Little Christmas biscuits

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

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

Times:

Preparation	Resting	Cooking	Start to finish
30 min.	2 hours	15 min.	2 hours 45 min.

Step by step recipe

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.
2	Knead on slow spead until evenly mixed.
3	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.
4	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.
5	Roll out the marzipan and cut out circles with a cutter.
6	Cut again across the middle to make the leaf shape.
7	Use a nozzle to create the spiny outline of holly leaves.
8	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.

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