Americans with sugar icing

Name: Americans with sugar icing
Cook time: 1 h 15 min
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: 15
Ingredients: 100 g soft butter or margarine; 100 g Sugar; 1 package Vanillin sugar; 1 pinch Salt; 2 Eggs (size M); 4 TABLESPOONS Milk; 200 g Flour; 1 package Pudding powder "Vanilla Flavor"; 3 TSP Baking Powder; 25 g flaked almonds; 100 g Milk chocolate; 25 g Pistachio kernels; 250 g Icing sugar; 3-4 Tbsp Lemon juice; 7-10 Tbsp sugar sprinkles; baking paper

AUTHOR
Jennie Fields

DIFFICULTY
very easy

RATING

COOK TIME
75 mins

TOTAL TIME
75 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 15

100 g soft butter or margarine
100 g Sugar
1 package Vanillin sugar
1 pinch Salt
2 Eggs (size M)
4 TABLESPOONS Milk
200 g Flour
1 package Pudding powder "Vanilla Flavor"
3 TSP Baking Powder
25 g flaked almonds
100 g Milk chocolate
25 g Pistachio kernels
250 g Icing sugar
3-4 Tbsp Lemon juice
7-10 Tbsp sugar sprinkles
baking paper

Directions

1
Cream fat, sugar, vanillin sugar and salt. Stir in the eggs one after the other. Add milk. Mix flour, pudding powder and baking powder and stir in. Pour the dough into a piping bag with a large perforated spout and spray approx. 15 tuffs (approx. 5-6 cm Ø) onto 2 baking trays lined with baking paper
2
Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 200 °C/ convection oven: 175 °C/ gas: see manufacturer) for approx. 12 minutes one after the other. Remove and let cool on a cake rack. Roast the flaked almonds in a pan without fat until golden brown. Take out and let it cool down. Finely chop 25 g chocolate and pistachios
3
Melt 75 g chocolate over a warm water bath. Mix icing sugar and lemon juice to a thick icing. Coat the flat side of the Americans with the icing. Coat 2-3 Americans only half with the icing, the other half with the melted chocolate. Sprinkle the rest of the Americans with either flaked almonds, chocolate, sugar sprinkles or pistachios. Allow to dry
4
waiting time approx. 2 hours