Cinnamon Chocolate Stars

Name: Cinnamon Chocolate Stars
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 50
Ingredients: 40 g Cocoa powder; 250 g Flour; 1/2 TEASPOON Baking Powder; 2-3 TEASPOONS ground cinnamon; 125 g soft butter or margarine; 1 egg (size M); 75 g Icing sugar; 1 package Vanillin sugar; 15 brown almonds with skin (approx. 15-20 g); 100 g Whole milk couverture; 7-10 Tbsp Cling film; 7-10 Tbsp Flour; baking paper

AUTHOR
Pat Ware

DIFFICULTY
easy

RATING

COOK TIME
60 mins

TOTAL TIME
60 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 50

40 g Cocoa powder
250 g Flour
1/2 TEASPOON Baking Powder
2-3 TEASPOONS ground cinnamon
125 g soft butter or margarine
1 egg (size M)
75 g Icing sugar
1 package Vanillin sugar
15 brown almonds with skin (approx. 15-20 g)
100 g Whole milk couverture
7-10 Tbsp Cling film
7-10 Tbsp Flour
baking paper

Directions

1
Mix cocoa powder, flour, baking powder and cinnamon and pass through a sieve. Cream soft fat. Stir in the egg first, then the icing sugar and vanillin sugar. Add the flour mixture and knead into the fat mixture with the dough hooks of the hand mixer. Press the dough flat, wrap in cling film and refrigerate for about 1 hour. In the meantime, briefly boil the almonds in a little water, rinse with cold water and remove the skin from the seeds. Halve the almond kernels.
2
Roll out the dough thinly on a floured work surface and cut out stars of different sizes (from 5-8 cm Ø). Spread on 2-3 baking trays lined with baking paper. Bake one after the other in a preheated oven (electric: 175 °C/ gas: level 2) for 8-10 minutes. Let them cool down. In the meantime, chop the chocolate coating and melt it on a hot water bath, then let it cool down again and put on a little. Then decorate each star with a brush stroke of couverture. Put half an almond on top