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By Heinz Tschabitscher, About.com Guide to Email since 1997

Dashing Through the Snow Stationery

Wednesday December 22, 2004
Dashing Through the Snow StationeryI made some of my favorite Christmas cookies yesterday. (They are called Rauhnigel, and you can find an attempt of a version of a recipe below.) As I was stirring chocolate, a splash of snow suddenly fell out of thin air and a clear sky. I think I have an idea where it was coming from:
Santa is dashing through the snowy air. (Outlook, Outlook Express)

Rauhnigel (Coconut Cubes)

(Recipes for Rauhnigel are difficult to find and I have lost the original, so this is the result of experimental modification of something not completely different but not completely the same either. It is far from perfect and relies on a "just the right amount" style of baking too much to be called a "recipe". Additionally, the conversion to American measurements has probably done some added damage or maybe unexpected good.)

Ingredients

225 g (2 cups) confectioners' sugar
3 eggs, separated
185 ml (3/4 cup) coffee
1 teaspoon cinnamon
3 tablespoons honey
30 g (1/8 cup) melted butter
375 g (3 1/4 cups) all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder

For the chocolate dipping sauce:
250 g (1 cup) butter
330 g (4/5 pound) baking chocolate
12 tablespoons rum
6 tablespoons cream
500 g coconut flakes

Directions

  1. Heat oven to 180°C (355°F).
  2. Whip egg whites until stiff (but not dry). Sift flour and baking powder. Set both aside.
  3. Cream sugar, melted butter, honey, egg yolks, cinnamon and a few tablespoons of coffee until fluffy.
  4. Fold in the whipped egg white and the flour as well as the rest of the coffee.
  5. Put the dough on a baking sheet about 2cm (0.8 inch) high, bake for 15 minutes.
  6. Allow to cool and cut in small cubes.

  1. For the chocolate dipping sauce, melt the butter over hot (not boiling) water and add the chocolate in small pieces.
  2. Stir in rum and cream.
  3. Bath cubes in the chocolate sauce. Let them soak in quite a bit.
  4. Roll cubes in coconut flakes.

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