Santa Claus Stars

Name: Santa Claus Stars
Cook time: 1 h 45 min
Total time: 1 h 45 min
Yield: 9
Ingredients: 250 g Flour; 1 knife tip Baking Powder; 50 g ground hazelnuts; 1 TABLESPOON Gingerbread spice; 7-10 Tbsp grated rind of 1/2 untreated lemon; 100 g Sugar; 1 egg (size M); 125 g Butter or margarine; 130 g Icing sugar; 100 g Marzipan raw mass; 7-10 Tbsp a few drops of yellow and red food colouring; 1 1/2 TABLESPOONS Lemon juice; 7-10 Tbsp small and large colourful sugar beads; 7-10 Tbsp Flour and icing sugar; baking paper; 1 small freezer bag

AUTHOR
Diane Archer

DIFFICULTY
easy

RATING

COOK TIME
105 mins

TOTAL TIME
105 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 9

250 g Flour
1 knife tip Baking Powder
50 g ground hazelnuts
1 TABLESPOON Gingerbread spice
7-10 Tbsp grated rind of 1/2 untreated lemon
100 g Sugar
1 egg (size M)
125 g Butter or margarine
130 g Icing sugar
100 g Marzipan raw mass
7-10 Tbsp a few drops of yellow and red food colouring
1 1/2 TABLESPOONS Lemon juice
7-10 Tbsp small and large colourful sugar beads
7-10 Tbsp Flour and icing sugar
baking paper
1 small freezer bag

Directions

1
Put flour, baking powder, hazelnuts, gingerbread spice, grated lemon peel, sugar and egg in a bowl. Spread the fat in flakes on top and knead everything with the dough hooks of the hand mixer.
2
With cool hands quickly work into a smooth short pastry. Cover and chill for approx. 1 hour. Pass the icing sugar through a sieve. Knead marzipan and 30 g icing sugar and divide into three parts. Leave one part white, the other pieces yellow and red.
3
Knead the short pastry again and roll out 3-4 mm thin on a floured work surface. Cut out 18 stars with a star shape (approx. 8 cm Ø). Spread on 2 baking trays lined with baking paper and bake in the preheated oven (electric oven: 200 °C/ gas: level 3) one after the other for approx. 15 minutes.
4
Let it cool down. Roll out the marzipan pieces thinly on icing sugar and cut them out with cookie cutters (face 3-3.5 cm Ø, beard approx. 4 cm Ø, caps with the star shape). Cut out small stars from the remaining marzipan as desired.
5
Mix the remaining icing sugar and lemon juice to a firm glaze. Put it into the freezer bag and cut off a small corner. Stick faces, beards, caps and sugar beads with the icing on half of the stars and spray moustaches on the faces.
6
Spray the rest of the casting as two thick blobs (feet) on the remaining stars. Cut off two adjacent teeth of each star a little bit and press the stars into the cast and possibly support them from behind.
7
Sprinkle the feet with small sugar pearls and let them dry for 20-30 minutes. Results in 9 Santa Claus stars.