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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 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: 498 grams

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26 min.	2 hours	15 min.	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.

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

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
2,082 Kcal or 8,717 Kj	31 gr	246 gr	126 gr
104 %	12 %	23 %	19 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
418 Kcal or 1,750 Kj	6 gr	49 gr	25 gr
21 %	2 %	5 %	4 %

Per biscuits
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
104 Kcal or 435 Kj	2 gr	12 gr	6 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)

	Flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Sweet pastry, Fougasse with bacon and Comté, Two-olive ciabatta, Langoustine sabayon tart, Cigarettes Russes (Piroulines), ... All
	Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Cauliflower "moelleux" in ramekins, Fillet of pollack cooked in two stages, Welsh-style potato purée, Hamburger buns, Confit Victoria pineapple with honey and spices, ... All
	Icing sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Oat financiers for Louise, Croute à thé, Coconut "croute à thé", Sicilian Epiphany Pie, Saint Honoré cake, ... All
	Marzipan (almond paste): You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Agen prune cake, Provençal colombier for Pentecost, Arizona cupcakes, Fraisier (French strawberry cake), Piped petits-fours, ... All

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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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