Shortbread cookies with almonds and spices

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This cookie is baked in Germany at Christmas - usually figures of animals, and it is called "Speculatio with". But when I tried it, I decided that these cookies can delight yourself all year round - its warming aroma of spices give warmth and winter evenings and rainy summer day, and when the court of autumn leaves...

Ingredients for Shortbread cookies with almonds and spices

Step by step instruction of cooking Shortbread cookies with almonds and spices

Шаг 1

These are the main ingredients for our cookies

Шаг 2

In a mortar grind the cardamom - 3-5 boxes to crush, sprinkle on the seeds and grind, add the ground cloves (or ground cloves 1 flower), cinnamon, mix well

Шаг 3

On the table sift flour slide (head first, 170 g, and then, if necessary, backfill the rest). In flour make a well.
Crack in egg, stir in the sugar, a pinch of salt, vanilla, baking powder and grind our spices.
Add cold and chopped into pieces butter!

Шаг 4

Roll out the dough with a thickness of 5-7 mm and cut using cookie cutters our presets for cookies.
I have molds flowers, but you can just a glass cut, and then outline the petals with a toothpick!
And if you really do not want to bother, you can just pinch off dough and roll into ball slightly smaller than a walnut and roll it in the chopped almonds to adhere nuts.

Шаг 5

Put them directly into the almonds and slightly press to the seeds of almonds stuck. If you are stuck a little backfill from the top.

Шаг 6

And when all the blanks are on the baking sheet - do serdtsevinka I took the cap off the lipstick.
Bake at 180 degrees for 15-20 minutes - keep an eye out - if the oven longer, it may burn.