Little Christmas biscuits


Little Christmas biscuits
These little chocolate biscuits are decorated with marzipan. They are ideal to accompany a festive dessert.
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Last modified on: December 23th 2012

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For 20 biscuits, you will need:

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26 min.2 hours15 min.2 hours 41 min.
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Step by step recipe


Stage 1 - 5 min.
Little Christmas biscuits
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.
Little Christmas biscuits
Knead on slow spead until evenly mixed.

Stage 3 - 2 hours
Little Christmas biscuits
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.

Stage 4 - 15 min.
Little Christmas biscuits
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.

Stage 5 - 3 min.
Little Christmas biscuits
Roll out the marzipan and cut out circles with a cutter.

Stage 6 - 3 min.
Little Christmas biscuits
Cut again across the middle to make the leaf shape.

Stage 7 - 5 min.
Little Christmas biscuits
Use a nozzle to create the spiny outline of holly leaves.

Stage 8 - 5 min.
Little Christmas biscuits
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.
Keeping
A few days in an aritight tin.
Source
Home made.
Nutritional information
Whole recipe
Energetic valueProteins CarbohydratesFats
2,082 Kcal or 8,717 Kj31 gr246 gr126 gr
104 %12 %23 %19 %
Per 100 g
Energetic valueProteins CarbohydratesFats
418 Kcal or 1,750 Kj6 gr49 gr25 gr
21 %2 %5 %4 %
Per biscuits
Energetic valueProteins CarbohydratesFats
104 Kcal or 435 Kj2 gr12 gr6 gr
5 %1 %1 %1 %
% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).
Possible allergens in this recipe: Gluten, Milk, Egg, Nuts
How much will it cost?
  • For 20 biscuits : 2.26 €
  • Per biscuits : 0.11 €

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This recipe uses (among others)
FlourFlour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Red mullet fillets with a reduced white-wine sauce, Chocolate and matcha tea biscuits, Provençal colombier for Pentecost, Génoise (Genoa sponge), Shortcrust pastry (pâte brisée), ... All
ButterButter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Citrus tart, Dublin fruit scones, Spinach on toast with bechamel, Surprise bread, Caribbean upside-down cake, ... All
Icing sugarIcing sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Coconut paste, Financier batter, Walnut short bread, Arlesian Biscuits, Jam doughnuts, ... All
Marzipan (almond paste)Marzipan (almond paste): You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: How to make marzipan decorations, Piped petits-fours, Agen prune cake, Provençal colombier for Pentecost, Arizona cupcakes, ... All
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  • Thank you so much Louise, I wish you a merry Christmas too.
    Posted by jh december 25th 2012 at 17:30 (n° 2)
  • Merry Christmas jh. Your biscuits are simply darling. Thank you so much for sharing. Wishing you and your family a very Merry Christmas. Louise
    Posted by Louise december 25th 2012 at 07:13 (n° 1)
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