Suitable for the EM: How to bake fluffy Americans in a football look

The perfect snack to watch the European Championship games: Americans in football look.

You can find out how to easily bake them yourself in this recipe.

Football fans have had to wait long enough: From June 11th, the European Championship will finally be all over again.

Are you looking together with friends and are you still looking for some suitable snacks?

Then we have exactly the right idea for dessert: home-

baked Americans with a football glaze

.

You only know Americans from the baker?

Then you should bake it yourself as soon as possible, because it is not difficult at all and the result, of course, tastes even better and fluffier than when you make it yourself.

Instead of a simple sugar or black-and-white glaze, these specimens have a football look.

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Baking Americans themselves: Recipe with a football-look glaze

For 12 Americans you will need the following ingredients:

• 150 g soft butter - with this trick hard butter becomes spreadable in a flash

• 125 g of sugar

• 1 packet of vanilla sugar

• 1 pinch of salt

• 2 eggs (size M)

• 1 teaspoon zest of organic lemon - Here's an ingenious trick for grating lemon peel

• 300 grams of flour

• 2 teaspoons of baking soda

• 5 tbsp milk

For the glaze:

• 260 g powdered sugar

• 7 tbsp lemon juice

• 1 bag of dark cake icing

• dark chocolate-flavored sugar script

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How to bake the Americans in football look

For the Americans:

Mix the softened butter, sugar, vanilla sugar and salt with the whisk of the hand mixer until frothy.

Add the eggs one by one and stir them in.

Then stir in the lemon zest.

Mix the flour and baking powder in a second bowl and work them alternately with the milk under the dough.

Preheat the oven to 180 ° C top / bottom heat (160 ° C hot air) and line two baking trays with baking paper.

Use a tablespoon to put twelve servings on the baking sheets.

Leave enough space as the dough will run apart during baking!

If necessary, push the piles of dough into shape with a damp knife.

Bake the Americans in the oven for about 15 minutes until golden.

If you use top / bottom heat, you have to push the trays into the oven one after the other; with convection / hot air you can bake everything at the same time.

The Americans shouldn't get too dark or they'll get dry.

Then let the pastry cool down.

Then carefully detach the Americans from the parchment paper with your hands and put them back on top of it upside down.

For the light glaze:

Mix the powdered sugar with the lemon juice and use a pastry brush or a tablespoon to spread the glaze onto the smooth underside of the Americans.

Let dry for about 30 minutes.

For the football look:

Put the bag of dark cake icing in a saucepan with hot water and leave it for about 10 minutes (depending on the instructions on the package).

Then dry and knead.

Using the sugar script, draw the contours of a pentagon in the middle of the Americans and create the typical football pattern.

Cut off one corner of the cake icing bag and use it to fill in the pentagons of the soccer balls.

Let everything dry for another 10 minutes.

And you have the perfect sweet

snack for soccer fans

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Have fun baking!

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