Gerhild's Mulled Wine Cookies ❤️

Gerhild's Glühweinplätzchen ~ Mulled Wine Cookies

Ingredients:

• 1 cup butter or margarine
• ½ cup granulated sugar
• 4 eggs
• 2¼ cups flour, all-purpose
• 2 tsp baking powder
• ⅓ lb chocolate, grated
• ½ cup Glühwein
• 1 cup icing sugar
• 2 tbsp Glühwein (for icing)

Instructions:

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

Make your own Glühwein

Ingredients:

• 3 cups of a dry red wine
• ½ cup water
• 3 to 4 tbsp 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. 

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.