A taste of Christmas
Recipe for homemade biscuits
"Now Christmas cookies are a special treat. The more she bakes, the more I eat. And sometimes I can't get myself to stop. Sometimes she'll wait until I'm asleep. And she'll take the ones I didn't eat. And put those sprinkly things on top …"
There are so many different biscuit recipes to choose from - but as far as we're concerned, Vanilla Crescents and Linzer Eyes are an absolute must during the festive period. You might want to try out these delicious recipes.
Ingredients for vanilla crescent cookies
250 g plain flour
70 g icing sugar
200 g margarine
100 g ground hazelnuts or almonds
Vanilla sugar
Preparation: Knead the margarine, icing sugar, and hazelnuts into a dough. Wrap it in plastic and allow to rest in a cool place. Preheat the oven to 180°C. Cut off walnut-sized pieces of dough and shape them into little crescent forms. Place on a baking tray lined with baking paper and bake for approx. 15 minutes. Put the finished vanilla crescents on a wire rack and sprinkle with icing and vanilla sugar while they are still warm.
Ingredients for Linzer Eyes:
50 g castor sugar
100 g butter
150 g plain flour
Jam (redcurrant or cranberry)
1 dessert spoon rum
1 egg yolk and vanilla sugar
Preparation: Quickly mix the butter, icing sugar, and egg yolk into a shortcrust pastry. Allow the finished dough to rest for two hours. Preheat the oven to 170 ºC. Roll out the dough on a floured work surface.
Cut out round biscuits with a cookie cutter, pierce three holes in half of the finished rounds. Bake the cookies for ca. 10 minutes. Stir some rum into the jam. Spread jam onto the cookies without the holes. Sprinkle a little icing sugar onto the underside of the cookies with holes and put them on top of the jam-coated halves.
You can also cut different shapes out of the Linzer Eye mixture and decorate them with chocolate and sweet sprinkles.
Have fun baking!
