Spiced Christmas Cookies
Description
Delicious baked treat for the whole family. Lately, it has become popular to bake "adult" cookies for the New Year holidays. This dish has a special spicy flavor with a pleasant hint of heat. It's simply amazing with hot tea. Serve warm or chilled. Perfect with tea.
Instructions
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Step 1
In a bowl with high sides, add brown sugar and softened butter. Beat the ingredients with a mixer, gradually adding dark honey and a raw chicken egg during the process.
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Step 2
Place the washed and dried almonds into the blender container. Grind the almonds at high speed into crumbs until you get something resembling almond flour.
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Step 3
Into the bowl where you ground the almonds, add the flour sifted several times, salt, baking soda, baking powder, as well as all the spices and seasonings. Mix all the dry ingredients in the blender bowl for a couple of minutes.
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Step 4
Place all dry and wet ingredients into a bowl and knead until you get a smooth and elastic dough. You don't need to knead for long—just until the mixture becomes uniform. Shape the dough into a ball, wrap it in plastic wrap, and refrigerate for three hours.
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Step 5
When the dough has cooled, remove it from the refrigerator and divide it into equal portions, then shape them into walnut-sized balls. Place them on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake in a preheated oven at 170 degrees Celsius for 20 minutes. During baking, the balls will spread out and turn into hemisphere-like shapes.
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Step 6
While the cookies are baking, prepare the glaze. Mix powdered sugar with lemon juice and nutmeg. Remove the baked cookies from the oven, let them cool, then brush with the glaze.