English Christmas cookies
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Guests 6 people
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Preparation 30 minutes
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Cooking 12 minutes
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Difficulty Easy
To make this recipe
Ingredients
For the cake
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200g unsalted Grand Fermage butter
200g sugar
200g ground almonds
250g flour
70g raisins
4 egg yolks
1 extra egg yolk for brushing
1 teaspoon powdered cinnamon
Juice of half a lemon
For the icing
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50g icing sugar
Juice of half a lemon
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Preparation
Method for the cake
- Beat the butter until soft and add the sugar.
- Gradually add in the ground almonds, raisins, egg yolks, cinnamon and half the lemon juice.
- Mix all the ingredients together until combined to form a smooth dough.
- Add the flour and mix together until the dough forms a ball.
- Leave to rest for 1 hour at room temperature.
- Pre-heat the oven to 150°C.
- Roll out the dough to a thickness of around half a centimetre.
- Use a cookie cutter to cut out whatever shapes you’d like.
- Brush with egg yolk.
- Set the cookies on baking paper and bake for 10 - 12 minutes at 150°C.
- After baking the cake, allow it to cool.
Method for the icing
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Mix the icing sugar with a few drops of hot water, then add the rest of the lemon juice.
- Once cooled, use a brush to coat the cookies with the lemon icing.
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