Chocolate Kipferl
The baking of christmas cookies and biscuits in the Advent season is a tradition. So to say pre-christmas attunement, with christmas carols in the background mixed with the scent of typical christmas spices.
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Pumpkinseed Biscuits
3 days left! What’s behind door Number 21? Read more
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
Peanut Swirl
What’s behind door number 18. Read more
Beetroot Cookies
Today is the 3rd Advent. In a weeks time its Christmas! The children are of course very excited.
What’s behind door number 17?
Poppy Seed Biscuits
What’s behind door number 16? Read more
Anise Treats
How time flies! Let’s open number 13!
Gingerbread
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!
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.
Winterly greetings
Maggi & Family
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Suggestions and critics are welcome.
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Cat Tongue Biscuits
We have this biscuits since years for Christmas time. Delicious and easy to make.
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
Chocolate Hazelnut Treats
These cookies melt on the tongue. A mix of chocolate and hazelnuts. Simply irresistible!
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The second Advent weekend starts. Let’s look at what’s behind the door number 9.
Christmas Beetles
I call it Beetles, because for me they look like this. The recipe is from my dear aunty and she is amazing in baking. Thanks a lot!
They stay soft because of the marzipan (almond paste). Delicious!
Coconut Chocolate Biscuits
Let’s open door number 7!
Chocolate Mandarin
What is behind door number 6? Let’s look!
Almond Treats
5th of December; Let’s open the door:
Crumble Biscuits
4th of December: Are you curious? Find out what’s in door 4!
Coconut Sticks
These Christmas cookies are one of our favorite cookies. My aunt has baked them every year since I was a child.
Read moreBanana Walnut Cookies
These cookies are ideal to use a ripe banana. They taste really delicious, also for children.
Not only at Christmas time.
Chocolate and Coconut Chip Cookies
Hello everyone!
Today we have Chocolate and Coconut Chip Cookies.
I love chocolate. Who does not? 🙂
Like everyone else I try not to eat a lot of chocolates, but sometimes it has to be “chocolate”!! 🙂
If you open a bar of chocolate, you have to finish it… otherwise it might go bad… 🙂
Same goes with Choco Cookies, just delicious. That´s why we wish to share this recipe.
Chocolate and Coconut Chip Cookies
Gericht:
Biscuits and Cookies
Portionen: 70 Cookies (approx.)
Zutaten
- 280 g flour
- 20 g cacao powder
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 250 g butter, softened
- 140 g sugar
- 140 g brown sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- 2 eggs
- 300 g chocolate, chopped
- 100 g coconut chips
Anleitungen
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Sieve flour, cacao powder and bicarbonate of soda. Add salt and mix.
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Whisk softened butter, sugar, brown sugar and vanilla essence.
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Add an egg mix and then add a second egg and mix. (do not add both eggs at the same time)
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Mix in chopped chocolate and coconut chips.
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Form little "balls" using two teaspoons and place on backing tray, leaving enough space in between.
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Bake in preheated oven at 190° C for 10 minutes.
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Remove from oven and let to cool for about 2 minutes. Do not remove cookies immediately from tray. Cookies are still soft.
Enjoy baking!
Maggi & Family
Merken