Delicate Cinnamon Stars

Description: Cinnamon stars are as essential to Christmas as a Christmas tree. This recipe for delicate cinnamon stars is guaranteed to succeed, and you'll never want to eat another kind again.

Christmas Favorite Baking

Author: Miriam

Publication Date: 2024-12-08

Category: Christmas cookies

Cuisine: German

Preparation Time: 2H

Baking Time: 5M

Total Time: 3H

Yields: About 100 cookies (5 trays)

Ingredients

• 450 g (+ 1 package for rolling) Powdered sugar
• 5 egg whites
• 500 g ground almonds
• 3 tsp (8 g) cinnamon
• 1 tsp (6 g) cocoa powder

Instructions

1. Separate eggs and beat egg whites: Separate the eggs (put the egg whites into a large mixing bowl) and beat the egg whites into stiff peaks with a hand mixer. Tip: The mixing bowl must be fat-free, and there should be no egg yolk residue. Egg shells don't matter, you can just remove them, and the egg whites will still firm up. It works best with cold eggs and a small pinch of salt. Beat until the egg whites no longer flow out of the bowl when flipped upside down.
2. Fold in powdered sugar: Sift the powdered sugar into the egg whites in portions and carefully fold it in until the mixture shines.
3. Set aside egg whites: Set aside about one large coffee cup full of egg whites (best in the fridge until needed).
4. Fold in almonds and spices: Carefully fold in the almonds, cocoa, and cinnamon in portions (the dough will become quite stiff, but that's intentional!).
5. Chill dough: Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and chill for about one hour.
6. Prepare surface: Sprinkle the work surface with sifted powdered sugar. Knead the dough briefly, but not too long, as cold dough is easiest to cut into stars.
7. Roll out and cut out stars: Roll out the dough carefully with a rolling pin and cut out stars. Tip: They are easiest to cut when the dough is about 1 cm thick. If the dough sticks to the cutter, rinse the cutter with cold water or dip it briefly in powdered sugar. Just be careful not to make the dough too wet from the water!
8. Brush stars with egg whites: Once all the stars are cut out, brush them with the reserved egg whites.
9. Let the stars dry at room temperature overnight.
10. Preheat oven and bake stars: The next day, preheat the oven to 200°C (convection) and bake the stars for about 5 minutes (for 1 cm thickness. Thinner stars should be baked for 3-4 minutes). The meringue coating should be lightly browned at most.
11. Let cool: After cooling, the stars will be crisp on the outside and soft on the inside!

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