Great Snowmen

Name: Great Snowmen
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 20
Ingredients: 150 g Butter; 75 g Sugar; 250 g Flour; 1 package Vanillin sugar; 75 g ground almonds with skin; 1 egg (size M); 150 g white couverture; 1-2 TEASPOONS Pistachio kernels; 2-3 TABLESPOONS Coconut scrapings; 7-10 Tbsp sugar beads/hearts; 7-10 Tbsp Flour; baking paper; 7-10 Tbsp One piping bag

AUTHOR
Benton Mccarty

DIFFICULTY
easy

RATING

COOK TIME
60 mins

TOTAL TIME
60 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 20

150 g Butter
75 g Sugar
250 g Flour
1 package Vanillin sugar
75 g ground almonds with skin
1 egg (size M)
150 g white couverture
1-2 TEASPOONS Pistachio kernels
2-3 TABLESPOONS Coconut scrapings
7-10 Tbsp sugar beads/hearts
7-10 Tbsp Flour
baking paper
7-10 Tbsp One piping bag

Directions

1
Knead the butter in pieces, sugar, flour, vanillin sugar, 50 g ground almonds and egg first with the dough hooks of the hand mixer, then with your hands to a smooth dough. Cover and chill for about 30 minutes. Roll out the dough on a floured work surface to a thickness of approx. 5 mm. Cut out snowmen (about 10 cm long). Put the biscuits on 2 baking trays lined with baking paper.
2
Bake one after the other in a preheated oven (electric cooker: 200 °C/ convection oven: 175 °C/ gas: level 3) for 10-15 minutes. Let them cool down. Chop the chocolate coating. Melt carefully on a warm water bath. Coarsely chop the pistachios. Pour the chocolate coating into a piping bag. Paint snowmen with it. Sprinkle with 25 g almonds and grated coconut. Decorate with pistachios and sugar pearls/hearts.
3
Coarsely chop the pistachios. Pour the chocolate coating into a piping bag. Paint snowmen with it. Sprinkle with 25 g almonds and grated coconut. Decorate with pistachios and sugar pearls/hearts. Leave to dry
4
1 hour waiting time