Almond Orange Shortbread
Almond‑Orange shortbread is a recipe with fresh ingredients from the baking category. Try this and other recipes from Spoonsparrow!
Ingredients
- 100 g crumbed candy
- 250 g flour
- 1 tsp Baking powder
- 2 packets bourbon vanilla sugar
- zest of 1 untreated orange
- 1 egg (medium size)
- 1 egg yolk
- 50 g ground almonds
- 175 g butter
- 2 tbsp sugar
- juice of 1 orange
- 60 g trimmed almonds (45 trimmed almonds)
- powdered sugar (for dusting)
Instructions
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1.
Grind the crumbed candy in an electric grinder until fine, set aside 2 tbsp for dusting. Mix flour and baking powder in a bowl. Add candy, vanilla sugar, orange zest, egg, yolk, almonds, and butter pieces.
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2.
Cut everything with a knife to create dry crumbs, then knead quickly by hand into a smooth dough. Shape the dough into a ~2 cm thick rectangle and wrap in foil; refrigerate overnight.
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3.
Simmer sugar with orange juice until syrupy. Cut the dough into cherry‑size pieces (~15 g) and roll into balls with lightly floured hands. Place on baking trays lined with parchment paper.
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4.
Press an almond onto each ball and brush thinly with orange syrup. Sprinkle with candy. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 °C (gas: level 2, convection: 160 °C) for about 12 minutes. Dust the cookies with powdered sugar.
