🍽️ Delicious Sweet Christmas Tree Decorations

Name: Delicious Sweet Christmas Tree Decorations
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 200 g wheat wholemeal flour; 200 g spelt flour (Type 630); 100 g ground hazelnut kernels; 125 g raw cane sugar; 0.5 tsp cream of tartar baking powder; 160 g margarine; 2 eggs; 1 egg white; 125 g icing sugar; 2 tsp cocoa powder (to taste); 50 g dried fruit (e.g. mango, raisins, cranberries); 50 g almond kernels and seeds (e.g. sunflower, pine, pistachio kernels)

53 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

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Ingredients

200 g wheat wholemeal flour
200 g spelt flour (Type 630)
100 g ground hazelnut kernels
125 g raw cane sugar
0.5 tsp cream of tartar baking powder
160 g margarine
2 eggs
1 egg white
125 g icing sugar
2 tsp cocoa powder (to taste)
50 g dried fruit (e.g. mango, raisins, cranberries)
50 g almond kernels and seeds (e.g. sunflower, pine, pistachio kernels)

Instructions

1. Put both types of flour, the nuts, the sugar, the baking powder, the margarine, and two eggs into a large mixing bowl.
2. Mix the ingredients with the dough hooks of a hand mixer until you have a crumbly dough.
3. Lightly dust your work surface with flour.
4. Place the dough on it and quickly knead it into a shortcrust pastry using your hands, keeping them as cool as possible.
5. Shape the dough into a ball and press it down slightly.
6. Wrap the dough ball in cling film.
7. Let the dough rest in the refrigerator for at least two hours.
8. Take the dough out of the refrigerator in portions.
9. Roll each portion on the floured work surface with a rolling pin to a thickness of about five millimeters.
10. Cut out the cookies into the desired shapes using cookie cutters.
11. Poke a small hole into each cookie using a toothpick or wooden skewer.
12. Line a baking tray with baking paper.
13. Arrange the cookies on the tray.
14. Preheat the oven to 175 degrees Celsius (160 degrees Celsius for fan-assisted or gas mark 2).
15. Bake the cookies for about eight to ten minutes.
16. Take the cookies out of the oven.
17. Let them cool completely on a wire rack.
18. Separate the remaining egg.
19. Put the egg white into a tall container.
20. Whip the egg white stiffly using the beaters of a hand mixer.
21. Stir the powdered sugar into the whipped egg white.
22. Color half of the sugar glaze with cocoa powder if you like.
23. Dice the larger dried fruit very finely.
24. Brush the cooled cookies with the sugar glaze.
25. Decorate the cookies as you like with almonds, seeds, and the finely diced dried fruit.
26. Let the decorated cookies dry completely.
27. If desired, thread thin ribbon loops through the holes.

Nutrition per serving

kcal: 53
Protein: 1 g · Fett/Fat: 2 g · Carbs: 6 g