Fig-Lime Thaler

AUTHOR
Kelli Murphy
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
3 3
COOK TIME
60 mins
TOTAL TIME
60 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 40
  • 250 g Butter
  • 1 package Vanillin sugar
  • 200 g Icing sugar
  • 300 g Flour
  • 3 Eggs (size M)
  • 2 Limes
  • 100 g dried figs
  • 2-3 TABLESPOONS Whipped cream
  • 7-10 Tbsp green food coloring
  • 75 g white couverture
  • 7-10 Tbsp green and white decorative sugar
  • baking paper
  • 7-10 Tbsp One piping bag or freezer bag

Directions

  1. 1

    Whisk butter, vanilla sugar and icing sugar with a whisk of the hand mixer until white and creamy. Sift the flour into a bowl. Alternately stir in eggs and flour. Wash the limes hot and grate them dry. Tear off the zest of one lime with a zest ripper and set aside. Rub the zest off the other lime.

  2. 2

    Halve the limes and squeeze the juice. Cut figs into pieces and chop them. Stir the grated lemon peel, juice and figs into the dough. Pour the mixture into a piping bag. Line 2 baking trays with baking paper and spray the dough in portions in lines (4-5 cm long, approx. 0.5 cm wide). Leave a distance of 3-4 cm between each line. Bake in the preheated oven (electric oven: 200 °C/ convection oven: 175 °C/ gas: level 3) one after the other for 5-7 minutes until the edge is golden brown. Remove and let cool off. Colour the cream with food colouring as desired. Melt the couverture and cream over a warm water bath and place in a small piping bag or freezer bag. Cut off a small corner.

  3. 3

    Leave a distance of 3-4 cm between each line. Bake in the preheated oven (electric oven: 200 °C/ convection oven: 175 °C/ gas: level 3) one after the other for 5-7 minutes until the edge is golden brown. Remove and let cool off. Colour the cream with food colouring as desired. Melt the couverture and cream over a warm water bath and place in a small piping bag or freezer bag. Cut off a small corner. Decorate one half of each biscuit with the chocolate coating, sprinkle with decorative sugar and allow to set. Decorate the biscuits with the remaining lime zests

  4. 4

    1 hour waiting time

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
120 kcal
CARBS
13 g
FATS
7 g
PROTEINS
2 g