Gerhild's Mulled Wine Cookies

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Gerhild's Glühweinplätzchen ~ Mulled Wine Cookies

Wine cookies, traditional German Christmas cookies, use mulled wine, aka Glühwein, in the cookie as well as the icing. These wine cookies are really bar cookies, baked on a cookie sheet and then cut into squares. makes for easy baking.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup butter or margarine
• ½ cup granulated sugar
• 4 large eggs
• 2¼ cups flour, all-purpose
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• ⅓ pounds chocolate, grated
• ½ cup Glühwein
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 2 tablespoons Glühwein (for icing)

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease a rimmed cookie sheet.
2. Beat butter or margarine together with the sugar until creamy.
3. Add eggs, on at a time, mixing well.
4. Add flour, baking powder, chocolate, and Glühwein. Mix everything well.
5. Spread onto cookie sheet.
6. Back for 20 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
7. Let cool on wire rack.
8. For icing, mix together powdered sugar and just enough Glühwein until it is the proper spreading consistency. Brush over cooled "cookie".
9. Let icing set. Cut into bars (or traditional diamond shape) and serve.
10. If desired, dust with powdered sugar before serving.

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Make your own Glühwein

Glühwein (mulled wine) is a very traditional German drink, especially during the Christmas celebrations and can be purchased throughout Germany. 

Ingredients:

• 3 cups of a good dry red wine
• ½ cup water
• 3 to 4 tablespoons granulated sugar
• 3 cloves
• 2 cardamom pods
• ½ lemon, sliced
• 1 star anise
• 1 cinnamon stick

Instructions:

1. Put into pot, bring to simmer, cover, and reduce heat to just below simmering and leave for about 1 hour. 
2. Strain out the spices. It's ready to use. 

Notes/Hints:

• If you want non-alcoholic Glühwein, just let it boil briefly to evaporate the alcohol. The Glühwein gives a really nice flavor to these cookies as well as their icing.

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