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- Cuisine: Swiss
- Makes 20–30 biscuits
Featured as part of our Cooks and their Books series, this recipe comes courtesy of Manuela Darling-Gansser, inveterate traveller and passionate amateur cook.
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Ingredients
250 g (9 oz) unsalted butter, at room temperature
500 g (1 lb 2 oz) caster (superfine) sugar
3 organic eggs
500 g (1 lb 2 oz) unbleached
plain (all-purpose) flour
pinch of salt
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground cloves
grated zest of 1 lemon
Preparation
During this festive season, my family always makes Christmas biscuits. There are many different varieties – some with chocolate, some with nuts, and others that are plain butter biscuits. We cut some of them out in various shapes in the Christmas theme – angels, stars and Christmas trees. Some we leave plain and others we decorate with icing. It is a ritual that the children love to get involved in, cutting out the biscuits or decorating them (and sneaking a few pieces of raw dough!).
Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, then add 1 egg at a time, beating well after each addition. Add the remaining ingredients and mix thoroughly. Shape the dough into a ball and refrigerate for about 1 hour.
Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F). Roll the pastry out to about ½ cm (¼ in) thick and use biscuit cutters to cut out different shapes, such as stars, angels and Christmas trees. Arrange on trays lined with greaseproof paper. Bake in the oven for 5 to 7 minutes, or until the biscuits just start to colour. Cool on a rack.
Leave the biscuits plain or, if you like, decorate them with an icing made of icing (confectioners’) sugar and a few drops of lemon juice. You can give the angels faces, hair and dresses, and decorate the Christmas trees – just use your imagination!
Keep the biscuits in an airtight jar or biscuit tin.
Recipe from Winter In The Alps by Manuela Darling-Gansser, with photographs by Simon Griffiths. Published by Hardie Grant Books.
If you enjoyed this Christmas biscuits recipe then browse more Swiss recipes, dessert recipes, child-friendly recipes, entertaining recipes, baking recipes and our most popular hainanese chicken rice recipe.
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| 2. | Swiss Cottage | Katoomba | |
| 3. | Bei Amici Restaurant | Darling Point | |
| 4. | Eiger Swiss Restaurant | Petersham | |
| 5. | Pulver's Wallis Fogarty Steakhouse | Alice Springs | |
| 6. | Nick's Swiss Italian Restaurant | Yungaburra | |
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