the perfect occasion to show off my handsewn tea bags...with a cookie attached to the tea bag, they are not only cute, but also very handy.
...again the almond and marzipan cookies are gluten-free and made with a few ingredients only and you will find the recipe right at the end of this post.
this is what you need for the teabags
- tea or coffee filter
- heart-shaled cookie cutter
- pencil
- scissors
- thread
- tea
- small spoon
this is what you have to do
- get one of the tea filters, your cookie cutter and stencil ready
- use your cookie cutter as a stencil and draw a heart onto a folded filter
- you might get two hearts out of one tea filter
- cut the filter in two halves
- get your thread and your scissors ready
- cut the thread in the desired lengths
- insert the folded thread in the middle of two tea filter layers
- the best position seems to be the centre of the heart
- sew along the edges of the heart
- leave an opening for inserting the tea
- cut along the seam...you need to be a bit careful close to the thread
- so far so good
- pretty already
- get your tea and a little spoon ready
- fill the tea into the teabag
- it might get a little messy
- close the open seem
- and here they are...the heart-shaped teabags
- attach one cookie to each teabag, by pulling the thread through the hole of the cookie heart
- and that's it
the idea for the handsewn teabag is from:
http://www.merrimentdesign.com/handsewn-teabags-tied-to-yummy-cookies.php
and this is what you actually need to bake the cookies
- 200g grounded almonds
- 200g marzipan
- 100g icing sugar
- 100g sugar
- 1 egg white
- dash of lemon juice
- 1 straw
this is what you have to do
- kneat all ingredients into a ball
- let rest in the fridge for 1 hour
- roll out the dough
- cut out hearts
- use your straw to cut out a hole in each heart
- bake for seven to ten minutes at 160 degrees celcius
- let cool down
the original german recipe can be found here:
http://bom-glutenfrei.blogspot.de/2014/04/osterplatzchen.html
i hope you enjoyed this post...thank you very much for visiting me...best regards...silke
