Almond Stars

Name: Almond Stars
Cook time: 1 h 15 min
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: 45
Ingredients: 125 g whole almonds with skin; 1 egg (size M); 275 g Flour; 140 g Icing sugar; 1 pinch Salt; 150 g Butter or margarine; 1 package (6 g) fine orange fruit; 1 knife tip ground ginger; 50 g flaked almonds; 7-10 Tbsp Flour; baking paper

AUTHOR
Jennie Fields

DIFFICULTY
easy

RATING

COOK TIME
75 mins

TOTAL TIME
75 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 45

125 g whole almonds with skin
1 egg (size M)
275 g Flour
140 g Icing sugar
1 pinch Salt
150 g Butter or margarine
1 package (6 g) fine orange fruit
1 knife tip ground ginger
50 g flaked almonds
7-10 Tbsp Flour
baking paper

Directions

1
Roast the almonds in a pan without fat until golden brown. Take them out, let them cool down and grind them finely in a universal chopper. Separate the egg. Put flour, 50 g icing sugar, salt, fat in flakes, ground almonds, fine orange fruit, ginger and egg yolk into a mixing bowl and work thoroughly with the dough hooks of the hand mixer. With cool hands quickly knead to a smooth dough. Cover the dough and put it in a cool place for about 1 hour. Roll out to a thickness of approx. 3 mm on a lightly floured work surface and cut out stars with a cookie cutter.
2
Place on two baking trays lined with baking paper. Pass 75 g icing sugar through a sieve. Beat the egg white with the whisk of the hand mixer until stiff. Add icing sugar bit by bit. Brush the stars with egg white icing and sprinkle with the flaked almonds. Bake the cookies one after the other in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ gas: level 2) for 18-20 minutes. Let the cookies cool down on a cake rack and sprinkle with the remaining icing sugar