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Preparation	Resting	Cooking	Start to finish
1 hour 5 min.	2 hours	30 min.	3 hours 35 min.

Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

Put into a food-precessor bowl: 125 g flour, 50 g icing sugar, 100 g butter cut into small pieces, 1 egg, 1 pinch fine (or table) salt, 5 drops food colouring, and the juice and zest of 1 lime.

Stage 2 - 5 min.

Knead on slow speed until evenly mixed.

Stage 3 - 5 min.

Tip the dough out onto a sheet of stretch plastic film.

Stage 4 - 2 hours

Fold the film over and press the dough into a flat cake.

Refrigerate for 2 hours.

This cooling time is essential as the dough is very soft at room temperature. The time in the fridge will firm up the dough.

Stage 5 - 5 min.

After this time, roll out the dough with a rolling pin to just under 1 cm (0.4 inch) thick.

Stage 6 - 5 min.

Now comes the tricky momnt: cutting out the "alien" shapes. I used a calisson cutter for the pointed end.

Stage 7 - 5 min.

Then I cut the top of the head using a normal round cutter.

But you can cut them out perfectly well with a small knife.

Stage 8 - 5 min.

Shape the rounded part if necessary by pushing around the edge with your finger.

Stage 9 - 5 min.

Make the eyes with 2 whole almonds, the pointed end towards the centre. Press them lightly into the dough to make them stick.

Stage 10 - 20 min.

Use up all the dough like this, placing the cookies on a baking sheet as you go.

Preheat the oven to 180°C (360°F).

Stage 11 - 5 min.

Put the offcuts onto a baking heet, shaped or not. Here I've made Star Trek logos (yes, I know, this is an American TV series recipe...).

Stage 12 - 30 min.

Bake for around 30 minutes. Watch carefully for colouring towards the end of the cooking time to keep the lovely green colour. So don't overcook them.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
1,692 Kcal or 7,084 Kj	25 gr	158 gr	107 gr
85 %	10 %	15 %	16 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
364 Kcal or 1,524 Kj	5 gr	34 gr	23 gr
18 %	2 %	3 %	3 %

Per cookies
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
85 Kcal or 356 Kj	1 gr	8 gr	5 gr
4 %	<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).

This recipe uses (among others)

	Flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Gâteau Basque , Fillets of sole meunière, Cherry clafoutis, Coq au vin, Langoustine sabayon tart, ... All
	Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Clarified butter, Elsa's Comtoise galette, Rolls of fish in smoked ham, Flaky brownie brioche, Green beans with tomatoes, ... All
	Icing sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Armagnac marzipan, Stuffed prunes, Croute à thé, Gâteau Nantais, Walnut paste, ... All
	Whole almonds: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Praline rochers, Praline, Tomato pesto, Grandma Solange's biscuits, Chocolate Truffles, ... All

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