Christmas tree cakes

Name: Christmas tree cakes
Total time: 115 min
Yield: 15
Ingredients: 1 lemon; 1 orange; 75 gram white almonds; 2 egg; 125 gram liquid honey; 15 tablespoon biscuits; 250 gram self raising flour; powdered sugar; 1 business suit baking decoration marzipan; 1 bottle soft pearls

Ingredients

Directions

Clean the lemon and orange under running water and dry them.
Grate the zest of the lemon and the orange.
Grind the almonds in the food processor.
In a bowl, beat the eggs with the honey with the hand mixer for 5-8 minutes until it becomes a thick creamy mass.
Stir in the orange zest, lemon zest, gingerbread and a pinch of salt.
Mix also the self-raising flour and the almonds and stir everything into a dough.
Form the dough into a ball and leave the dough covered with plastic wrap in the refrigerator for at least one hour.
Dust the work surface and the rolling pin with some self-rising flour.
The taste gets better if you leave it a few hours to a day.
Preheat the oven to 180 ° C.
Line the baking sheet with baking paper.
Place the dough on the work surface and roll out the dough with the rolling pin into a three-quarter-cm-thick rag.
Use the protrusions to cut out cookies.
Knead the remaining pieces of dough for a while, roll out again and make another cake.
Place the cakes with a palette knife or pancake knife on the baking sheet covered with parchment paper.
Ensure sufficient space.
Prick a hole at the top of each cake, which later the ribbon can pass through.
Bake the cakes - if necessary in 2 or 3 times - in the oven in ten to twelve minutes until golden brown and done.
Allow the cakes to cool on a grid.
Meanwhile, dust the work surface with icing sugar and roll out the different colors of marzipan with the rolling pin to thin of two to three mm thick.
With the shapes, cut out marzipan figures and press them onto the cakes with the same shape.
Garnish the marzipan side of the cake with the decoration pens and the soft pearls.
Allow to dry well.
Pull a ribbon through each cake and hang the cakes in the Christmas tree.