Cookie recipe #7 - "Demel" stars

[wiseheart]

Ingredients:
220 gr white flour
180 gr butter or margarine
110 gr sugar
1 egg
70 gr ground almonds
sugar-preserved cherries for the decoration

For the icing:
200 gr icing sugar
4 tablespoons of rum
1 tablespoon of vanilla-flavoured sugar
(personally, I always make them without the icing - not so sweet that way - but that's a matter of taste)

How to make it:
- Pre-heat the oven at 190°C
- Stir softened butter with the sugar a lot;
- Add the egg, the almonds and finally the flour and stir some more;
- Fill the dough into the cookie press and make small stars onto the baking paper.
- Decorate each cookie with half a cherry.
- Bake them for 10 minutes, until they get a light golden colour.
- Take them from the tin, let them cool.

For the icing, stur the ingredients until you get a thick liquid and smear it over the stars.

Yields about 50 cookies.

Comments

[thezonefic.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the recipe, I'm always looking for new ones. My daughter really loves to bake (and cook) and I've been translating my mother's cookie, torte and cake recipes for her, (and I have to say for me there is something tastier about European baking, then there is about North American) needless to say diet will be on the schedule for after Christmas. Thanks again ckl

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

You're welcome - and I know what you mean about diet. I've planned Lent as a strictly sugar-free period, too. ;)

I think North American baking suffers from the blatant amuse of baking soda. My Granny hated baking soda with a passion. She always said, if you put an honest amount of eggs into the doough, you won't need such artifical help that makes the cookies taste of sour sand.

From which language do you translate your family recipes?

[thezonefic.livejournal.com]

Ukrainian, my children understand the language but don't speak it. Since I was first generation born on this continent and people who immigrated of my parents generation tended to settle in small communities together I grew up speaking only Ukrainian until I went to school. Even went to "Ukrainian school" to learn about my heritage. I started teaching my children to speak the language (my husband was very supportive) but as he got sicker and I had to looking after him, my children and working full time made teaching them impossible so over time they both forgot most of what they were taught. So it means mama needs to translate Baba's recipes for my daughter.

Baking soda I don't care for either, but a lot of North American (or as we refer to it English) baking doesn't have much taste character either. A European torte or cookies have greater taste ranges. And it's funny that you mention NA cakes tending to taste like sand, that was what my mother always said about cakes made here.