Are you wondering how to please your sweetheart or do you just want to enjoy a delicious treat? Then these cookies are the obvious choice. The combination of delicious dough with fluffy frosting and freeze-dried fruit is simply irresistible. It’s an unmistakable combination of flavours that will have you on a love high.
Ingredients for the cookies:
- 100 g plain spelt flour
- 70 g xylitol
- 40 g butter
- 40 ml low fat milk
- 30 g chocolate drops or chips (if you don’t have any chocolate chips, chop any chocolate into pieces)
- 25 g beetroot powder
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Ingredients for the quark frosting:
- 100 g fat-free soft quark
- 50 g mascarpone
- vanilla flavour drops to taste
- a pinch of beetroot powder
Ingredients to decorate cookies:
- handful lyophilized strawberries
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Method:
Start by preparing the dough. In a large bowl, mix the sifted flour with xylitol, beetroot powder and baking powder. Add softened butter (must not be liquid), milk, vanilla extract and knead the dough by hand. It should have a firm and non-sticky consistency. Finally, stir in about 20 g of chocolate chips, and set the rest aside. Form the dough into 9 equal sized balls and place them on a baking tray lined with baking paper. Then press each one with the palm of your hand and shape them to resemble round cookies. Squeeze the remaining chocolate chips into the cookies as desired for decoration. Place the cookies in a preheated oven at 180 °C and bake for 12 minutes.
While the cookies are baking, carry on with the frosting. In a bowl, whisk together quark, mascarpone, flavour drops and a pinch of beetroot powder to give the cream a pink tinge. The resulting mixture should have a smooth and fluffy consistency. Put it in the fridge while you wait for the cookies to finish baking.
Allow them to cool completely and spread evenly with the prepared frosting. Finally, sprinkle with crushed lyophilized strawberries and you’re all set.
Our tip: The cookies taste even better when you share them with your loved ones.
Nutritional values | 1 cookie with quark frosting (9 cookies in total) |
|---|---|
| Energy value | 135 kcal |
| Protein | 3.5 g |
| Carbohydrates | 14.5 g |
| Fats | 7 g |
These cookies are literally heaven on a plate. The pink colour will capture your attention and amaze your taste buds from the very first bite.
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