Gingerbread House
Merry Christmas and a happy new year!
OUR GINGERBREAD HOUSE
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Olive Tomato Biscuits
Now that we had so much “sweets”… It’s now time for something “salty”…
These biscuits go with wine and beer or just for nibbling. 🙂 My sis’s and bro’s would say “ti gajak”… 🙂
Our children love them too. Also good for “in between”, picnics or snack for school.
Olive Tomato Biscuits
Gericht:
Biscuits and Cookies
Zutaten
- 50 g olives
- 50 dried tomatoes in oil
- 50 g cheese
- 125 g butter softened
- 2 eggs
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 pinch pepper
- 2 tbsp milk
- 250 g flour
Anleitungen
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Chop olives and tomatoes. Grate cheese.
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Whisk softened butter.
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Beat 2 eggs, remove 3 tablespoon and put aside (to brush). Mix rest of beaten egg to butter.
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Mix olives, tomatoes, cheese, salt, pepper and milk to egg-butter mixture, add flour and knead with hands to a dough.
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Place in fridge for 1 hour.
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Roll out on a floured surface and cut out shapes you fancy. Put on baking tray with baking paper and brush with remaining egg.
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Bake in preheated oven at 210° C for about 12 minutes.
Enjoy baking!
Maggi & Family
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This is the best Gingerbread ever!!
For us it is a must to bake these gingerbread for christmas.
Often it is the problem, that the gingerbread get hard. But not with this one. The dough has to be prepared and stored for two weeks before baking.
You can also build a gingerbread house!
More Christmas Cookie recipes:
Vanilla Crescent Cookies
Coconut Sticks
Linz “Eye“ Cookies
Schneekrapferl EN
Gingerbread
Gericht:
Biscuits and Cookies
Zutaten
- 310 g flour
- 250 g rye flour
- 500 g brown sugar
- 1/2 Tbls bicarbonate of soda
- 1,5 sachet gingerbread spice (22g)
- 4 eggs
- 100 g honey
To Finish
- 1 egg to brush
- almonds to decorate
Anleitungen
Gingerbread dough
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Mix flour (both), sugar, bicarbonate of soda and gingerbread spice. Make a little hole in the middle, add in eggs and honey and knead.
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Place dough in a “hermetically” sealed tupperware and store cool for 14 days. (Gingerbread will stay soft)
After 2 weeks
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Roll out in 5 mm thick (on floured surface) and cut out in different shapes.
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Put on a baking tray (with baking paper), brush with whisked egg and place halved almond on it.
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Bake in preheated oven at 220° C for 6 – 7 minutes.
Rezept-Anmerkungen
Roll out this gingerbread dough not too thinly and bake hot and briefly.
This gingerbread does not become hard!
Peel the almonds: Boil the almonds briefly in water. Quench and then they can be peeled very easily.
Winterly greetings
Maggi & Family
Please do not hesitate to share your ideas with me!
Suggestions and critics are welcome.
Instagram: use #sweetandspicyde or @sweetandspicy.de, so I can see your creations.
Cat Tongue Biscuits
We have this Cat Tongue Biscuits since years for Christmas time. Delicious and easy to make.
Some more biscuits:
Christmas Beetles
Lemon Crescent Cookies
Poppy Seed Biscuits
Linz “Eye“ Cookies
Cat Tongue Biscuits
Gericht:
Kekse
Zutaten
Dough
- 100 g butter softened
- 75 g icing sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- 1 egg
- 1 egg yolk
- 100 g flour
- 50 g starch
To dip
- 100 g semibitter chocolate
- 1 tsp coconut oil
Anleitungen
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Whisk butter, icing sugar and vanilla.
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Mix in egg and egg yolk one by one.
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Sieve flour and starch in and mix.
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Put dough in pipping bag with a small smooth nozzle. Pipe on a baking tray. (with baking paper)
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Bake in preheated oven at 180° C for 9 minutes.
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When the biscuits have cooled down, melt chocolate and coconut oil (bain marie), dip both ends of biscuits in chocolate.
Enjoy baking!
Maggi & Family
Please do not hesitate to share your ideas with me!
Suggestions and critics are welcome.
Instagram: use #sweetandspicyde or @sweetandspicy.de, so I can see your creations.
Thank you!
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