Little Wreaths (Berlinerkranser)
Prep Time: 30 min
Cook Time: 10 Min
Serves 4 Servings
Difficulty Easy
Ingredients
- 2 large eggs
- 1 C. Crisco® Butter Flavor All-Vegetable Shortening
- 1 C. powdered sugar
- 2 large hard-boiled egg yolks
- 1 tsp. Spice Islands® Pure Vanilla Extract
- 1 tsp. Spice Islands® Pure Almond Extract
- 4 tsp. water
- 2 1/4 C. all-purpose flour
- Green colored sugar crystals
- 12 red candied cherries
Directions
- SEPARATE eggs. Beat eggs whites lightly. Chill. Beat shortening and powdered sugar in large bowl on medium speed with electric mixer until well blended. Beat in hard-boiled egg yolks, uncooked egg yolks, vanilla, almond extract and water. Beat in flour, 1/4 C. at a time, until well blended. Cover and refrigerate 3 hours.
- HEAT oven to 350ºF. Line cookie sheet with parchment paper. Allow dough to stand at room temperature until it becomes easy to handle.
- DIVIDE dough into 2 equal portions. Cut each portion into 24 equal pieces. Roll each piece of dough into a 5-inch long rope. Form each rope into wreath or loop 1 1/2 inches apart on prepared cookie sheet, overlapping both ends. Brush each wreath with reserved egg white. Sprinkle with colored sugar crystals. Lightly press cherry piece into top of each wreath.
- BAKE 12 to 15 minutes or until edges are lightly browned. Cool on cookie sheets 2 minutes. Transfer to wire racks to cool completely.
