Americans
Ingredients
Dough
- 125 g butter
- 80 g sugar
- 1 vanilla sugar
- 1 pinch of salt
- 2 eggs
- 40 g yoghurt
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- lemon flavouring
- 250 g flour
- 7 g baking powder
Icing
- 120 g icing sugar
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 2 tsp milk
- lemon flavouring
Instructions
- For the Americans, preheat the oven to 180 degrees top/bottom heat.
- Cream the butter with the sugar, vanilla sugar and salt in a bowl and gradually add both eggs, stirring until everything is combined. Then stir in the yoghurt, lemon juice and lemon flavouring. Finally, quickly add the flour and baking powder until everything is combined. The dough should not be too soft!
- Using 2 tablespoons, place tablespoon-sized dough balls on a baking tray with baking paper.
- If you have a piping bag, you can also fill it with the dough and pipe the dough onto the baking paper. No nozzle is needed.
- Use wet fingers to shape the piles of dough into the desired shape.
- Bake for about 12-15 minutes until the edges are golden brown, but don't leave them in the oven too long to keep them moist.
- Meanwhile, in a small bowl, mix the icing sugar, lemon juice, milk and lemon flavouring until you have a thick glaze. The milk is for making the icing nice and white.
- Use a teaspoon to glaze the still-warm Americans on the flat underside with the icing and decorate as desired with sprinkles, Smartis and co.
- Tip: You can pre-bake the Americans well and freeze them unglazed. When you need them and take them out, immediately spread the icing on the frozen Americans. This sets super quickly and the Americans also thaw out quickly.
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