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Little Christmas biscuits

These little chocolate biscuits are decorated with marzipan. They are ideal to accompany a festive dessert.

94 K 2× 4.3/5 (19 reviews)

2 hours 45 min. difficulté

Easy

2.30 €

20 biscuits

8 Ingredients

Last modified on: December 23^th 2012

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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: 500 grams

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Times for this recipe

Preparation: 30 min.

Resting: 2 hours

Cooking: 15 min.

All in all: 2 hours 45 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.

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.

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.

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 RDI=20 %	310 RDI=30 %	160 RDI=20 %	2,250 RDI=110 %	9,410 RDI: 110 %
Per 100 g	8 RDI=3 %	60 RDI=6 %	30 RDI=5 %	450 RDI=20 %	1,890 RDI: 20 %
Per biscuits	2 RDI=1 %	20 RDI=1 %	7 RDI=1 %	110 RDI=6 %	470 RDI: 6 %

The % figures are calculated in relation to the Recommended Dietary Intake , or RDI of 2,000 k-calories (or 8,400 k-joules) per 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 : 2.30 €
Per biscuits : 0.15 €

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The 2 comments already posted on this recipe

Thank you so much Louise, I wish you a merry Christmas too.
Posted by jh december 25^th 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 25^th 2012 at 07:13 n° 1

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