Sig's Mutzenmandeln

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Ingredients

  • 500 grams plain flour
  • not heaped teaspoons baking powder
  • 4 tsp cinnamon
  • use 2 for the dough mixture nd 2 for sprinkling after cooking
  • 245 grams golden caster sugar
  • 3 medium eggs
  • 1 pinch salt substitute or salt
  • 150 grams unsalted butter
  • 1 3/4 liter oil or fat for deep frying
  • 1 roll of kitchen paper for draining

Instructions

  1. In a bowl mix the 500 grams flour , 150 grams of the sugar, 2 teaspoons of the cinnamon and baking powder.
  2. Add the eggs , salt and the butter, knead well by hand or with a machine until smooth
  3. When all is combined cover with a cloth and rest somewhere cool for 30 minutes .
  4. Sprinkle worktop with the flour .
  5. Roll the dough to about 1 cm thickness use a small teardrop or diamond shaped cutter, or use a square cutter and cut the squares into triangle shapes , shapes need to be about about 3cm long
  6. Heat oil in pot or deep fat fryer , when ready, cook your shaped pieces of dough in the oil until they float to the top and are golden brown, cook about 5 to 7 at a time or the might stick together.
  7. Carefully lift them out and drain on kitchen paper.
  8. ( Make sure to always use fresh oil (fat ) and discard this afterwards or keep separate for other pastry cooking, but no longer then 1 month)
  9. mix the rest of the sugar with the 2 teaspoons of cinamon and roll the cooked Mutzenmandeln in the mix ..
  10. This makes about 60 to 70 bitesize pieces.
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