Christmas Cookies Variations

 I have taken all the books on the cookies, in German, which I found in the library. I did several tests and many Tyrolean people and Austrians gave me family and local recipes. Many many thanks! Then here we are the recipe for Christmas cookies with hazelnuts, cocoa, vanilla and Nutella!

INGREDIENTS:

1. 300 grams of flour 00 finely ground 
2. 100 grams of icing sugar
3. a vanilla bean
4. 1 egg
5. 200 grams of sugar
6. 2 tablespoons finely chopped hazelnuts
7. 1 tablespoon of Nutella
8. 1 tablespoon cocoa powder bitter
9. 12 whole hazelnuts for garnish
10. 3 tablespoons apricot jam to

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. in the planetary first put the icing sugar with the flour, chopped nuts, and seeds of the vanilla bean
2. add the butter and started to work, when the dough will become crumbled then add the egg and work again until your pastry will have formed
3. Divide the dough in half, leave one half white and put in the other half nutella and cocoa and mix together.
4. At this point take a piece from mixing chocolate and roll it out with a rolling pin with a thickness of about 5 mm, do the same with a piece of the white pastry
5. overlap the two shortbread white and dark, roll and spiral sliced ​​to obtain at least 20 swivels
6. with the remaining white spastry prepared the spitzbunen, which in this case will be flavored with hazelnut
7. and with the remaining mixture of cocoa prepared cookies with flower cutters then decorerete with hazelnuts
8. Bake in hot oven at 170 degrees for 12 minutes
9. pull them out of the oven and let cool on a wire rack, then put them in a tin box
10. so you keep up to 10 days