Chocolate kourabiedes

Name: Chocolate kourabiedes
Yield: 25-30 pieces
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 300 g butter; 125 g roasted almonds (coarsely cut); 110 g icing sugar; 500 g flour; 1/2 tsp baking powder; 160 g chocolate couverture, melted; 1/4 cup brandy; chocolate couverture; milk; brandy

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Kourabiedes (traditional Christmas butter cookies) that are different from all the rest, ones that there's not a kid (and not only) around who won't love them. And a detailyou won't have to worry that they will choke on the icing sugar or that they mess up the house. My son brought me this recipe when he was in kindergarten and they made kourabiedes with their teacher and since then we never made the traditional ones ever again.

Recipe by aliki_ma

Cookpad Greece @cook_8238176

Greece

Recipe by aliki_ma

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Ingredients

25-30 pieces

300 gbutter
125 groasted almonds (coarsely cut)
110 gicing sugar
500 gflour
1/2 tspbaking powder
160 gchocolate couverture, melted
1/4 cupbrandy
For the glaze
chocolate couverture
milk
brandy

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Steps

1

Beat the butter and the icing sugar in the mixer until they get fluffy.
2

Add the almonds and the melted chocolate couverture.
3

Sift the flour with the baking powder and then add them into the mixture together with the brandy.
4

Set aside the dough to firm in the fridge for 1-2 hours, then roll it out into a sheet of about 1 cm thick and using the cookie cutters that you like το cut it into the desired shapes. (If you don't have cookie cutters, form the dough into the traditional kourabiedes shape or use a glass turned upside down to cut the shapes).
5

Bake in a preheated oven for about 15-20 minutes at 170°C.
6

When they cool you can brush them with the glaze that you have aldready prepared by mixing melted chocolate couverture with a little bit of milk and brandy or just plain melted chocolate couverture.
7

Store in a metal container.