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Butter Biscuits

Serves 6-8 boxes

Linzer Biscuits

Ingredients

  • 340g softened butter
  • 200g sugar
  • 1 tsp lemon zest
  • 1 egg
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 320g flour
  • 150g almond flour
  • 3/4 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 cup raspberry jam
  • Powdered sugar for dusting

Instructions

  1. Beat the butter, sugar, and lemon zest on medium speed until light and fluffy.
  2. Add egg and vanilla extract.
  3. Mix flour, almond flour, cinnamon and salt in another bowl.
  4. Add to wet mixture gradually and knead the dough until smooth.
  5. Divide the dough in half and wrap up in plastic film.
  6. Refrigerate for an hour.
  7. Preheat oven to 180°.
  8. Roll dough to 6mm thickness.
  9. Cut out circles, half of which should have cutouts in the centre.
  10. Bake for 8-10 minutes.
  11. Let cool then transfer to a rack.
  12. Spoon a teaspoon of jam onto the centre of each biscuit and top with the cutout biscuits.
  13. Dust with powdered sugar.

Icebox Biscuits

Ingredients

  • 120g softened butter
  • 100g powdered sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 300g flour
  • pinch of salt
  • 1 tbsp cocoa powder
  • 1 tbsp milk

Instructions

  1. Beat the butter, sugar, and lemon zest on medium speed until light and fluffy.
  2. Add egg and vanilla extract.
  3. Mix flour and salt.
  4. Add to wet mixture gradually and knead the dough until smooth.
  5. Mix cocoa and milk and add to half the dough.
  6. There should be two doughs at this point: chocolate and vanilla
  7. Wrap both doughs in plastic film.
  8. Refrigerate for an hour.
  9. For spiral biscuits, roll each dough out to 6mm into a rectangle and place them on top of each other.
  10. Tightly roll the two doughs together into a 5cm thick log, so as to form a spiral pattern in the cross section.
  11. Refrigerate for 30 min.
  12. Preheat oven to 180°.
  13. Slice dough into 6mm slices.
  14. Bake for 10-12 minutes.

Alternatively, you can cut out the chocolate and vanilla doughs separately. Bake them and dip in chocolate and ground nuts or toasted shredded coconut. They can be decorated in many different ways.

Walnut Biscuits

Ingredients

  • 85g butter
  • 85g sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 170g flour
  • 85g ground walnuts
  • Powdered sugar for coating

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 180°.
  2. Combine all ingredients apart from powdered sugar until smooth.
  3. The dough should be firm and not sticky.
  4. Pinch small portions of the dough and roll into balls.
  5. Roll out each ball into 2cm thick logs.
  6. Bend the logs into horse shoe shapes.
  7. Bake for 15 minutes.
  8. Let cool and coat in powdered sugar.

Gingerbread biscuits

Check out my Gingerbread House recipe.