Zimtstern German Cinnamon Macaroons

Cookies Zimtstern, translated from German - - - cinnamon stars, Germans traditionally bake at Christmas. You can add food coloring to the icing to add flavor to the cookies. Or, while the icing is still fresh, sprinkle the cookies with confectionery decorations.

Ingredients

• 250 g almond flour
• 200 g icing sugar + more to roll
• 2 large egg whites
• 1 tsp lemon juice
• zest of 1 lemon
• 2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 tsp ginger powder

Directions

1. Beat the egg whites with a mixer on medium speed until fluffy, adding lemon juice in the middle of whipping. Continuing to beat, gradually add the icing sugar, beat until firm foam. Set aside 1/4 of the protein mass for garnish.
2. Mix almond flour with spices and zest; stirring gently with a spatula from bottom to top, add the bulk of the whipped protein. You will get a sticky, thick dough.
3. Place the dough on a sheet of baking paper sprinkled with powdered sugar. Sprinkle on top with more powder, put the second sheet and gently roll out with a layer of 7-10 mm. Cut out the cookies with curly star tins, remove the excess dough. On each cookie, carefully lay out the whipped egg whites, flatten. Bake at 150 ° C for 12-15 minutes.