for 24 pieces

Dough

150 g	butter, soft, cut into pieces
¼ tsp	salt
80 g	icing sugar
1	fresh egg
1	organic lemon, use grated zest
200 g	white flour
100 g	unsalted, shelled pistachios, ground
50 g	shelled ground almonds
½ tsp	baking powder

To decorate

100 g	icing sugar
1 ½ tbsp	lemon juice
30 g	unsalted, chopped pistachios, ground

How it's done

Dough

Mix the butter, salt and icing sugar in a bowl. Add the egg, continue to beat using the whisk on a mixer until the mixture becomes lighter in colour. Stir in the lemon zest. Mix the flour, pistachios, almonds and baking powder, mix in, combine to form a dough. Flatten the dough, cover and chill for approx. 1 hr.

To shape

Roll out the dough (approx. 4 mm thick) between two sheets of baking paper, chill for approx. 30 mins. Cut out Christmas trees (each approx. 6 cm in diameter), place on two baking trays lined with baking paper.

To bake

Approx. 10 mins. per tray in the centre of an oven preheated to 200°C. Remove from the oven, leave the biscuits to cool on a rack.

To decorate

Mix the icing sugar and lemon juice to make a thick icing. Cover the tree with the icing as far as the trunk. Sprinkle with pistachios, leave to dry.

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