Chocolate cookies from Grandma Gerlinde

Ingredients for 1 servings:

• 125 g chocolate, 70% cocoa content, grated
• 125 g hazelnuts, finely grated
• 125 g sugar
• 70 g margarine
• 1 egg(s)
• 150 g flour
• ¾ cup powdered sugar
• some lemon juice, from less than half a lemon

Instructions

Working time approx. 30 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 10 minutes; Total time approx. 40 minutes

Christmas cookies

Beat the sugar, margarine, and egg with a mixer until fluffy. Mix in the remaining ingredients with a dough hook. Roll out the dough and cut out shapes. Line a baking sheet with baking paper and arrange the cookies on it. Bake in the preheated oven on the middle rack at 170 degrees Celsius for 10 minutes. Do not bake longer, or the cookies will smell burnt. They will be a little soft when they come out of the oven and will only firm up when they cool. Melt the powdered sugar with a few teaspoons of lemon juice in a water bath. The icing must not be too runny so that it stays nice and white. Brush the icing over the baked cookies. These are very fine chocolate cookies that children and adults alike love to nibble on. The recipe comes from our Grandma Gerlinde. She says the dark chocolate and lemon juice prevent the cookies from tasting overly sweet. We eat lots of them every year.