Festive Star Cookies
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Difficulty:
easy
Difficulty
Preparation:
50 min.
Preparation
ready in 1 hr 50 min.
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Ingredients
for
40
- For the dough
- ½ cup butter
- 0.333 cup light brown sugar
- 1 cup grated Dark chocolate (70% cocoa solids)
- 1 cup all-purpose flour (heaped)
- ¾ cup Corn starch
- ½ cup Almond flour
- cream (48% fat, as necessary)
- For the icing
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- water
- To decorate
- silver dragee
Preparation steps
1.
Beat the butter and sugar in a mixing bowl until light and fluffy.
2.
Mix the chocolate with the flour, cornflour and almonds and stir into the creamed mixture. Stir in a little cream if the mixture is too firm. Form into a ball, wrap in cling film and chillfor 1 hour.
3.
Heat the oven to 200°C (180° fan) 400°F gas 6. Line 2 large baking trays with non-stick baking paper.
4.
Roll out the dough between 2 sheets of non-stick baking paper to a thickness of approximately 4mm|1/4". Cut out stars, bells or other seasonal shapes.
5.
Make a small hole in each biscuit for the hanging ribbon and place on the baking trays. Bake for 15-20 minutes. Cool on the baking trays for a few minutes, then place on a wire rack to cool completely.
6.
For the icing: sift the icing sugar into a bowl and beat in just enough water to make a thick coating icing. Put the icing into a small piping bag and pipe designs on the biscuits.
7.
Decorate with silver dragees. Leave to set, then thread ribbons through the holes and tie to make hanging loops.
