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🍰 Chocolate Poppy Seed Stars

83 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

Ingredients

• 150 g Butter
• 60 g Cane sugar
• 1 pinch Cinnamon
• 1 Egg yolk
• 1 Vanilla pod
• 150 g Spelt flour
• 2 tbsp Poppy seeds (Plus additional poppy seeds for sprinkling)
• 100 g Couverture chocolate
• 1 tbsp Cocoa powder

Instructions

1. 1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius conventional heat (or 160 degrees Celsius fan-forced).
2. 2. Beat the butter, brown sugar, and egg yolk in a bowl until creamy.
3. 3. Slice the vanilla pod lengthwise and scrape out the seeds.
4. 4. Stir the vanilla seeds, cinnamon, flour, and poppy seeds into the dough.
5. 5. Remove two tablespoons of the light dough and stir in cocoa powder.
6. 6. Fill the remaining light dough into a piping bag fitted with a large star tip.
7. 7. Pipe star-shaped rosettes onto a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
8. 8. Fill the dark chocolate dough into a small piping bag with a round tip.
9. 9. Place a small dot of dark dough in the center of each poppy seed star.
10. 10. Sprinkle the cookies with poppy seeds.
11. 11. Bake the cookies for about 10 minutes until golden brown.
12. 12. Remove the cookies from the oven and let them cool completely on a wire rack.
13. 13. Melt the chocolate coating in a double boiler.
14. 14. Brush the cooled cookies on the edges with the melted chocolate.
15. 15. Let the chocolate dry in the air before serving the cookies.

Nutrition per serving

• kcal: 83
• Protein: 1 g · Fett/Fat: 5 g · Carbs: 8 g