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Little Christmas biscuits
These little chocolate biscuits are decorated with marzipan. They are ideal to accompany a festive dessert.
Last modified on: December 23th 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: 500 grams
Times for this recipe
Preparation
30 min.
Resting
2 hours
Cooking
15 min.
All in all
2 hours 45 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.
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.
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.
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.
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Nutritional information
| Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats | Calories | Energy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Per 100 g | 8 g RDI=9 % | 61 g RDI=17 % | 31 g RDI=32 % | 451 kcal RDI=17 % | 1,891 kJ RDI=17 % |
| Per biscuits | 2 g RDI=2 % | 15 g RDI=4 % | 7 g RDI=8 % | 112 kcal RDI=4 % | 470 kJ RDI=4 % |
| Whole recipe | 41 g RDI=47 % | 307 g RDI=86 % | 155 g RDI=157 % | 2,247 kcal RDI=83 % | 9,408 kJ RDI=83 % |
How much will it cost?
For 20 biscuits
2.30 €
Per biscuits
0.15 €
Note: Be careful, these prices are only an estimate, you can consult the table of prices by ingredients used for this estimate.
This recipe uses (among others)
Flour
Icing sugar
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