Mandel Broetli (Almond Biscuits)

Ingredients

• 4 eggs
• 500 g icing sugar (confectioners sugar)", "2 tablespoons kirsch", "12 teaspoon almond essence", "1 pinch salt", "550 g plain flour", "100 g ground almonds

Instructions

1. Cream eggs and sugar.
2. Add kirsch, almond essence, and salt.
3. Add flour ground almonds and knead to a dough.
4. (You may need a little extra flour).
5. Roll out the dough to 1cm thick on a floured surface.
6. Using cookie cutters, cut out shapes, make decorations on them using shortbread moulds (or use Anisbrotli Modeli if you have them!
7. ).
8. Place on baking paper on an oven tray.
9. Bake at 160 degrees Celcius for 20 minutes.
10. The biscuits should not brown but stay light in colour.