Punch Ducats
10th day of Advent
Ingredients:
- 300g Wheat flour
- 200g Soft butter
- 100g Powdered sugar
- 100g Ground almonds
- + Vanilla sugar
- + Pinch of salt
Knead all ingredients into a smooth dough, wrap in foil and allow to rest for a few hours. Then roll out the dough 3mm thick and cut out small rounds bottoms (diameter about 3-4cm). Place on a baking sheet and bake at 185°C.
Punch filling:
- 100g Ground almonds
- 100g Roasted hazelnuts, coarsely chopped
- 100g Honey
- 70g Rum (Stroh)
- 50g Water
- 50g Brown sugar/ granulated sugar
- + Vanilla sugar
For the punch filling heat together the honey, water, sugar, and vanilla sugar. Then stir in the ground almonds, nuts, and rum and fill into a piping bag and pipe onto the baked biscuit bottoms.
To finish glaze with punch glaze and decorate with maraschino cherries, sugar pearls or chopped pistachios.