Glowing Christmas tree balls

COOK TIME
120 mins

TOTAL TIME
120 mins

Ingredients

Directions

1. 1

   Prepare a shortcrust pastry from flour, sugar, 1 pinch of salt, baking cocoa, egg and butter: First knead it into coarse crumbs with the dough hooks of the mixer. Then knead very quickly with your hands in the bowl or on the work surface to a smooth dough.

2. 2

   Caution: If the dough is kneaded too long, the gluten (gluten protein in the flour) forms a skeleton. This is not desired in short pastry, as it makes the pastry tough. Form the dough into a ball, wrap in foil and chill for approx. 45 minutes.

3. 3

   Cut out a template (approx. 6 cm Ø) from cardboard in the shape of a Christmas ball. Preheat the oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/circulating air: 150 °C/gas: see manufacturer). Line two baking trays with baking paper.

4. 4

   Roll out the dough on some flour or between two layers of baking paper 3-4 mm thin. Cut out cookies using the template. Cut mini holes for ribbons out of the cookies using a small punched spout. Cut out mini circles and stars with cutters.

5. 5

   Knead dough residues again and again briefly, cool if necessary, roll out and cut out.

6. 6

   Put cookies on the trays. Pre-bake in the hot oven for about 12 minutes. In the meantime, chop the sweets separately by colour in the universal chopper. Take the cookies out of the oven.

7. 7

   Put chopped candy into the cut out circles and stars. Continue baking at the same temperature for about 4 minutes. Remove and let cool for about 5 minutes. Pull the paper from the tray and let it cool down.

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
45 kcal

CARBS
7 g

FATS
3 g

PROTEINS
1 g