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Chocolate Crackles "5 O'Clock Tea"

4 servings

Ingredients

• 200 g butter
• 80 g Sugar
• 20 g Cocoa powder
• 1 Prise Vanilla sugar
• 3 Stk Eggs
• 1 Stk Egg yolk
• 180 g Flour
• Apricot jam (nach Bedarf)
• chocolate glaze (nach Bedarf)
• Hazelnuts (chopped) (nach Bedarf)
• Pistachios (chopped) (nach Bedarf)

Instructions

1. Cream butter with sugar, cocoa powder and vanilla sugar.
2. Gradually incorporate the three eggs and the yolk.
3. Finally, work in the flour.
4. Pipe the dough in walnut-sized heaps onto baking paper and bake at good heat (approximately 180 °C).
5. Sandwich two pieces together with apricot jam.
6. Dip the crackles vertically to halfway into lukewarm liquid chocolate glaze and immediately sprinkle with chopped hazelnuts and pistachios.

Based on a cookbook by Hans Hofer (1964), adapted with AI.