Delightful Christmas Cornmeal Cookie Recipes: A Must-Try for the Festive Season!

Have you considered what cookies you’ll bake this Christmas?

Every family has their favorite types, but why not surprise them with something unconventional?

Maybe try a healthy and tempting recipe for cornmeal cookies. Make your Christmas a little different this year.

Try one of our corn recipes. They are all excellent!

Cornmeal Pine Nut Cookies

Ingredients:

1. 1 cup softened butter
2. 2/3 cup sugar
3. 2 egg yolks
4. 1 and 1/2 teaspoons of vanilla
5. Pinch of salt
6. 3/4 cup white or fine yellow cornmeal
7. 2 cups plain flour
8. 1 cup pine nuts

Method:

1. In a bowl, beat the butter with the sugar until smooth.
2. Add egg yolks.
3. Add vanilla and salt and mix.
4. Add both flours and make a dough.
5. Roll out the dough into a sheet about 0.2 inches high.
6. Sprinkle the dough with pine nuts and press them in lightly.
7. Preheat the oven to 340°F.
8. With the molds, cut out the desired shapes and bake on a baking sheet lined with baking paper for 15-16 minutes, until they are lightly golden.

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Gluten-free Cornmeal Marble Cookies

Ingredients:

1. 1/3 cup of softened butter
2. 1/4 cup of powdered sugar
3. Zest from half an orange
4. 1/4 cup of corn flour
5. 1/4 cup of cornstarch
6. 1/4 cup of rice flour
7. 1 tablespoon of cocoa

Method

1. Mix butter with sugar, flour, and starch into a smooth dough.
2. Mix one-third of the dough with cocoa. Carefully mix the dark and light batter so that it remains two-colored.
3. Divide the dough into two halves, form a roll from each, and refrigerate them in plastic wrap for 2 hours.
4. Heat the oven to 340°F.
5. Cut pieces about 1 cm wide from the hardened rolls and spread them on a baking sheet lined with paper.
6. Bake for about 10 minutes and finish with sugar.

Viennese Corn Flour Whirls

Ingredients:

For the dough:

1. 1/2 cup of softened butter
2. 5 tablespoons of powdered sugar
3. 2 tablespoons of corn flour
4. 1/2 cup of all-purpose flour
5. a few drops of vanilla extract

For the filling:

1. 1/4 cup of softened butter
2. 1/2 cup of powdered sugar
3. a few drops of vanilla extract
4. raspberry jam

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 380°F and line a tray with baking paper.
2. Place the butter, icing sugar, cornmeal, plain flour, and vanilla extract in a food processor and process until smooth.
3. Place the mixture in a filler with a decorative hole and press out onto a baking sheet lined with baking paper into piles about 1.5 inches high.
4. Bake for 10-14 minutes until light golden.
5. Mix the butter, icing sugar, and vanilla into a smooth cream for the filling.
6. Fill half the cookies with cream and the other half with jam, and join them together.
7. Gently press the two halves together and dust them with powdered sugar.

Chocolate Cornflakes Balls

Ingredients:

• 2 ripe bananas
• 1/4 cup cane sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tablespoon of cocoa
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder
• 1/2 cup of wheat flour
• 1/2 cup of corn flakes
• 1/3 cup dark chocolate, finely chopped
• 2 tablespoons of oil – if you want the cookies to be more fragile

Method:

1. Mash the bananas thoroughly with a fork, add cane sugar, eggs, or possibly oil, and mix.
2. Add cocoa, baking powder, and flour to make a smooth dough.
3. Work the cornflakes and chocolate into the dough.
4. Take small pieces of the dough, roll them into balls and place them on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
5. Preheat the oven to 350°F and bake for 25 minutes.

Glute-free Crispy Stars Cookies

Your kids will love them. They will beckon you to bake them more often.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of corn flour
• 5 tablespoons of cornstarch
• 1/4 cup of powdered sugar or honey
• A teaspoon of vanilla sugar
• Pinch of salt
• 1/4 cup of softened butter
• 5 tablespoons of water (add more if the dough is too stiff)

Method:

1. Mix cornstarch and cornmeal with salt in a bowl.
2. Add the butter and knead with your hands into a crumbly dough.
3. Add sugar (or honey) and water.
4. Make a smooth dough with your hands.
5. Leave the dough wrapped in plastic wrap in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours.
6. Roll the dough into a sheet about 0.2 inches high and cut out the desired shapes.
7. Line a tray with baking paper, stack the cookies on it, and bake at a temperature of 380°F for 10 – 15 minutes.

