Approximately 24 pieces

For the dough:
250 g flour
* 100 g acc. Hazelnuts
* ½ tsp acc.
* 100 g sugar cinnamon
* 1 pinch salt
* 200 g butter
* ½ egg (size M)

To garnish:
½ egg (size M)
* 3-4 tablespoons milk
* 50 g * 50 g peeled cherries, halved almonds
* 20 g * 20 g chopped pistachio hazelnuts

Method:
For the dough with flour, hazelnuts and cinnamon in a mixing bowl.

Add remaining ingredients and whisk with dough hook to work with first briefly at the lowest, well then at the highest level. Then knead on a lightly floured work surface briefly into a dough.

Place the dough in cling film wrapped set 1-2 hours in the refrigerator.

Preheat the oven. Top and bottom heat: about 180 ° C, hot air is about 160 ° C.

Knead the dough briefly and roll out on lightly floured surface about ½ inch thick.

Cut out with cookie cutters arbitrary patterns (diameter about 7 cm). For each cookie with a Lochtülle (about ½ inch diameter) poke a hole for hanging.

the scraps back together knead, roll out again and cut out other motives - several times until the dough is used up. The cookies on baking sheets (greased, lined with baking paper) set. This leave enough space between the cookies.

to Garnish half the egg with the milk devious. The cookies spread with the eggs milk and top with cherries, almonds, pistachios and hazelnuts.

the baking sheets in succession move (along with hot air) in the preheated oven. The cookies bake about 10 minutes per baking sheet .

the cookies with the parchment paper from baking sheets to cool on cake racks and pull can.

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