Nut cookies (stars, hearts, fir trees)
very easy
120 mins
120 mins
Ingredients
- 400 g Flour
- 125 g mixed hazelnuts
- 190 g Sugar
- 1 package Vanillin sugar
- 1 pinch Salt
- 250 g Butter
- 1 egg (size M)
- 1 Protein (size M)
- 200 g Icing sugar
- 1 TEASPOON Lemon juice
- 30 g Hazelnut kernels
- 7-10 Tbsp colourful sugar pearls
- 7-10 Tbsp Flour
- 7-10 Tbsp Cling film
- 7-10 Tbsp Paper piping bags
- baking paper
Directions
- 1
Mix flour, ground hazelnuts, sugar, vanillin sugar and salt in a bowl. Spread butter in small pieces on top, add egg. Knead everything first with the dough hooks of the hand mixer, then with cool hands to a smooth short pastry.
- 2
Form dough into a ball, press flat, wrap in foil and chill for about 2 hours.
- 3
Roll out the dough in small portions about 3 mm thick on a floured work surface. Cut out stars, hearts or fir trees as desired (stars 6-6.5 cm Ø, hearts: 5 cm Ø, fir trees: 7 cm length).
- 4
Knead, roll out and cut out the dough again and again. Place figures on 4-5 baking trays covered with baking paper. Bake the figures in a preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: see manufacturer) for approx. 10 minutes.
- 5
Remove the cookies and let them cool down on a cake rack.
- 6
Place the egg whites, icing sugar and lemon juice in a mixing bowl and whisk with the whisk of the hand mixer until a thick icing is formed. Pour the icing in portions into small paper piping bags.
- 7
Decorate cooled cookies with the icing. Cut hazelnuts into thin slices and decorate some fir trees with them. Decorate some hearts with colourful sugar pearls. Let the icing dry.
- 8
For storage, layer the cookies with baking paper in tins.
Nutrition Facts
70 kcal
8 g
3 g
1 g
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