Spitzbuben

I wish you all a nice third Advent.

Christmas time is family time, so I diligently baked with my mom and my sister this weekend cookies. A variety of these were the “Spitzbuben“ which are super tasty, but unfortunately a little bit complicated. They taste of hazelnut and are delicious with currant jelly.

For these cookies (20 pieces) you need about 20 minutes. You have to let the dough rest for 30 minutes. All in all you need 50 minutes. The price for this recipe is about 4,50€.

 Most of my recipes I do with this maker. It is a little older-about 8 years, but it makes it much easier. It is from Aldi and has cost at that time about 90 €.

Ingredients:

420g flour
210g sugar
250g butter
125g hazelnuts (grated)
1 glass of currant jelly

if you want: powdered sugar

1.

The first thing you gonna do, is to sift the flour. Next you have to mix the flour with sugar, butter and hazelnuts. After that you put the dough into the fridge. The dough has to rest for 30 minutes.

2.

The next step is, you have to roll out dough (1-2 cm thick) and cut out small round cookies. I do it with this rotary cutter (4-5€, sometimes at Lidl).

3.

Then you put the cookies into the oven, for 15 minutes (170°-preheated). Mop the ground with currant jelly and put the cookie with the star on it.
Last step: dust with the powdered sugar.

Do you like cookies with hazelnuts or currant jelly?