This month I am doing a series on Advent and preparing ourselves for Christmas. You can find more info on the series here. Come and join us for a month of getting ready and waiting!
This year I had quite a bit of time on my hand (this is what you do after graduating from university, haha), and so I could experiment with recipes a bit. These pictures should not make you jealous or hungry, but rather inspire you to bake some deliciousness of your own?
Cognac Cookies
(all measurements in grams and celcius – it’s a good exercise for the Americans 🙂 and yields about 50 finished cookies)
for the dough:
200 g flour
125 g butter (cold)
1 egg
75 g sugar
1 lemon, peel
for the filling:
100 g butter
100 g powder sugar
1 egg yolk
1-2 table spoons cognac
50 g ground almonds
decoration:
200g chocolate
75 g almond slivers
Instructions:
mix dough ingredients until well combined and cool for 1 hour
preheat oven to 175°C
roll out dough and use cookie form (stars, hearts, whatever form you like or have) to cut out individual cookies
bake cookies for ca. 10 minutes, let them cool
mix filling ingredients until you get a creamy filling
take two cookies, brush one cookie with the filling, and put other cookie on top
melt chocolate in hot water bath and brush cookies with it, decorate with almond slivers
What are your favorite Christmas cookie recipes?
Cognac Plätzchen
für den Teig:
200g Mehl
125 Butter
1 Ei
75 g Zucker
1 Zitronenschale
für die Füllung:
100g Butter
100g Puderzucker
1 Eigelb
1-2 EL Cognac
50 g gemahlene Mandeln
zum Verzieren:
1 Tafel Schokolade/Konfitüre
75 g gestiftelte Mandeln
aus den Zutaten einen Teig machen und ca. 1 Stunde kühlen lassen
Ofen auf 175°C vorheizen
Teig ausrollen und Plätzchen ausstechen
diese ca. 10 Minuten backen, dann kühlen lassen
aus den Zutaten eine Creme herstellen, jeweils zwei Plätzchen damit bestreichen und zusammenkleben
Schokolade im Wasserbad schmelzen, Plätzchen damit einpinseln und mit Mandelstiften verzieren
Was sind deine Lieblingsplätzchenrezepte?
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