Cut-Out Butter Biscuits

Name: Cut-Out Butter Biscuits
Prep time: 50 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 95 min
Yield: 80 servings
Ingredients: 300 g Plain flour; 200 g Butter or margarine; 100 g Sugar; 1 pack Vanilla sugar; 1 pinch Salt; 1 tsp grated organic lemon zest; 1 piece Egg (medium); 150 g Icing sugar; 2–3 tbsp Lemon juice; 3 tbsp colourful sugar sprinkles

A German Christmas classic baked all over Germany, which in Baden-Württemberg comes to the table as Swabian Ausstecherle: butter biscuits of tender shortcrust pastry, cut out as stars, hearts and fir trees. Under the white icing and the colourful sprinkles they smell of vanilla and lemon and stay wonderfully short. The recipe makes about 80 pieces.

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Cook time

95 min

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Servings

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Ingredients

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Nutrition

per serving

47 kcal

Calories

1 g

Protein

2 g

Fat

6 g

Carbs

Ingredients

For 80 servings

Estimated cost~€1.75 · ~€0.00/serving

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Instructions

1
Quickly knead the flour, the cold butter or margarine in pieces, the sugar, the vanilla sugar, the salt, the grated organic lemon zest and the egg into a smooth shortcrust dough.
2
Press the dough flat, wrap it in cling film and chill it.
3
Preheat the oven to 180 °C conventional heat and line the baking trays with baking paper. Roll out the dough in portions on a little flour to 3 mm thick.
4
Cut out stars, hearts and fir trees, set them on the trays with a little space between them and bake them on the middle shelf until the edges are pale gold.
5
Leave the biscuits to cool completely on a rack and work the remaining dough in the same way.
6
Stir the icing sugar smooth with the lemon juice until you have a thick icing. Brush the biscuits with it, scatter the colourful sugar sprinkles over them at once and leave the icing to set.