hmm if you want to know how to make these really cute German treats then keep on watching you will need vanilla egg plain flour sugar and butter start off by weighing 250 grams of butter and putting it into a large mixing bowl weigh out 500 grams of flour and then sliver into a bowl now you have to put a hundred and thirty grams of sugar into the bowl now separate the egg yolk and add button don't forget to add a teaspoon of vanilla essence time to mix you can do this by hand or if you have one you can use an electric mixer which is a lot easier we added a splash of milk because it was too crumbly what's your dough is for roll it in a big bowl and then put cling film around it and pop it in the fridge while your dough is in the fridge pre-heat your oven to 180 degrees Celsius roll out your dough in towards about a centimeter not off then now we use your cookie cutters to cut out some fun Christmas shapes now place them on a baking tray with some butter underneath so they don't stick when you try and take them out darling leave them in the oven until they're golden-brown they should be ready after 10 to 12 minutes in the oven make sure you leave them to cool down because they will be very hot once they of course you can ice them however you want decorate them it's up to you traditionally put jam in the middle and icing sugar on top