Little Christmas biscuits
These little chocolate biscuits are decorated with marzipan. They are ideal to accompany a festive dessert.
Last modified on: December 23th 2012
Keywords for this recipe:For 20 biscuits, you will need:
- 1
150 g flour - 2
30 g powdered cocoa - 3
120 g butter - 4
80 g icing sugar - 5
1 Egg - 6
½ teaspoon baking powder - 7
50 g Marzipan (almond paste) - 8 1 tablespoon icing sugar
- Total weight: 498 grams
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Times for this recipe
Preparation: 26 min.
Resting: 2 hours
Cooking: 15 min.
All in all: 2 hours 41 min.
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Step by step recipe
Stage 1 - 5 min.
Put into a food-processor bowl: 150 g flour, 30 g powdered cocoa, 120 g butter, 80 g icing sugar, 1 Egg and ½ teaspoon baking powder.
Stage 2 - 5 min.
Knead on slow spead until evenly mixed.
Stage 3 - 2 hours
Gather the dough into a "cake", wrap in plastic film and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
You can prepare the dough the day before you use it.
You can prepare the dough the day before you use it.
Stage 4 - 15 min.
Preheat the oven to 360°F (180°C).
Roll out the dough to about ½ cm ( ¼ inch) thick, cut into small lozenge shapes and arrange on a baking sheet.
Bake for about 15 minutes.
Roll out the dough to about ½ cm ( ¼ inch) thick, cut into small lozenge shapes and arrange on a baking sheet.
Bake for about 15 minutes.
Stage 5 - 3 min.
Roll out the marzipan and cut out circles with a cutter.
Stage 6 - 3 min.
Cut again across the middle to make the leaf shape.
Stage 7 - 5 min.
Use a nozzle to create the spiny outline of holly leaves.
Stage 8 - 5 min.
Arrange 1 or 2 leaves on each biscuit (depending on their size), add small red sweets for berries and dust with a little icing sugar.
Remarks
For more detailed instructions on working with marzipan, you can see how to make marzipan decorations.
You can stick the holly leaves and berries with a little jam.
If you don't have any red sweets, you might have a few red currants in the freezer.
You can stick the holly leaves and berries with a little jam.
If you don't have any red sweets, you might have a few red currants in the freezer.
Keeping: A few days in an aritight tin.
Source: Home made.
Nutritional information
| Proteins (gr) | Carbohydrates (gr) | Fats (gr) | Energy value (in k-calories) | Energy value (in k-joules) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whole recipe | 40 20 % | 310 30 % | 160 20 % | 2,250 110 % | 9,410 110 % |
| Per 100 g | 8 3 % | 60 6 % | 30 5 % | 450 20 % | 1,890 20 % |
| Per biscuits | 2 1 % | 20 1 % | 7 1 % | 110 6 % | 470 6 % |
How much will it cost?
- For 20 biscuits : 2.26 €
- Per biscuits : 0.11 €
Note: Be careful, these prices are only an estimate, you can consult the table of prices by ingredients used for this estimate.
This recipe uses (among others)
Flour
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Butter
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Icing sugar
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Marzipan (almond paste)
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