Chocolate Nutella stars
Time
Preparation time: 30 min.
Cooking or baking time: 10 min.
Total preparation time: 40 min.
Chocolate Nutella stars - tested by Santa Claus
ingredients
For the dough
- 200 g of Nutella
- 100 g butter, room temperature
- 1 pck of vanilla sugar
- 1 egg size M
- 200 g of flour
- 100 g cornstarch
- 1 teaspoon cocoa powder
- 1 pinch of salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 - 1 teaspoon cinnamon (to taste)
For a snow-white font
- 4 sheets of gelatine, white
- 500 g of powdered sugar
- 40 g cornstarch
- 5 tablespoons water (or rum)
preparation
- Mix the Nutella with the soft butter. Add the vanilla sugar and a pinch of salt and stir in the egg.
- Mix the flour with baking powder, cocoa powder and cinnamon. Tablespoonful to the dough and knead. (I always do that in my food processor, but it's also possible with the hand mixer).
- Form the dough with your hands into a ball and place it in a (Tupper) bowl with lid. The dough should now be covered for at least 3 hours in the refrigerator, so that the butter can be put back on and the consistency becomes firmer.
- Before you start cutting, lay out a baking tray with baking paper and heat up your oven 180 ° C - 200 ° C O / U before.
- Your dough is now well chilled so you can start rolling out now. Please only ever swirl smaller dough portions on the lightly floured work surface and leave the rest of the dough better in the fridge, as it softens very quickly. This is very important.
- If the dough is undressed, you can cut out small and big stars at will and carefully place them on the prepared baking tray with a pallet. Quickly knead the failed specimens together and rewet them, cut out the stars, etc. (and not eat everything): o))
- While the first baking sheet in the oven, you can already wave out the next piece of dough and cut out more stars and put them already on the next sheet. If you do not have a second plate, just place it on a piece of baking paper and then pull it onto the baking tray later when the first batch of stars is just cooling down.
- After 10 minutes your stars should be ready baked. The color is difficult to recognize, because they are brown. So a bit of tact is needed. Each oven bakes differently and only you know yours exactly. 180 ° C was enough for me - some ovens might need 200 ° C.
- Please leave the ready-baked stars on the tin for a moment, because they are still soft and would break if you take them down immediately. After about 2 minutes it should work and so you can now carefully lift it with a pallet from the plate and set to cool on a grid. Immediately insert the next sheet and just continue until the whole dough has been processed.
Your Nutellasterne already taste delicious - but look pretty inconspicuous and naked. We want to change that, right? It's Christmas cookies after all.
So let's start with the fine-tuning of the stars to make them the real eyecatchers on your Christmas plates.
molding
- For a snow-white fontIncidentally, he is also perfect for decorating witches' houses or gingerbread hearts, so please soak the 4 sheets of gelatine in cold water. After 5 minutes, squeeze the leaves well and dissolve in 5 - 6 tablespoons of warm water, but DO NOT boil.
- Then sift the icing sugar along with the cornstarch into a bowl and add 5 tablespoons of water or rum. Or freshly squeezed lemon juice. (Just Not the from the plastic lemon please).
- Immediately add the dissolved gelatine to the powdered sugar mixture and mix everything carefully with the hand mixer to a viscous mass. Immediately pour the mixture into a piping bag and you're ready to start fine-tuning.
tip
If you do not have a suitable piping bag, simply fill the mass into a freezer bag, turn it up tight and then cut one of the corners down one tiniest small tip off. That's how I did it, because my piping bag is too big for the crowd. It works wonderfully; Try it quietly.
Now you can start and decorate your stars to your heart's content. If you like, sprinkle on a few small decouples. But that has to be done quickly because the crowd is dressing very fast. For drying, I just put the stars on baking paper. After about 2 hours, the sprayed-on cast should have hardened. Then you can carefully store the stars in cookie jars or fill them into little cellophane bags to give away.
I wish you much success in baking and good luck!
(The total preparation time including the time for cutting out is of course individually different).
