: 3 tbsp + 1 tsp

• 120 g 120 sugar Us: 1/2 cup 1,5 tbsp

• 48 pieces 48 Toffifee candy

• Meringue

• 4 4 egg whites large, about 160g

• 180 g 180 white sugar Us: 1/2 cup + 1/3 tbsp

• 2 tsp 2 white vinegar

• 1 1/3 tbsp 1 1/3 corn starch

Directions

• Sugar Cookie dough
• In a medium bowl, cut the cold butter cubes into the flour until the butter cubes are pea-sized crumbs.
• Add all the rest of the ingredients to the flour and assemble everything into a dough ball.
• Wrap it in plastic wrap and let it rest for 30 minutes.
• While the dough is resting, prepare the meringue.
• Roll out the dough until less than 0.5 cm thick and cut out small round disks a little larger in diameter than the Toffifee Candy.
• Put the disks on a baking sheet with about 5cm of space on all sides and put the Toffifee Candy with the flat side on top.

  • 

• Meringue
• Preheat the oven to a 150°Celsius fan, which is about 300 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Beat the egg whites in a bowl of a standing mixer until soft peaks form.
• Gradually add the sugar and beat very well until the mixture is glossy and stiff.
• Sift the corn flour over the egg whites mixture and add the vinegar.
• Fold everything under carefully but thoroughly.
• Fill the mass into a piping bag with an extra large round or open star tip.
• Carefully pipe the meringue on top of the Toffifee Candy. Stay this way and let the meringue cover the whole candy. With the tip of a knife, carefully push down the meringue on the side so that it touches the dough.

  • 

• Repeat with all the other cookies.
• Place the baking sheets into the oven. Not more than 2 and bake for 5 min at 150° Celsius (300° F)
• Turn the heat down to 130 degrees Celsius ( 265 degrees Fahrenheit) and bake the cookie sheets for about 15 minutes. Then, turn off the oven open the oven door just a bit and let the baking sheet sit in the oven for another 10 minutes.
• Carefully take out the baking sheets and let cool completely.

Nutrition Facts

• Calories: 69kcal
• Carbohydrates: 11g
• Protein: 1g
• Fat: 2g
• Saturated Fat: 1g
• Cholesterol: 9mg
• Sodium: 22mg
• Potassium: 22mg
• Fiber: 1g
• Sugar: 6g
• Vitamin A: 72IU
• Calcium: 8mg
• Iron: 1mg

Did you make this recipe?

Tag @twosisterslivinglife on Instagram and hashtag it with

Like this recipe?

Follow @twosissterslivinglife on Pinterest

Give us a follow!

Follow us on Facebook

If you enjoyed that recipe, maybe you wanna try our fluffy Blueberry Brioche Babka.

Say hello to us on social media . You can connect with us on Pinterest, Facebook and Instagram!

Don’t have time for the recipe right now? PIN IT for later.

The post Fairy Kisses – a unique Christmas Cookie recipe appeared first on Two Sisters Living Life.

This is a flavorful easy recipe for a baked chocolate cherry cake made with sourdough discard and an a crispy salty walnut cinnamon crust . Its a luscious moist and fudgy summer cake recipe which satisfies all your cravings . Its an easy baking and perfect to use up some of your disacard sourdough. Don’t throw away your sourdough discard bake something delicious.

When you are baking with sourdough your are bound to have some discard . But please don’t throw it way. There are so many delicious things you can make with that discarded sourdough starter like for example my fudgy chocolate cherry cake. This cake recipe satisfies all your taste buds and developes an almost umami flavor because of the sourdough.

chocolate cake recipe, fudgy sourdough starter discard recipes, dessert ideas, chocolate cherry cake. what to do with sourdough discard, one layer cake, easy, cherry cake recipe, cake recipe, summer bake recipe

What would be a summer without a flavorful cherry cake bake? A very sad one I guess. All those sweet ripe cherries need to get baked into a delicious sweet treat. A delicious sweet bake can be such an amazing mood booster and can lighten up almost every mood. At least it’s that for me.

But this sourdough chocolate cherry cake can also be made all through the year with frozen cherries instead of fresh ones. It’s a chocolate cake recipe that’s served warm with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream will be gone in seconds and everybody will cry out for a second a third serving. Cross my heart ?.

chocolate cake recipe, fudgy sourdough starter discard recipes, dessert ideas, chocolate cherry cake. what to do with sourdough discard, one layer cake, easy, cherry cake recipe, cake recipe, summer bake recipe

What I like the most about this chocolate cherry cake made with sourdough discard

• First it’s great for minimizing your sourdough discard. Nothing is better and more satisfying than cutting down on food waste
• I like how moist and fudgy the cherries make that cake. There is a hint of cinnamon in it which lets this cake recipe become so much more . I always connect cinnamon with childhood memories and thats why I added a hint of cinnamon. Good mood food, right?!?
• There is a hint of cinnamon in it which lets this cake recipe become so much more . I always connect cinnamon with childhood memories and thats why I added a hint of cinnamon. Good mood food, right?!?
• It’s an easy recipe made with mostly pantry stables .
• If you aren’t into sourdough baking but still want to bake that cake that’s no problem at all. Instead of the 200g sourdough discard use 100g water, 100g flour and 1/2 tsp baking powder (all purpose, spelt flour, bread flour…whatever you have at home)

I hope you will enjoy this luscious chocolate cake recipe as much as my family and I do. If you make that recipe please say “Hi” and let me know. What I love the most is hearing from you. 

