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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

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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Time required

Preparation	Resting	Cooking	Start to finish
26 min.	2 hours	15 min.	2 hours 41 min.

Keeping:

A few days in an aritight tin

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

Little Christmas biscuits : Photo of step #1

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.

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Knead on slow spead until evenly mixed.

Stage 3 - 2 hours

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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.

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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.

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Roll out the marzipan and cut out circles with a cutter.

Stage 6 - 3 min.

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Cut again across the middle to make the leaf shape.

Stage 7 - 5 min.

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Use a nozzle to create the spiny outline of holly leaves.

Stage 8 - 5 min.

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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.

Nutritional information

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 20 biscuits : 2.26 €
Per biscuits : 0.11 €

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Source

Home made.

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	Icing sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Coconut tuiles, Millefeuille, Tarte Normande, Rich hazelnut buttercream, Gâteau Nantais, ... All
	Marzipan (almond paste): You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: How to make marzipan decorations, Agen prune cake, Provençal colombier for Pentecost, Fraisier (French strawberry cake), Piped petits-fours, ... All

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Your 2 comments or questions on this recipe

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)
Thank you so much Louise, I wish you a merry Christmas too.
Posted by jh december 25^th 2012 at 17:30 (n° 2)

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