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Spice Balls

by Editorial Staff

Summary

Prep Time 45 mins
Total Time 1 hr 45 mins
Course Baking
Cuisine European
Servings (Default: 1)

Ingredients

  • 200 g butter, soft
  • 3 egg yolks
  • 100 g powdered suar
  • 1 packet vanilla sugar
  • 1 pinch (s) salt
  • 1 teaspoon gingerbread spice
  • 200 g flour
  • 1 teaspoon Baking powder
  • 30 g cocoa powder
  • 125 g hazelnuts, round
  • 100 g cake icin, whole milk
  • Pistachios, chopped (to taste)
  • Flour, for molding
Spice Balls
Spice Balls

Instructions

  1. Put butter egg yolks, powdered sugar, vanilla sugar, salt and gingerbread spices in a bowl. Mix everything with the whisk of the hand mixer until foamy.
  2. Sift in the flour, baking powder and cocoa powder and sprinkle the hazelnuts on top. Process all ingredients with the hand mixer to a smooth dough. Cover and chill the dough for an hour.
  3. Cover the baking sheet with baking paper.
  4. Turn the dough into walnut-sized balls with floured hands and place on the baking sheet 2-3 cm apart. Chill for 10 minutes.
  5. In the meantime, preheat the oven to 175 ° C.
  6. Bake the cookies in the oven for 10-15 minutes. Place on a wire rack to cool down.
  7. Chop the glaze and let it melt in a pot in a hot water bath. Dip the domes of the cookies in the glaze and sprinkle with pistachios as desired. Let the glaze dry for 20 minutes.
Editorial Staff

About Editorial Staff

The Boss Kitchen editorial staff oversees content review, fact-checking, and recipe verification across the site. Published articles pass through the editorial team before going live, ensuring ingredient lists, techniques, cooking times, and nutritional claims hold up in a home kitchen. The team coordinates contributions across the site writers, handles reader corrections, and maintains consistency in measurement conventions, safety guidance, and dietary labeling. Posts under this byline typically represent team-reviewed reference material, site announcements, or editorial roundups rather than individual-author features, and they are held to the same sourcing standards as bylined recipe and product coverage.

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