From the imposing giant chocolate egg in my kitchen, you can sense that Easter is getting closer and you can almost smell its scent! So we have to hurry up with the preparations! I thought of making scented shortbread biscuits with lemon and ginger, and then decorate them with sugar icing: they will be beautiful, colorful and alternative placeholders! Let's see the doses and the ingredients!
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Identity Card of the Recipe
- 322 KCal Calories per serving
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Ingrediants
For about 20 cookies
- 200 g of white flour of type 00
- If necessary: 1 tablespoon of milk
- Untreated lemon zest
- 1 piece of ginger
- 1 teaspoon of baking powder
- 1 pinch of salt
- 80 g of butter
- 50 g of sugar
- 60 g (1 medium) of eggs
- 50 g of potato starch
To decorate
- Q.b. (About 100 g) of sugar paste
- 50 g of powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon of water
- About 30 g of apricot jam
Materials Needed
- Electric whips
- Bowls of various sizes
- Scale weighs food
- Bell-shaped stencil
- Sieve
- Baking plate
- Baking paper
- Paper croissant or sac à poche
- Rolling pin
- Film
Preparation
- In a bowl, combine the soft butter (at room temperature) and the sugar: mix with an electric mixer until the mixture is fluffy and fluffy.
- Mix the butter cream with an egg, and flavor with fresh grated ginger and lemon zest.
- Then sift the white flour with the potato starch (or with other starches), and add a pinch of salt and the sifted yeast.
- Mix the ingredients until you get a soft and very velvety paste. If necessary, add a tablespoon of milk.
- Wrap the dough in cling film and let it rest for half an hour.
- Preheat the oven to 180 ° C.
- Roll out the dough with a rolling pin to a thickness of 4-5 mm.
- Then obtain the biscuits with the help of a bell-shaped mold. You can also use other shapes as desired.
- Gradually place the biscuits on a plate lined with baking paper. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 ° C for 10 minutes.
- Remove the biscuits (still soft) and leave to cool to solidify.
- Roll out the sugar paste and, with the same mold used for the biscuits, obtain the same number of shapes.
- Brush the surface of the biscuits with a veil of apricot jam (or with an "other jam), and stick the shape of the sugar paste.
- Prepare the sugar glaze by mixing the icing sugar with a few drops of water. Gather the glaze in a pastry bag or in a croissant prepared with parchment paper and decorate the bells as desired.
Alternative ideas
As an alternative to sugar paste, you can use different coatings such as marzipan or chocolate glaze.
You can also dip the cookies in melted chocolate.- Decorate the cookies as desired with edible markers, suitable for sweets.
- The cookies are ready to be served. They can be stored in tin containers for a couple of weeks.
Alice's comment - PersonalCooker
Cute bells right? I will use them as a placeholder, writing the name with the markers for sweets! Of course, I adapted the recipe to the occasion of Easter, but you can make all the molds you prefer to celebrate any other event!Nutritional values and Health Comment on the recipe
Very Easy Shortbread Biscuits are fairly caloric dry pastry foods, with a prevalence of energy borne by carbohydrates, followed by lipids and finally by proteins.
Fatty acids are mainly saturated, cholesterol is abundant and fiber is rather deficient.
Very Easy Shortbread Cookies are not recommended in case of overweight and metabolic diseases; moreover, they contain gluten and lactose, which is why they should be excluded from related food therapies.
The average portion is around 20-30g (65-95kcal).
