Flour bolts

Ingredients for 1 servings:

• 500 g flour
• 250 g sugar
• 100 g margarine or butter
• 1 egg(s)
• 65 ml warm water
• 1 tsp, heaped ammonium bicarbonate
• ½ package baking powder
• ¼ package vanilla sugar
• Sugar pearls
• lemon juice
• powdered sugar

Instructions

Working time approx. 20 minutes; Rest time approx. 12 hours; Cooking/baking time approx. 30 minutes; Total time approx. 12 hours 50 minutes

a specialty from southern Oldenburg

Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius (top and bottom heat) (180 degrees Celsius fan-assisted). Dissolve the ammonium sulfate in the water. Then combine all ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Finally, add the salt/water mixture and mix thoroughly. Refrigerate the dough overnight. It is processed like regular cookie dough. Please be careful not to roll out the dough too thinly when cutting out the cookies, otherwise the flour balls will burn. Bake for 10 minutes. After cooling, decorate the cookies with icing (powdered sugar/lemon juice) and sugar pearls. Flour balls are a recipe from my hometown (Vechta district). Here, these sugar cookies are baked at Christmas time and sold at every bakery. Traditionally, they are slightly larger than “regular” Christmas cookies. However, this is purely a matter of taste.