Are you already done with all your Christmas cookies? Do you want more or are you already sick of all that sweet stuff? ;) Well – in case you are done with cookies this season, bookmark these fellas here and come back next year. They will be waiting for you. If you want/need more Christmas cookies, get your oven ready – we are making Marble Christmas Sandwich Cookies!
These kinds of cookies are pretty common here in Germany for Christmas – but they look different normally. Sandwich Cookies like these here are called “Spitzbuben” or “Hildabrötchen” – depending on how you make the dough. But they all look the same: small sandwich cookies with jam filling and loads of confectioners’ sugar on top. Everybody loves them because they are really delicious ;)
I also got a recipe for Chocolate Spitzbuben here on the blog – another way to prepare these classic Christmas cookies. Today I kind of mixed everything together and made two doughs – a classic one and one with cocoa and mixed everything together to get that marble effect. The dark dough is not the same one I used for the Chocolate Spitzbuben. To get a nice marble effect I used black cocoa to intensify the difference between the two colored doughs.
Regarding the dough – make sure to combine the two colors properly to get the marble effect, but do not overwork the dough. The more you knead the more those two doughs connect and kind of melt into one another. If you knead too much you will end up with one kind of grey colored dough and almost no marble effect. So keep that in mind. If you need to let out some anger by kneading dough excessively you might want to make bread dough and go nuts with that one. Be gentle to this one here ;)
The filling can be anything you like – I prefer raspberry jam but orange marmalade is also fine, as well as blueberry jam, cherry jam… just make sure it is smooth without any big berries or seeds. It should be a smooth jam so everything sticks together well. You can also use chocolate or caramel. Whatever you like basically ;)
INGREDIENTS / ZUTATEN
For the light dough:
2 cups (250g) all-purpose flour
3/4 tsp. baking powder
2.7 oz. (75g) sugar
pinch of salt
1/2 cup (125g) butter, at room temperature
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
1 medium egg
For the dark dough:
2 cups (250g) all-purpose flour
1/3 cup (40g) black cocoa powder
3/4 tsp. baking powder
1/4 cup (50g) sugar
1/2 cup (125g) butter, at room temperature
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
1 medium egg
1 glass (about 340g) jam (e.g. orange or raspberry)
Für den hellen Teig:
250g Mehl (Type 405)
3/4 TL Backpulver
75g Zucker
Prise Salz
125g weiche Butter
1/2 TL Vanille Extrakt
1 Ei (M)
Für den dunklen Teig:
250g Mehl (Type 405)
40g schwarzer Kakao
3/4 TL Backpulver
50g Zucker
125g weiche Butter
1 Ei (M)
1 Glas (ca. 340g) Marmelade (z.B. Orangenmarmelade)
The cookies are good to eat as soon as they are sandwiched together. But to be honest – they are better when they had 1-2 days of resting time. The filling makes the cookies kind of softer and the flavors are distributed throughout the cookies so everything tastes better ;)
DIRECTIONS / ZUBEREITUNG
2. Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Line several baking sheets with baking parchment and set aside. Take both doughs out of the fridge and shape into 8″ (20cm) long logs. Place those logs next to each other and start braiding/twisting them to connect the two doughs and to get that marble effect. Shape into a ball but do not knead too much. The more you knead that two colors together the finer the marble effect will get but also the darker the dough will turn because the black is quite “dominant” ;) Roll out half of the dough on a floured surface (place the rest in the fridge) and cut out cookies with and without a hole in the center. Look for a nice marble effect for the cookies that have the hole because they will be on top at the end. Place the dough pieces on the baking sheets and bake one sheet at a time for about 10-12 minutes. Take out of the oven and transfer to a cooling rack. Make more cookies out of the leftover dough by collecting leftover dough and rolling it out again. The last cookies will probably be darker than the first ones because you worked the dough much more.
3. Add some jam on the cooled cookies without a hole in the middle and press a cookie with a hole in the middle on top to create a sandwich cookie. Let dry and store in tin boxes.
2. Den Ofen auf 180°C (350°F) vorheizen. Mehrere Bleche mit Backpapier auslegen und zur Seite stellen. Die Teige aus dem Kühlschrank holen und jeweils zu einer etwa 20cm langen Wurst formen – diese beiden Teigwürste dann nebeneinander legen und miteinander verdrehen und dann zur Kugel zusammendrücken, damit sich die Teige vermischen. Je mehr ihr den Teig verdreht und zusammendrückt, umso feiner wird der Marmor-Effekt – der Teig wird aber auch mit jeder weiteren Verarbeitung dunkler, weil der dunkle Teig immer dominanter wird. Hälfte des Teiges auf einer bemehlten Fläche ausrollen (den Rest in den Kühlschrank legen) und Plätzchen mit und ohne Loch in der Mitte ausstechen. Bei den Plätzchen mit Loch etwas genauer auf die Marmorieren achten, weil die am Ende ja oben sind ;) Auf die Bleche setzen und dann die Bleche einzeln je 10-12 Minuten backen. Aus dem Ofen holen und die Kekse auf einem Kuchengitter abkühlen lassen. Die Teigreste noch einmal zusammenkneten, ausrollen und weitere Plätzchen ausstechen – so lange bis der gesamte Teig aufgebraucht ist. Die letzten Plätzchen werden vermutlich dunkler sein, weil der Teig länger bearbeitet wurde.
3. Von den abgekühlten Plätzchen die Plätzchen ohne Loch in der Mitte mit etwas Marmelade bestreichen und dann ein Plätzchen mit Loch daraufsetzen und festdrücken. Trocknen lassen und dann in einer Blechdose aufbewahren.
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Here is a version of the recipe you can print easily.
PrintMarble Christmas Sandwich Cookies
- Prep Time: 30m
- Cook Time: 12m
- Total Time: 2h
- Yield: 75
- Category: Cookies
- Cuisine: German
Description
A new take on a classic German Christmas bake: Marble Christmas Sandwich Cookies aka. Spitzbuben. Shortbread sandwich cookies with jam filling.
Ingredients
Instructions
Notes
Enjoy baking!