Zimtsterne - Cinnamon Cookies

🧂 Ingredients

• 3 Egg white
• 2 teaspoon Vanilla sugar
• 2 ¼ cups Confectioners sugar
• 3 ¼ g Ground almonds
• 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
• Icing sugar for dusting the work surface

Instructions

• 1 First of all, separate the eggs into two separate bowls.
• 2 Preheat the oven to 302 °F (150 °C) top and bottom heat.
• 3 In a large mixing bowl, whip the egg whites and vanilla sugar. Gradually
  sprinkle in the sugar and beat until stiff.
• 4 Take four tablespoons of the stiffly beaten mixture and put it in the fridge.
  You will need it to coat the cookies.
• 5 With the help of a wooden spoon, fold the grated almonds and the cinnamon into
  the beaten egg mixture and knead the cookie dough again briefly with your hands.
• 6 Now cover two baking sheets with baking paper and set them aside.
• 7 Sprinkle some icing sugar on the work surface and roll out the sticky dough
  (approx. 5 mm // 0.2 inch).
• 8 Now, little by little, cut out little fir trees (or if you decide to go for the
  stars, stars) and lift them onto the prepared baking sheet lined with baking
  paper.
• 9 To make cutting easier, regularly dip the cookie cutter in cold water before
  cutting. This water coating will prevent the dough from sticking.
• 10 Knead the dough left over from cutting with two tablespoons of grated almonds
  and roll it out again to cut out the remaining cookies.
• 11 Brush the leftover whipped egg white thinly on the cutout cookies before you put
  the tray on the middle rack in the oven.
• 12 Bake for about 20 minutes and repeat with the remaining cinnamon stars.
• 13 Let the baked cookies cool on the baking sheet, and once cooled, store them in
  an airtight container lined with parchment paper or a cookie tin that seals
  tightly.

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