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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Deutschland >> German

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Sift flour with baking powder into a wide bowl. | 2. form a well in flour. | 3. To this add butter, cut into small pieces, 1 beaten egg, vanilla, sugar and cream. | 4. Work ingredients together with your fingertips until you have a smooth dough that sticks together. | 5. Form a ball, wrap in waxed paper and chill 30 minutes. | 6. Break dough off in pieces slightly larger than a walnut. | 7. With floured hands, roll each piece to a thin rope. | 8. Shape into a pretzel. | 9. Arrange on buttered baking sheet and chill 20 minutes. | 10. Brush with beaten egg and sprinkle with chopped almonds, then sugar. | 11. Bake in preheated 325 F. | 12. oven for about 25 minutes, or until golden brown. | 13. Makes about 3 dozen cookies. | 14. VARIATION: The almond and sugar topping may be omitted and the pretzels baked and cooled, then spread with White Sugar Glaze. | 15. WHITE SUGAR GLAZE: For cookies and cakes, and especially for Lebkuchen, 1/3 cup confectioners' sugar, 1 1/2 Tablespoons cornstarch, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla or almond extract, 1 teaspoon rum or brandy (optional), 1/2 to 1 1/4 Tablespoons hot water, or as needed. | 16. Combine sugar, cornstarch, flavorings and rum or brandy. | 17. Gradually stir in hot water, a tablespoonful at a time, until you have a smooth thick paste. | 18. Spread on warm cookies. | 19. If mixture cools and thickens as you work, thin with additional hot water. | 20. Sugar sprinkles can be scattered on the glaze before it hardens. | 21. Makes 1/4 cup, or enough to ice about fifteen 1 1/2 inch cookies. | 22. Visions of Sugar Plums. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
flour	3 1/2	cups		2023.98	443.1189	32.9035	7.8526
baking powder	1	teaspoon		2.438	1.2742	0.0	0.0
butter	1	cup	unsalted	1368.0	62.856	42.744	115.2
egg	1		beaten	71.5	0.36	6.28	4.755
vanilla	1	teaspoon		12.095999999999998	0.5313	0.0025	0.0025
sugar	1	cup		805.98	201.59599999999998	0.0	0.0
heavy cream	1/2	cup		204.0	1.6440000000000001	1.704	21.648000000000003
egg	1		beaten	71.5	0.36	6.28	4.755
almond	1/2	cup	chopped unblanched	963.56	0.0	0.0	109.0
sugar	2 -3	tablespoons		805.98	201.59599999999998	0.0	0.0

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.