Thai ginger biscuits

AUTHOR
Rachel Vazquez
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
4 2
COOK TIME
105 mins
TOTAL TIME
105 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 40
  • 50 g Sesame seeds
  • 1 untreated lemon
  • 200 g Butter
  • 200 g + 2 tablespoons icing sugar
  • 1 egg (size M)
  • 1 pinch Salt
  • 2 TEASPOONS Sesame Oil
  • 2 TABLESPOONS Honey
  • 400 g Flour
  • 200 g Ginger Jam
  • 7-10 Tbsp Flour
  • 7-10 Tbsp Cling film
  • baking paper

Directions

  1. 1

    Roast sesame seeds in a pan without fat until golden brown, remove. Wash the lemon, grate dry and finely grate the peel. Quickly knead sesame, lemon zest, butter in flakes, 100 g icing sugar, egg, salt, sesame oil, honey and flour with the dough hooks of the hand mixer to a smooth dough. Wrap dough in foil and chill for about 30 minutes. Roll out the dough thinly (approx. 3 mm) on a floured surface and cut out approx. 80 squares (6 x 6 cm).

  2. 2

    Cut out small Christmas motifs (e.g. star, heart, shooting star etc.) from half of the squares again. Place the squares on 4 baking trays lined with baking paper. Bake the trays one after the other in a preheated oven (electric cooker: 200 °C/ convection oven: 175 °C/ gas: level 3) for 6-8 minutes. Remove cookies from the oven and let them cool down on a cake rack. Halve the lemon and squeeze the juice. Mix 100 g icing sugar and 1-2 tablespoons lemon juice to a glaze. Pour into a freezer bag, cut off a small corner. Draw stripes over the cookies with cut-out Christmas motifs. Warm up the jam.

  3. 3

    Mix 100 g icing sugar and 1-2 tablespoons lemon juice to a glaze. Pour into a freezer bag, cut off a small corner. Draw stripes over the cookies with cut-out Christmas motifs. Warm up the jam. Spread the remaining biscuits with jam. Place cookies with icing on top. Dust with 2 tablespoons of icing sugar

  4. 4

    Waiting time approx. 1 hour

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
120 kcal
CARBS
17 g
FATS
5 g
PROTEINS
1 g

Categories & Tags

MiscellaneousexoticChristmas