Mocha Cookies with Corn Flour

Ingredients:

For the dough:

1. 1 1/2 cup of softened butter
2. 1 cup of sugar
3. 1/3 cup of corn flour
4. 1/4 cup of spelled flour
5. 1 cup of ground hazelnuts
6. 2 medium-sized eggs
7. Zest from one lemon
8. 3 spoons of instant coffee powder

For the frosting:

1. 1 cup of powdered sugar
2. 2 spoons of cold coffee and lemon juice
3. Chocolate mocha beans

Method:

1. Beat the softened butter with the sugar until smooth.
2. Stir the eggs into the mixture.
3. Add both flour, coffee powder, hazelnuts, and lemon zest.
4. Mix everything until the dough darkens – the coffee powder dissolves slightly.
5. Cut out with a spoon and shape round cookies on a baking sheet lined with paper.
6. Bake in the oven at a temperature of 320°F for 20 – 25 minutes.
7. Allow the cookies to cool, and spread the frosting and chocolate beans over them.
8. The frosting can be mixed with either just lemon juice, which gives the cookies a tangy, tart flavor, or with coffee and lemon juice or just coffee, depending on your preference.

The cookies will still be rubbery on the first day and taste very sweet. The next day, they will be nice and crispy but not too hard—just perfect.

Cornmeal Cookies

Ingredients:

1. 12 spoons of softened butter
2. 3/4 cup granulated sugar
3. Zest from half a lemon
4. 3 egg yolks
5. 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
6. 2 cups plain flour
7. 2/3 cup cornmeal
8. 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
9. Pinch of salt
10. ⅓ cup jam any flavor, store-bought or homemade

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 375°F.
2. Mix both flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl.
3. Beat butter and sugar until smooth, add lemon zest, vanilla extract and egg yolks.
4. Combine the flour mixture with the butter mixture and make a dough.
5. Form the dough into balls and make a hole in each one with your thumb.
6. Place the cookies on a baking sheet lined with baking paper and bake for 10-13 minutes.
7. Fill the cooled cookies with jam or ganache filling (see below).

NOTES

• Flour: When measuring the flour, be sure to spoon the flour into the measuring cup and then level it or use a kitchen scale to weigh it. Dredging a measuring cup in flour will compact flour and cause you to use too much flour. Too much flour will give you dry cookies. 
• Avoid overmixing: Mix the cookie dough only as much as needed to combine. Overmixing can make the cookies turn out hard.
• Jam filling: You can fill these cookies with jam before or after baking. If you use something else for filling, add it after baking.
• Filling options: Instead of jam, fill the baked cookies with salted caramel sauce, lemon curd, or Nutella.
• Chocolate ganache filling: These cookies can also be filled with chocolate ganache instead of jam. Add 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips to a heat-proof bowl to make ganache. Heat 1/4 cup heavy cream in the microwave or on the stovetop until it just starts to bubble (do not boil). Pour the hot cream over the chocolate and let it sit for 3 minutes. Whisk the two ingredients together until the chocolate has melted completely and you have a silky ganache. Fill with chocolate ganache after baking. 
• Decoration suggestions: Sprinkle with nonpareils or drizzle with chocolate ganache or melted white or semi-sweet chocolate.
• Storage: Store cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 1 week.

Many cuisines have always used wheat flour for cooking and baking, but it contains no nutrients, only empty calories. Recently, therefore, flours, the basis of which is not only not wheat, but also other grains, are gaining ground. With a healthier lifestyle, we change our eating habits and with them our recipes.

Health benefits of cornmeal

1. It helps reduce cholesterol—thanks to its high fiber content, it reduces the level of “bad cholesterol.”
2. It gives the body energy – it contains enough calories to balance the ones we burn daily.
3. It helps with constipation. The high fiber content also improves intestinal peristalsis and aids the digestion process.
4. It is beneficial for bones – because it contains potassium and magnesium, minerals that strengthen bones, connective tissues, and teeth.
5. Lowers blood pressure – thanks to lower sodium content. Therefore, elderly people and people with high blood pressure should definitely include corn flour in their diet.
6. It improves cognitive function because it contains magnesium, which is also used to treat Alzheimer’s disease.
7. It is very beneficial during pregnancy – because it is rich in folic acid, which prevents severe developmental defects in the child.
8. It reduces the risk of anemia – because it contains iron, folates, and vitamin B9.
9. It helps with weight loss because, thanks to its high fiber content, you will feel full for a long time.
10. It is gluten-free, which makes it suitable for celiacs and anyone who does not benefit from gluten.

Give a cornmeal a chance and try to use it for Christmas cookies baking this year!