Have you started making cookie boxes?
It has now become a tradition in my home: every year, in the first days of December, I start kneading all kinds of biscuits, which I then keep in tin boxes. I'm ticking the list of Christmas cookies [I show a list with the names of cookies] and today I will prepare the canestrelli, obviously revisited in the lighter version: we will try to reduce the amount of butter by over 50%!
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- 431 KCal Calories per serving
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Ingrediants
For 25-30 cookies
- 1-2 tablespoons of milk
- 1 sachet of vanillin
- 1 pinch of salt
- 50 g of hazelnuts
- 70 g of butter
- 50 g of powdered sugar
- 1 yolk (20 g) of hard-boiled eggs
- 100 g of potato starch
- 100 g of white flour of type 00
To serve
- Q.b. of powdered sugar
Materials Needed
- Small saucepan
- Bowl
- Scale weighs food
- Flower-shaped mold (diameter: 4 cm)
- Wooden spoon
- Colander
- Baking tray
- Baking paper
- Scoop
Preparation
- First, firm the egg. Fill a tall, narrow saucepan with cold water, immerse the egg and bring to a boil. Calculate 10 minutes from boiling, then turn off the heat and let the hard-boiled egg cool in cold water and ice.
- Meanwhile, sift the white flour, potato starch (potato starch) and icing sugar.
- Add a pinch of salt and vanilla.
- Cut the butter into small pieces and soften them gently in the microwave.
- Finely blend the hazelnuts to form a flour.
Did you know that
Hazelnuts are the "surprise" ingredient of canestrelli. In fact, not all recipes provide for its use. Hazelnuts are useful for reducing the amount of butter: in this variant, in fact, the amount of butter is significantly lower than in the traditional version.- Add hazelnuts and butter to the dough.
- Shell the egg, remove the egg white and sift the yolk through a sieve. Add the hard-boiled yolk to the other ingredients and mix everything with your hands, adding one or two tablespoons of milk: you will have to obtain a compact and velvety mixture.
- Wrap the dough in cling film and let it rest for 15 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 180 ° C.
- Flour the pastry board and roll out the dough to a thickness of 1 cm. With a flower-shaped mold (diameter: 4 cm) make the cookies and place them on a plate lined with baking paper. With a 1 cm diameter round stencil, make a ring in the center of each flower.
The right idea
Those who do not have a 1 cm diameter round mold can engrave each basket with the handle of a wooden spoon!- Make 30-35 canestrelli and bake them in the oven for 10-12 minutes: the biscuits are ready when they begin to brown slightly along the edges.
- Then remove the plate from the oven, allow to cool and sprinkle with icing sugar.
- Store in tin containers for 3 weeks.
Alice's comment - PersonalCooker
Baking cookies at home is always a joy for the whole family! I really like preparing all the ingredients and then calling my grandchildren flour and sugar scattered throughout the kitchen to "help", but we always have a lot of fun! Happy holidays to you all!Nutritional values and Health Comment on the recipe
Canestrelli Biscuits with Little Butter are sweet foods with a high calorie content.
They have an energetic prevalence of lipids, followed by carbohydrates and finally by proteins. Fatty acids tend to be unsaturated, cholesterol is quite high and fibers appear to be well present.
Although lighter and less caloric than the traditional recipe, the canestrelli biscuits proposed by Alice do NOT lend themselves to the diet of overweight subjects, those suffering from metabolic diseases, those intolerant to gluten and lactose. The average portion is of. about 25g (105kcal).
