German Christmas terraces
Terraces are simple with subtle flavours and are fun to make. While they may not be one of the top German Christmas biscuits, they will always mean Christmas to me.
Equipment
- Dough hook attachment
- Plastic wrap
- baking paper
- butter knife
Ingredients
For the dough
- 250 g plain flour
- 70 g white sugar
- peel of one lemon grated
- 2 egg yolks
- 150 g butter softened to room temperature
To assemble
- 4 tbsp. Red berry jam
- 3 tbsp. Icing sugar for dusting
Instructions
For the dough
- Combine all the dough ingredients in the bowl of your stand mixer (dough hook attachment). Mix the ingredients until they form a smooth dough. You may also need to knead the dough a little to remove any bumps.
- Cover in plastic and refrigerate for an hour.
- Preheat the oven to 190°c (fan-forced).
- Sprinkle a little flour on your work surface and on your rolling pin and roll out your dough until it is about 5 mm thick.
- Using three different-sized cookie cutters of the same shape, cut out the layers and place on a baking tray.
- Bake for 6-8 minutes or until golden. Remove from the oven and allow the biscuits to cool.
To assemble
- Slowly warm the red berry jam in a pot.
- Spread a little jam on one of the large biscuits and add a medium-sized one on top. Spread jam on the medium-size biscuit and add a small-size biscuit on top, so that you have little three-level terraces.
- To serve, dust with icing sugar to look like light snow.
Notes
For these biscuits, you will need three cookie cutters of two or three different sizes with the same shape. We used 'ruffles', but stars or circles work well too.
If your oven is hot, these biscuits will cook very quickly. I had one tray which got quite dark... You only want your biscuits to be slightly golden. Make sure you watch the oven carefully.
The jam should not contain any seeds or lumps of fruit.
Children love helping to cut out and assemble these biscuits. Just be careful with the hot jam - it burns!
The number of biscuits will depend on whether you have two or three layers. Likewise, it will affect the amount of jam you will need. I used three layers, approx. 4 tablespoons of jam and made 24 finished biscuits.
Nutrition
Serving: 1gCalories: 68.29kcalCarbohydrates: 14.38gProtein: 1.52gFat: 0.72gSaturated Fat: 0.28gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.12gMonounsaturated Fat: 0.24gCholesterol: 16.89mgSodium: 7.56mgPotassium: 23.01mgFiber: 0.34gSugar: 5.99gVitamin A: 31.94IUCalcium: 10.95mgIron: 0.54mg
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