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Badener Chrabeli
Little Claws from Baden
Preparation info
- Makes about
48
cookies - Difficulty
Medium
Appears in
Published 2000
This is the same dough used to prepare Anisbroetli in an alternate shape. I have no idea of the significance of the claw shape. I suspect that slashing the dough helps it bake through more efficiently. I have seen the same cookies referred to as cockscombs in an old Swiss baking book.
Ingredients
½ batch
Method
- Roll the dough under the palms of your hands to form a cylinder. Divide into six equal parts.
- Roll one part into a rope about 16 inches long, then cut the rope into eight 2-inch pieces. Repeat with the remaining pieces of dough.
- Flatten each piece of dough very slightly, then slash one side three or four times with the point of a sharp paring knife, a