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🍰 Marzipan Towers with Apricots

330 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

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Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1. Separate the egg. Use the egg white for another purpose.
  2. 2. Finely chop the dried apricots.
  3. 3. Put flour, cubed butter, sugar, salt, the egg yolk, and nutmeg into a bowl.
  4. 4. Knead the ingredients with 4 to 5 tablespoons of cold water into a smooth dough.
  5. 5. Knead the chopped apricots into the dough at the end.
  6. 6. Wrap the dough in cling film.
  7. 7. Store the dough in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes.
  8. 8. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius with top and bottom heat.
  9. 9. Sprinkle some flour on the work surface.
  10. 10. Roll out the dough in portions to about 3 millimeters thick.
  11. 11. Cut out circles about 3 cm in diameter using a cookie cutter.
  12. 12. Place the dough circles on trays lined with baking paper.
  13. 13. Bake the cookies in the oven for about 12 to 14 minutes until light.
  14. 14. Let the cookies cool down afterwards.
  15. 15. Sift powdered sugar onto the work surface.
  16. 16. Knead the marzipan base with the powdered sugar.
  17. 17. Roll out the marzipan mixture thinly.
  18. 18. Cut out about 50 stars with a diameter of 2.5 cm.
  19. 19. Warm the jam slightly in a pot.
  20. 20. Stir 1 tablespoon of water into the jam until smooth.
  21. 21. Pass the jam through a sieve.
  22. 22. Fill ¾ of the jam into a freezer bag.
  23. 23. Cut off a small corner of the freezer bag.
  24. 24. Pipe the jam onto the cooled cookies.
  25. 25. Place two cookies on top of each other.
  26. 26. Place a marzipan star on the top cookie.
  27. 27. Brush the marzipan stars thinly with the remaining jam.

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