Assorted Peanut Ginger Cookies


Rating: 3.75 / 5.00 (8 Votes)


Total time: 1 hour

Servings: 50.0 (servings)

For the peanut ginger dough:









For the cookies with orange glaze:








For the raspberry mounds:





For the false Bethmännchen:




Instructions:

For the various peanut-ginger cookies, first prepare the dough. For this, finely grind the peanuts and knead with the remaining ingredients to a smooth dough. Form the dough into a roll and wrap in plastic wrap and place in the refrigerator for 1 hour.

For the Ginger Peanut Cookies with Orange Glaze, roll the dough out thinly on a floured work surface and cut out round cookies. Place the cookies on a baking sheet lined with baking paper. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 ° C for about 15 minutes.

For the orange glaze, mix half of the powdered sugar with orange juice, or orange liqueur and brush the now lukewarm cookies with it.

Top each cookie with 3 peanut halves arranged in a star shape or with candied ginger. Mix the remaining powdered sugar with hot water and rum, then drizzle the icing in thick dots on the cookies.

For the raspberry mounds, form walnut-sized balls from the basic dough, press a hollow into the center with your thumb and stick a raspberry into each ball. Form the cookie round again so that the raspberry is no longer visible. Then place the dough balls on a baking sheet, garnish each with a peanut kernel, brush with beaten egg yolk and bake in a preheated oven at 180 ° C for 15-18 minutes and dust the hot raspberry mounds with powdered sugar.

For the fake Bethmännchen, form walnut-sized balls from the dough and press 6 peanut kernel halves onto each ball. Place on a b

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