Sweet house friends

Ingredients for 1 servings:

• 300 g flour
• 175 g sugar
• 1 packet of vanilla sugar
• 1 bottle of rum flavoring
• 3 drops of bitter almond flavor
• 1 pinch of cardamom powder
• 200 g butter
• 1 pinch of salt
• 150 g ground almonds
• 400 g marzipan paste
• 200 g dark chocolate coating
• 1 jar jelly (blackcurrant)
• 140 g almonds, whole kernels, peeled
• Flour for the work surface

Instructions

Working time approx. 2 hours; Rest time approx. 12 hours; Cooking/baking time approx. 10 minutes; Total time approx. 14 hours 10 minutes

Christmas cookies, makes about 70 pieces

Using the dough hook on a mixer, knead the flour, sugar, vanilla sugar, rum flavoring, bitter almond oil, cardamom, butter, salt, and ground almonds into a smooth dough. Cover the dough and chill overnight. Divide the dough and roll out one half on a floured surface to a thickness of about 1 cm. Cut out round cookies (about 4 cm in diameter). Place the cookies, leaving space between them, on baking sheets lined with baking paper. Bake in a preheated oven at 175°C for about 10 minutes. Let cool on a wire rack. Repeat the process with the second half of the dough. Knead the marzipan and roll it out thinly between two layers of cling film. Cut out round cookies the size of cookies. Meanwhile, melt the chocolate coating in a hot water bath. Spread the tops of the cookies thickly with blackcurrant jelly, place a marzipan circle on top, and gently press it down. Cover the cookies with the melted chocolate coating and top with a peeled almond.