December 11th, 2011

Little Plum Packets

Pflaumenpäckchen Its already the third advent and I still did not post a single Christmas cookie recipe! I have to change this immediately!

But until now I bake the traditional cookies in our family: Vanilla crescents, Liebesgrübchen, Black and white Kisses and Linzer Rings. But in the December Magazine of “Schrot and Korn” there were a cookie recipe that temped me very much. Little Plum Packets a butter cookie filled with plum butter and ground nuts.

They looked very complicated but when I read the recipe I realise that they are much easier to do the I thought. You just has to cut out stars, place a little bit of the filling in the middle and fold the pointed ends of the star over the filling and close everything with a hazelnut.

The cookies are great: a soft fruit and nut filling with hints of vanilla and cinnamon. I like them very much!

Little Plum Packets

yields 60 cookies

Dough

  • 150g flour Type 550
  • 90g Butter
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 50g sugar
  • 10g vanilla sugar (homemade)
  • 1 Pinch Salt

Filling

  • 180g plum butter
  • 100g ground hazelnuts
  • 1 Pinch cinnamon

Decoration

  • 60 Hazelnuts

Knead flour with sugar, egg yolk, vanilla sugar and butter. Rest the dough for one hour in the fridge.

For the Filling mix plum butter, ground hazelnuts and cinnamon.

Roll the dough to a plate with a thickness of 3 mm. Cut out Stars with a diameter of 7 cm. Place a little bit filling on each center of the stars and fold the pointed ends over the filling. Place a hazelnut on top.

Bake at 175°C for 15 min.

4 Responses t_on Little Plum Packets

  1. Melanie December 4th, 2016

    Hallo du Liebe, was genau ist denn plum butter?

    beste Grüße aus Saudi Arabien
    Melanie

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  2. Manu December 11th, 2011

    Ich glaube, ich kenne diese leckeren Teilchen unter einem anderen Namen. Dreieckshut, oder so. Da wird auch keine Haselnuss als Deko benutzt. Deswegen sieht es wie ein Hut aus.

    LG

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    1. Stefanie December 11th, 2011

      @Manu: Meinst du Dreispitz-Kekse? Die werden, glaube ich, aus einem Kreis gemacht, dessen Seiten zusammen gedrückt werden – auch sehr hübsch. Diese hier sehen durch die schmalen Spitzen des Sterns schon anders aus.

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