In the Christmas bakery... nothing beats the scent of home-baked cinnamon stars, refined with dark single-origin chocolate.
Recipe for 100 cinnamon stars
Utensils: star cutter
Preparation time: 2 hours
Ingredients for the dough:
250 g marzipan paste
250 g nut semolina
400 g sugar
10 g cinnamon
90 g crumbs
60 g almond semolina
100 g egg whites
500 g Ecuador 70% chocolate pearls
Ingredients for the glaze:
40 g egg whites
400 g icing sugar
Method:
- Knead all the ingredients together using a hand mixer.
- Roll out the dough to a thickness of approx. 1 cm.
- In the meantime, prepare the glaze: mix the egg whites and icing sugar together and brush it over the rolled-out dough.
- Then cut out stars and bake in the oven at approx. 130 °C for 13 minutes.
- Leave the biscuits to cool while tempering the chocolate. Important: the chocolate must be tempered to around 30 °C.
- Then dip the underside of the biscuits into the chocolate.
Tip:
It’s worth having a little extra icing sugar ready.
