Christmas recipe from our kitchen team

Prepare shortcrust pastry biscuits: For the dough, mix butter, sugar and flour with a pinch of salt until smooth. Place the dough in the fridge for about 1 hour. Then take the dough out of the fridge onto a floured surface and roll out to the thickness of approx. 3 mm. Preheat the oven to 180°C/160°C fan/gas 4. Use a cookie cutter to stamp out small pastry bases, about 4 cm in diameter. Place them on a baking tray covered with baking paper. Bake in the preheated oven for 8-10 minutes until golden.

For the peanut cream, beat the icing sugar, vanilla and butter with an electric whisk until light and fluffy. Gradually add the peanut butter and blend. Then fold in a dash of pine schnapps. Transfer the mixture to a piping bag with a very fine nozzle and set aside at room temperature.

For the cream, whip the cream and vanilla first slowly and then at increasing speed until it has doubled in volume and sticks to the whisk. Our advice: add cream stabilizer for a lighter and fluffier cream. Pour the cream into another piping bag with a nozzle and refrigerate.

After baking, spread the cranberry jam on the pastry bases and pipe even cones of vanilla cream onto the pastry bases.

Garnish the ‘Wildspitzen’ with the peanut cream and dust with icing sugar. Well done!