Baking *without* the Doctor, this time

[wiseheart]

I've tried a new recipe today, as Mum's getting guests the day after tomorrow (or Wednesday, I'm not entirely sure), and this promises to keep quality for a fortnight if kept in a tin box.

So I made little hazelnut biscuits (Haselnussbusserl for the Germans among us), partly because I wanted to try out the recipe before the Great Xmas Baking Orgy (TM) actually starts and partly because I've managed to buy three times the amounts of hazelnuts that I'd actually need. And considering how outrageously expensive the things are over here, letting them go wrong would be a criminal waste.

The recipe says I'd get 50 little biscuits from the ingredients. I managed to make 37, but since I used 2 teaspoons to form them instead of a "Spritztüte" (sorry, no idea what it's in English, my kitchen vocabulary is entirely in German), I think I did well enough.

Bottom line: they are delicious. And that considering that neither Mum nor I actually like anything with hazelnuts. Or with walnuts, for that matter. I'll definitely add them to the Christmas menu.

Comments

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Meine Stollen hatten jedes Mal die Konsistenz von Schuhsohlen, also habe ich die Versuche eingestellt. Obwohl, ich muß sagen, gekaufte Stollen, oder jene die die (deutsche) Frau meines Cousins mach schmecken mir auch wie Sägemehl, also habe ich vielleicht nicht die nötige Rafinesse Stollen richtig würdigen zu können...

[artemis10002000]

Unserer war eher als Keule zu gebrauchen wie zum Essen geeignet *g*