Spitzbuben is a delicious little festive treat with rich buttery flavours and its signature cut-out-centre with refreshing red currant jam. A perfect cookie has a delicate buttery texture with elegant notes of almonds and a fresh red current feeling.
Ingredients:
- Flour – 300 g, plus extra for dusting
- A pinch of salt
- Ground almonds – 100 g
- Powdered sugar – 150 g
- Butter at room temperature (regular or lactose-free) – 200 g
- Egg – 1
- Vanilla paste – 1/2 tsp
- Lemon Zest – 1 tsp
- Red currant jam
Method:
- Firstly, sift the flour, salt and powdered sugar into a big bowl.
- Now add the rest of the ingredients: ground almonds, butter, vanilla paste and an egg.
- Knead everything together with a hand mixer for 1-2 minutes, then form a smooth dough with your hands.
- Shape the dough into a big pancake-like shape, wrap it in cling film, and let it chill in the fridge for 2 hours.
- Preheat the oven to 180 °C.
- Cut half of the dough, work with one half and keep the other half in the fridge. Take the dough out from the refrigerator a few minutes before rolling it to make it easier to work.
- Next, dust the surface with flour and roll out the dough until it is around 3 mm thin.
- Now is the funniest part, cut out the cookies and make that signature Spitzbuben shape. Make festive motives cut-outs in half of them. However, if you don’t have a cookie form, you can use small objects from apple cutter to cocktail straw to poke 1-3 holes.
- Carefully place your cookies on the baking tray lined with baking paper. Bake them on the middle shelf of the oven for 10-12 minutes until they are lightly golden. Keep an eye on them so they don’t burn.
- While the cookies are still warm, put a little bit of jam in the middle of the unperforated cookies. Now, place one cut out cookie and press down slightly.
- Let your cookies cool down completely and dust with powdered sugar.
Enjoy this winter season with homemade Spitzbuben!
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