Warm sugary cinnamon hugs Nina

Are you looking for more cake recipes? Here are some more winter cake recipes for you?:

• Fudgy chocolate orange bundt cake 
• Sourdough baked cinnamon apple cake
• Gluten free caramelized fig upside down cake
• Antonia’s favorite apple cake recipe
• Lemon Coconut Cheesecake with meringue kisses
• Easy Victoria sponge cake recipe with berries and cream cheese

Sourdough Baked chocolate cherry cake with salty walnut cinnamon crust – easy sourdough discard recipe

5 from 26 votes

Recipe by Nina Course: brunch, DessertCuisine: American, austrian

Servings

10

Prep time

20

minutes

Cooking time

50

minutes

Calories

450

kcal

Total time

2

hours 

10

minutes

This is a flavorful easy recipe for a baked chocolate cherry cake made with sourdough discard and a satisfying salty walnut cinnamon crust . Its a satisfying moist summer cake recipe which satisfies all your cravings . Its an easy baking and perfect to use up some of your disacard sourdough.

Cook Mode

Keep the screen of your device on

Ingredients

• 250 g 250 cherries Cut in half and pitted. and some more cherries for decoration

• 200 g 200 sourdough discard needs to be taken out of the fridge and come to room temperature 1 hour in advance.

• 30 g 30 butter for the tart form

• 2 tbsp 2 sugar for the tart form

• 4 large 4 eggs separated

• 50 g 50 butter room temperature, very soft

• 50 g 50 vegetable oil

• 200 g 200 white sugar for the egg yolks

• 50 g 50 white sugar for the egg whites

• 100 g 100 spelt flour or all purpose

• 100 g 100 finer chopped walnuts

• 50 g 50 unsweetend cocoa powder

• 1 tsp 1 cinnamon

• salty walnut crust cinnamon topping

• 50 g 50 chopped walnuts

• 1 tsp 1 cinnamon

• 2 tbsp 2 brown sugar

• 1/2 tsp 1/2 salt

• 30 g 30 soft butter

Directions

• Start with beating some air into the discard with a spoon and let the discard come to room temperature for about one hour.
• After the discard has come to room temperature, preheat your oven to 170°Celsius (350°F) aircirculation.
• Butter the inside of your tart form and sugar it out afterwards.
• Mix togehter the spelt flour, finer choopped walnuts, cinnamon, unsweetend cocoa powder and put aside.
• Beat the egg whites with the 50g white sugar in a bowl of a standmixer until stiff and glossy (4-6 minutes). Put the bowl aside.
• In another bowl of your stand mixer mix togehter sourdough discard, 200g white sugar, egg yolks, vegetable oil and butter until creamy . 6 min
• Now fold in alternately the flour mixture and the egg whites in 4 steps into the discard batter and mix everything carefully. Small egg white lumps are totally fine.
• At last fold in 2/3 of the cherries.
• Pour the batter into the cake form and place the rest of the halved cherries gently on top going in circles from the outside to the inside.
• Bake the cake for about 20 minutes .
• Take the cake gently out of the oven and sprinke the salty walnut crust mixture evenly on top. Leave out the edges.
• Bake the cake for 30-40 more minutes until a wooden skewer comes out clean.
• Let the cake cool completely and decorate with more cherries and some chopped dark chocolate .
• Salty walnut Cinnamon crust
• When the cake is in the oven for the first 20 minutes mix all ingredients together with a fork or your fingers.

Equipment

• 24cm round cake form (8inch in diameter)

Nutrition Facts

• Calories: 450kcal
• Carbohydrates: 50g
• Protein: 8g
• Fat: 27g
• Saturated Fat: 12g
• Trans Fat: 1g
• Cholesterol: 98mg
• Sodium: 226mg
• Potassium: 234mg
• Fiber: 5g
• Sugar: 33g
• Vitamin A: 403IU
• Vitamin C: 2mg
• Calcium: 46mg
• Iron: 2mg

Did you make this recipe?

Tag @twosisterslivinglife on Instagram and hashtag it with

Like this recipe?

Follow @twosissterslivinglife on Pinterest

Give us a follow!

Follow us on Facebook

The post Fudgy sourdough chocolate cherry cake recipe with sweet-salty walnut crust appeared first on Two Sisters Living Life.