Christmas cookies - Peaches with Alchermes

Gold and red are the two dominant colors of the Christmas holidays. Today I would like to focus on the red color to prepare precious biscuits: stuffed peaches. It is a particular biscuit that is made up of two discs: each hemisphere is then made to adhere to each other with hazelnut spreadable cream or custard. The cake obtained is then quickly dipped in Alchermes and frosted in granulated sugar. A lot of work awaits us: let's get to work.

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Identity Card of the Recipe

• 340 KCal Calories per serving

• Ingrediants

  For about 40 mini peaches

  • 30 g of powdered sugar
  • 30 g of sugar
  • 1 sachet of vanillin
  • 60 g (1 medium) of eggs
  • 1 pinch of salt
  • 1 teaspoon of baking powder
  • 35 g of frumina
  • 240 g of white flour type 00
  • 50 g of butter
  • About 40 ml of water

  To cover

  • About 50 g of sugar
  • About 70 ml of Alchermes

  To stuff

  • About 100 g of ganache, custard or chocolate cream

  Materials Needed

  • Bowls of various sizes
  • Blotting paper
  • Pastry board
  • Baking plates
  • Baking paper
  • Teaspoons
  • Balance scale
  • Latex gloves (optional)
  • Transparent film
  • Knife

  Preparation

  1. In a bowl, combine all the dry ingredients, namely the sifted flour, granulated sugar, icing sugar, frumina (or corn or rice starch), salt, sifted yeast and vanillin. Mix all the ingredients well.
  2. Now add the egg, the butter (melted gently in the microwave) and, a little at a time, the water. Mix with your hands until the mixture is firm.
  3. Wrap the dough in cling film and let it rest for an hour in the fridge.
  4. Remove the dough from the fridge, remove the cling film and work the dough into long and not too big sausages (recommended diameter: about 1 cm). Cut the cord into small pieces, as if they were potato gnocchi! Roll each piece on itself until it forms a small ball, the size of a hazelnut.

  Did you know that
  Alchermes peaches can be of various sizes: small like a peanut, medium-sized like a walnut or even larger. Clearly, the smaller the balls, the more peaches you can get.

  5. Arrange the balls on the baking trays lined with the special greaseproof paper, taking care to keep a certain distance from each other. Bake in a hot oven (180 ° C) for 10-15 minutes, depending on the size of the biscuits. The balls should not turn brown, but take on a slightly amber color.
  6. Remove the cookies from the oven and allow to cool completely.
  7. With the help of 2 teaspoons or a pastry bag, fill each dome obtained with the spreadable chocolate and close with another biscuit, as if it were a sweet sandwich. You can fill the biscuits with any filling, such as chocolate ganache cream, chocolate custard or a simple thick custard.

  Did you know that
  Some recipes for the preparation of alchermes peaches involve engraving the heart of each dome and filling the inside with a filling of your choice: in these recipes, the filling would be trapped in the biscuits. Here we offer mini-peaches, consequently the "biscuit scraping" operation is purposely omitted.

  8. Quickly dip each stuffed biscuit into the alchermes and let it dry for a few seconds on a sheet of absorbent paper.

  The non-alcoholic idea
  To make children eat peaches too, you can replace the alchermes with red milk, colored with the special red edible dye.

  9. Then roll the biscuits in granulated sugar. The alchermes peaches are ready.
  10. The cookies can be stored in tin containers for 2-3 weeks.

  Alice's comment - PersonalCooker

  Now imagine ending the Christmas lunch with a tray of mixed biscuits, of all shapes and colors. The peaches, with their beautiful bright red color, will capture the attention of your guests!

  Nutritional values ​​and Health Comment on the recipe

  The Christmas biscuits - Peaches all "Alchermes - are confectionery products rich in carbohydrates (many of them simple) and with a good amount of lipids (mostly saturated); the proteins are not high, as is the dietary fiber. di Natale do not lend themselves to the diet against overweight, against type 2 diabetes mellitus and hyperlipemia. The average portion of Peaches all "Alchermes is therefore low, equal to about 25g (85kcal).