The Czechs bake cookies for Christmas. There are small pieces of confectionery. Some families prepare about five kinds of them, others thirty! You can buy it in a shop but if you prepare it by yourself it will taste better. Try an easy recipe for white and dark small balls.

Czech Christmas cookies

White small balls

We need:

150 grams of grated coconut + 15 grams for coating

120 grams of white chocolate

80 grams of butter (must be soft)

1 small bag of vanilla sugar (20 grams)

60 grams of powdered sugar

1 tablespoon of rum

1. Great the chocolate.

2. Mix all ingredients together with your hands.

3. Make smooth pastry and put it into the fridge for an hour.

4. Then create small balls, you will have about 65–70.

5. Coat each of them in coconut.

Dark small balls

We need:

150 grams of grated cocoa + 10 grams for coating

120 grams of dark chocolate

80 grams of butter (must be soft)

1 small pocket of vanilla sugar (20 grams)

60 grams of powdered sugar

1 tablespoon of rum

The instructions are the same. Just cocoa instead of coconut.

Look at the video where Ewelina and Sadi make this cookie.

Did you succeed? And did you enjoy it? You can find other recipes in an e-book Learn Czech in the kitchen or on the Czech Cookbook website.

And what do you like baking?

This text is in the Czech version.

18th December 2018

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