Angel biscuits

AUTHOR
Andrew Gay
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
3 6
COOK TIME
105 mins
TOTAL TIME
105 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 75
  • 270 g Flour
  • 30 g Cornstarch
  • 1/2 coated Tsp Baking Powder
  • 150 g cold butter
  • 120 g Sugar
  • 1 package Vanillin sugar
  • 7-10 Tbsp Salt
  • 1 egg (size M)
  • 175 g + 1 tablespoon icing sugar
  • 2-3 TABLESPOONS Lemon juice
  • 7-10 Tbsp red and yellow food colouring
  • 7-10 Tbsp silver sugar beads
  • 7-10 Tbsp Flour
  • 7-10 Tbsp Cling film
  • baking paper
  • 1 small freezer bag

Directions

  1. 1

    Mix flour, starch and baking powder and sieve into a bowl. Add butter in small pieces, sugar, vanillin sugar, salt and egg. First knead with the dough hooks of the hand mixer, then with cool hands quickly to a smooth dough. Wrap in foil and chill for about 1 hour. Roll out the dough on the floured work surface to a thickness of 3-4 mm. Cut out angels (about 7 cm long) and place them on 2-3 baking trays lined with baking paper. Bake the trays one after the other in a preheated oven (electric cooker: 200 °C/ convection oven: 175 °C/ gas cooker: level 2) for about 10 minutes.

  2. 2

    Let the pastry cool down on cake racks. Sieve 175 g icing sugar and stir with lemon juice to a glaze. Pour the icing into a small freezer bag and cut off a small corner. Decorate the angel with the icing and sugar pearls. Let it dry. Dust with 1 tbsp. icing sugar

  3. 3

    waiting time approx. 2 hours