Alsace Bredele – Butter Biscuit with Marzipan
How is your Twixmas week? Hope you are enjoying a lovely week relaxing, shopping for bargains, visiting family and friends as well as cooking up a storm entertaining loved ones.
We are doing all this and more and sharing another delicious recipe which you can bake at home for family and friends to enjoy or add to your collection of recipes for next year’s Christmas baking.
Baking Bredeles at Christmas is popular in Alsace a region in France. The tradition is for each family to bake its own, and then offer them as a Christmas gift to neighbours.
Bredeles are biscuits or small cakes and we have shared a few of these biscuit recipes on our blog in the past, such as Anis Bredele, Boules de Linz Fourrees (Linz Biscuits with Jam), Les rochers à la noix de coco, Crackle Cookies, Chequered Biscuits and Printen Cookies.
Today we will be sharing one more to add to your collection, which is Butter Biscuits with Marzipan. Hope you enjoy baking these.
Ingredients for Butter Biscuit
300g butter (soft)
115g icing sugar
75g marzipan
Grated zest of a lemon
375g plain flour
Egg wash or milk and sugar
Method
Cream the butter and icing sugar until light and fluffy
Beat in the chopped up marzipan and lemon zest, add the flour and knead well
Divide the dough into 3 and form each piece into a roll about 4cm thick
Chill for 20 minutes (or it can be made the night before a kept in the fridge)
Brush the egg wash or milk over the dough and roll into the sugar so it is nicely coated
Cut into pieces 5mm thickness and place on a baking tray (they spread so leave space between them)
Bake at 180 C to 200 C (I baked them at 180C) for approx. 10 minutes or until lightly golden
Recipe by Brigitte Kershaw
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16 comments
Oh, yes. I can almost taste those right now! I absolutely love butter cookies, and the marzipan makes theme even better!
Yes it does indeed Beth
omg I am doing your recipe today and I can’t be more excited about it….I can imagine the burst in flavors….
So easy to make this and something you can do with kids as well
You are coming up with new recipes that are unique and flavorful. Would like to make these ones in my kitchen!
Thank you. These recipes have been around for a long time, so decided to share it with our UK based readers. Hope you enjoy making them
Sweets taste (and smell) delicious with Marzipan. One of my favorite scents and flavors. Merry Christmas!
Such a great cookies especially if you do love Marzipan
Those butter biscuits look so good. I definitely indulged in sweets this Christmas and I didn’t regret it. LOL.
Yes these are easy to make and they are delicious as well
I have never had Bredeles before! These butter biscuits look so yummy 😋 . I can’t wait to give this recipe a try!
Glad to hear that, let us know how it goes
This Bredeles recipe looks very delicious! Man I got to try it pretty soon!
Yes and easy to make it as well with limited ingredients
I like how simple but nice these cookies look! Thank you for sharing your recipe.
You are welcome, yes these are so easy to make