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🍰 Honeycake Cookies

78 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

Ingredients

• 300 g wheat flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 100 g ground hazelnuts
• 125 g dried plums
• 2 tbsp cocoa powder
• 150 g liquid honey
• 1 egg
• 1 egg yolk
• 3 tsp gingerbread spice
• 1 egg (for brushing)
• whole peeled almond kernels
• 250 g powdered sugar
• food coloring

Instructions

1. 1. Mix the flour with the baking powder.
2. 2. Stir in the hazelnuts.
3. 3. Remove the pits from the dried plums.
4. 4. Puree the plums until smooth.
5. 5. Add the plum puree to the flour mixture.
6. 6. Add the cocoa powder.
7. 7. Add the honey.
8. 8. Add the whole egg.
9. 9. Add the egg yolk.
10. 10. Add the gingerbread spice.
11. 11. Use the dough hooks of your electric hand mixer to knead everything into a firm dough.
12. 12. Cover the dough.
13. 13. Let the dough rest overnight at room temperature.
14. 14. The next day, roll the dough out to about 1 cm thickness.
15. 15. Cut out shapes like moons or stars using cookie cutters.
16. 16. Place them on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
17. 17. Whisk one egg with 2 tablespoons of water.
18. 18. Brush the cookies with this mixture.
19. 19. Top them with almonds if you like.
20. 20. Preheat the oven.
21. 21. Bake the cookies at 180 degrees Celsius conventional heat or 160 degrees Celsius fan-forced for about 20 minutes.
22. 22. Remove them from the oven.
23. 23. Let the cookies cool down completely.
24. 24. Stir powdered sugar with 3 to 4 tablespoons of water until smooth.
25. 25. Divide the icing as desired.
26. 26. Mix small portions with a little food coloring of your choice until smooth.
27. 27. Fill the icing into small piping bags.
28. 28. Snip off the tips of the piping bags very slightly.
29. 29. Decorate or write on the cookies with the icing.
30. 30. Let the decorations dry.

Nutrition per serving

• kcal: 78
• Protein: 2 g · Fett/Fat: 2 g · Carbs: 13 g