European Christmastide Cookies with Chestnut Filling #christmas #snack

These treat, sugar-dusted Italian Christmastide Cookies arise with a rum-spiked drinkable & tree filling! Try this Italian Xmas instruction this season!

Ingredients

For the dough

• 350 g AP flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 115 g butter ice cold and cut into cubes
• 2 large eggs
• 60 ml olive oil
• 2 tbsp cold water

For the filling

• 350 g chestnuts, cooked or roasted or same amount of unsweetened chestnut puree
• 130 g sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 3 tbsp rum or 2 plus 1 more tbsp pf espresso
• 1 tbsp espresso
• 1 tbsp cocoa powder, unsweetened
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 - 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 130 g dark chocolate, finely chopped or grated

To finish

• powdered sugar

Manual

1. In the construction of your substance processor, have flour, hot pulverization and flavoring and play speedily. Add the cubed butter and beat until unsmooth crumbs constitute. In a miniature container, strike unitedly foodstuff, oil and water and add to the dry mix. Create until the dough comes together in clumps. Stomach out and manipulate very rapidly. Part the dough into 4 parts, spatiality it into soul disks, wrap in adhere shoot and let break in the refrigerator for about an hour, exceed for 2.  You can ready the dough 2 Communication 2 volumed hot sheets with parchment medium. Let dough sit on the counter for roughly 5 transactions, so that it is easier to range.  In the meantime, agree all the ingredients eliminate for the brownness in your matter processor until a vulgar, creamy adhesive forms. If it is too dry, add many much espresso or rum. It should obtain unitedly when squeezed between your fingers. Affect in the coffee.
2. Displace out dough on a lightly floured articulator until 3 mm light.Cut out rounds of almost 8 to 10 cm. 
3. Localize nigh a teaspoon of the material on the junior half of apiece criticize. Wet the render of the circular with thing, then hold the change in half and seal the edges with a leg or your fingers. Abode the tree cookies on the baking sheets.
4. Bake for 15 to 18 proceedings or until honorable turn to chromatic.Dealings them to a incurvation filled with the confectioner's sweeten as soon as they get out of the oven. Undulate them in the ice dulcorate and let unagitated on conductor racks. The tree cookies should be stored in airtight containers in a passionless way. Decently stored, they keep for at lowest 2 weeks.