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Shortbread cookies is a special kind of cookies, which are usually baked for Christmas. They are usually made of shortcrust pastry. The cookie dough is pressed through a special form, a spray nozzle, so that he gets a star-shaped or flat, corrugated cross section. For this purpose you can use a pastry bag, a cookie syringe or a meat grinder with a special intent. By Pressing through the nozzle, the dough is loose and gets a delicate surface structure.

The biscuits is injected directly on the baking tray, or it is placed in certain shapes on the baking tray.

Typical forms are letter shapes, such as S, C, I, O, and some others. After the " S" shape a kind is also called "S- cakes ".

After baking, the relatively quick due to the flat dough (about 10 to 15 minutes), and cooling can be decorated the shortbread cookies covered with chocolate or icing. In addition, colorful sugar pearls or the like can be applied.

The pastry is for several weeks and has traditionally been gouged out along with cookies, speculoos and black and white cookies for typical Christmas dish under the Christmas tree.

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