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Spitzbuben

“Spitzbuben”

These shortcrust pastry biscuits filled with jam are typical in South Tyrol at Christmas time.

Recipe from the farmer's kitchen

Gabi Pichler

Farmer from farm Wernerhof

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Ingredients

makes 90

60 MIN.

• 500 g
  cold butter
• 250 g
  sugar
• vanilla, lemon zest
• 1 Pinch
  salt
• 1
  egg yolk
• 1
  free-range egg
• 750 g
  flour
• 10 g
  baking powder
• apricot spread

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Instructions - Spitzbuben

• 1.

  Step
  Beat the butter, sugar and flavourings together quickly.
• 2.

  Step
  Add the free-range egg and yolk, along with the flour and baking powder and knead into a smooth dough.
• 3.

  Step
  Let the dough chill in the fridge for about 2 hours.
• 4.

  Step
  Then roll out the dough to a thickness of approx. 3 mm and cut out rings from one half and round biscuits from the other half.
• 5.

  Step
  Bake the biscuits in a preheated oven at 200 ° C for about 8-10 minutes until they are nice and golden.
• 6.

  Step
  Then allow the biscuits to cool before spreading the round ones with apricot jam. Sprinkle the rings with icing sugar and place on top of the round biscuits. (TIP: You can fill the biscuits with jam as and when you need them)
• 7.

  Step
  The biscuits will last a good 2 weeks.
• 8.

  Step
  IMPORTANT: Always work quickly with shortcrust pastry and when it’s chilled, otherwise it will be too crumbly.
•  
  Happy cooking

Gabi Pichler

Farmer from 'Roter Hahn' Farm Holidays

Wernerhof in Jenesien

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