Pistachio and lemon Christmas trees
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- Serves: 24 persons
Ingredients
- 150 gbutter
- ¼ tspsalt
- 80 gicing sugar
- 1fresh egg
- 1organic lemon
- 200 gwhite flour
- 100 gunsalted, shelled pistachios
- 50 gshelled ground almonds
- ½ tspbaking powder
- 100 gicing sugar
- 1 ½ tbsplemon juice
- 30 gunsalted, chopped pistachios
Instructions
Step 1
Mix the butter, salt and icing sugar in a bowl. Add the egg, continue to beat using the whisk on a mixer until the mixture becomes lighter in colour. Stir in the lemon zest. Mix the flour, pistachios, almonds and baking powder, mix in, combine to form a dough. Flatten the dough, cover and chill for approx. 1 hr.Step 2
Roll out the dough (approx. 4 mm thick) between two sheets of baking paper, chill for approx. 30 mins. Cut out Christmas trees (each approx. 6 cm in diameter), place on two baking trays lined with baking paper.Step 3
Approx. 10 mins. per tray in the centre of an oven preheated to 200°C. Remove from the oven, leave the biscuits to cool on a rack.Step 4
Mix the icing sugar and lemon juice to make a thick icing. Cover the tree with the icing as far as the trunk. Sprinkle with pistachios, leave to dry.