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recipe by Kenwood https://kenwoodworld.com/

  • Time icon
    Total Time
    32mins
  • Serves icon
    Serves
    12
  • Calories icon
    Calories
    429
based on 2 ratings

A delicious cake like biscuit popular in Germany with both children and adults. We have piped ours into 4 cm rounds, but you can make them as big or small as you like, just remember it might affect the baking time.

recipe updated Jul 26, 2023

Ingredients

  • Lemon icon
    Lemon
    1
  • Unsalted butter icon
    Unsalted butter
    250 g
  • Sugar icon
    Sugar
    200 g
  • Vanilla extract icon
    Vanilla extract
    2 teaspoons
  • Salt icon
    Salt
    ½ teaspoon
  • Egg icon
    Egg
    4
  • Buttermilk icon
    Buttermilk
    170 g
  • All purpose flour icon
    All purpose flour
    500 g
  • Cornstarch icon
    Cornstarch
    100 g
  • Baking powder icon
    Baking powder
    2 teaspoons
  • Icing sugar icon
    Icing sugar
    as needed
  • Water icon
    Water
    as needed
  • Cocoa powder icon
    Cocoa powder
    1 tablespoon

Tools

  • kCook icon Oven
  • kCook icon Kenwood Chef
  • kCook icon Piping bag
  • kCook icon Baking tray - large
  • kCook icon Small bowl
  • kCook icon Small bowl
  • kCook icon Piping bag

Step preview

  1. Preheat the oven to 180ºC
  2. Line a baking tray with parchment paper
  3. Fit the Whisk Tool
  4. Add the ingredients into the appliance bowl, fit the splashguard
  5. Whisk - 2 minutes, speed 4
  6. Add the next ingredients
  7. Whisk – 1 minute, speed 1
  8. Add the next ingredients
  9. Mix – 1 minute, speed Min
  10. Transfer the batter into a piping bag
  11. Pipe rounds about 4 cm wide, placing them 10 cm apart on the prepared baking tray
  12. Bake – 12 minutes, 180ºC
  13. Remove from the oven and let cool
  14. Add ingredients into a bowl
  15. Mix until combined then divide the icing in half
  16. Add cocoa powder to one half of the icing and mix until combined
  17. Transfer the icings into two separate piping bags
  18. Pipe half chocolate icing and half white icing on the flat side of the biscuits
  19. Let set
  20. Serve
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