Cookie Advent calendar
Ingredients
for 24 pieces
| 200 g | shelled ground almonds |
| 100 g | white flour |
| 50 g | ground cane sugar |
| 1 pinch | salt |
| 100 g | butter, chilled |
| 50 g | lemon curd, chilled |
| 100 g | icing sugar |
| 1 ½ tbsp | lemon juice |
| 1 | icing for writing, black |
How it's done
Cookie dough
Mix the almonds, flour, sugar and salt in a bowl. Add the butter and rub together using your hands to form an even, crumbly mixture, add the lemon curd, mix to form a soft dough, cover and chill for approx. 1 hr.
To shape
Roll out the dough in batches to approx. 7 mm thick between two sheets of baking paper, cut out 24 stars, place on two trays lined with baking paper.
To bake
Approx. 8 mins. per tray in the centre of an oven preheated to 200°C. Remove from the oven, allow to cool slightly, leave to cool completely on a rack.
Icing
Combine the icing sugar and lemon juice, cover the cookies with the icing, leave to dry. Write the numbers 1-24 on the cookies using writing icing, leave to dry.
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