Little Christmas biscuits


Little Christmas biscuits
These little chocolate biscuits are decorated with marzipan. They are ideal to accompany a festive dessert.
92 K 4.3/5 (19 reviews)
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Last modified on: December 23th 2012
For 20 biscuits, you will need:

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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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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
Proteins (gr)Carbohydrates (gr)Fats (gr)Energy value (in k-calories)Energy value (in k-joules)
Whole recipe40 RDI=20 %310 RDI=30 %160 RDI=20 %2,250 RDI=110 %9,410 RDI: 110 %
Per 100 g8 RDI=3 %60 RDI=6 %30 RDI=5 %450 RDI=20 %1,890 RDI: 20 %
Per biscuits2 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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  • 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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