Finnish Cookies / Danish Finsk Broed
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Ready In: 40 mins
Serves: 125
Yields: 125 cookies
Ingredients
- 3 3⁄4 cups all-purpose flour (375 g)
- 1⁄2 cup sugar (85 g)
- 1 cup butter
- 2 eggs, divided, NOTE
- 1⁄4 cup almonds, skinned (best if freshly skinned whole almonds are used instead of pre-skinned in a package)
- 1 tablespoon sugar
Directions
- Mix flour and sugar in a bowl, cut the butter in small pieces and cut it into the flour mixture.
- Whip one egg and add to the dough, Gather the dough quickly. If you find the dough is too dry you can add a bit of water to help gather the dough.
- Divide the dough into 4 portions and roll the dough into long ropes about as thick as your finger. Flatten the 'ropes' and cut them into 2 inch long cookies.
- Place the cookies on cookie sheets lined with parchment paper and let them rest in a cool place for at least one hour.
- Meanwhile - chop the almonds roughly and mix them with 1 tbsp sugar.
- Whip one egg.
- Preheat oven to 400°F.
- Brush the cookies with egg and dust with almond/sugar mix.
- Bake the cookies for 12-15 min at 400 F until golden.
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