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“Eisenbahner ” Railroad Cookies – a Folksy unique Christmas cookie recipe from Austria with almond paste and jam filling

Nina — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 20:31:02 +0000

This year, I have a unique holiday cookie recipe for you. Delicious “Railroad” cookies. Buttery chocolate shortbread, delicate marzipan cream, and aromatic tart-sweet orange marmalade combined in one cookie. You name it- taste explosion predetermined And they have a super cool name! It looks like a railroad track, hence the name Eisenbahner, which means railroad man in German.

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What are Eisenbahner – “Railroad” Christmas cookies

Every year at Christmas I take it upon myself to try a new Christmas cookie recipe, simply to be able to surprise my loved ones with something new in the Christmas cookie jar.

This year, I have chosen a traditional Christmas cookie recipe from my grandmother and made it my own “Homemade holiday cookies with a twist” . Eisenbahner in Englisch “Railroad” Cookies. The recipe originates in Austria and Germany, but unfortunately, I couldn’t find any more facts about the recipe.

Railroad cookies consist of a crispy shortbread base, left and right; an incredibly delicious almond paste is sprayed in a strip that looks like train tracks. After baking, the center is still filled with a delicious jam, and the cookies are cut.
Now, the cookies sound super elaborate, but they are not. The cookies are baked in long “railroad” rails and cut into individual cookies. So you get a lot of cookies made quickly and with little effort. Great, right?!?

“Railroad” Christmas cookies but my way.

Originally, railroaders were made with a light shortbread base and a fruity berry jam smeared on top. But…. I prefer something more chocolatey and love the combination of chocolate and orange. That’s why I have a chocolate shortcrust pastry and take an aromatic sweet-tart orange marmalade as a jam. Simply incredibly ingenious in taste

Some thoughts and tips on this vintage Christmas cookie recipe

Firstly, please use cold butter for the shortbread.
I grease the work surface and the dough roller well to make it easier to move the dough strips.
The jam must be warmed in the microwave and then stirred with a spoon until smooth.
I pipe the almond mixture on immediately after the 1st baking of the dough strips.
If you have shortbread left over just cut out a few cookies
Instead of orange marmalade I love to use raspberry or currant jam both harmonizes with the chocolate shortbread also quite wonderful.
The cookies can be stored in the refrigerator or in a cool place up to 3 weeks.

grating the marzipan (almond paste)

adding the tracks

Orange jam it is .

Now we cut the cookies.

voilá – ready to enjoy .

Hopefully, I could convince you with my enthusiasm and rapture to try my recipe for “Railroad” Christmas cookies this year. It’s a unique holiday cookie flavor combination.

Lastly if you make these Railroad Christmas treats, be sure to leave a comment and/or give this recipe a rating! Above all, I love to hear from you guys and always do my best to respond to each and every comment. And of course, if you do make this recipe, don’t forget to tag us on Instagram! Looking through the photos of recipes you all have made is my favorite .

Sweet hugs

Nina

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Railroad Christmas Cookies – a folksy Austrian Christmas Cookie Recipe

5 from 44 votes

Recipe by Nina Course: christmas cookies, DessertCuisine: austrian

Servings

Prep time

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Cooking time

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Calories

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resting time

minutes

These are delicious, easy Austrian Christmas cookies. These cookies are made of a crisp chocolate short pastry dough. The side tracks are made of a marzipan egg white sugar paste and filled in the middle with a tangy orange marmalade. One batch contain 80 cookies and the recipe is done in about 90 minutes.

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Ingredients

Chocolate short pastry dough
240 g 240 flour all purpose
160 g 160 butter unsalted, cut into small cubes
80 g 80 sugar
2 tbsp 2 cocoa powder unsweetened ,for example bensdorp
1 pinch 1 salt
1/2 tsp 1/2 baking powder
1 1 egg yolk
1 tbsp 1 vanilla sugar
1 tbsp 1 water optional, if you feel that the dough is dry and crumbly add 1 or 2 tbsp to the dough .
Almond paste tracks filling
200 g 200 almond paste also known as marzipan, cooled in the fridge for 1 hour
15 g 15 butter room temperature
1 1 egg white
20 g 20 powdered sugar
1 tbsp 1 ground almonds
400 g 400 orange jam fine cut, for the filling

Directions

Chocolate short pastry dough
In a bowl of a stand mixer with the paddle attachment on mix together the flour and butter until everything looks like ground nuts .
Add all the other ingredients and mix until the dough comes together.
If the dough is dry and crumbly add 1 tbsp and mix again . Add another if the dough still feels crumbly and won't come together.
Form the dough into a ball and wrap it with cling fling and put it for 10 minutes into the fridge.
Method 1
After the resting time form a log.
Dust your surface lightly with flour that the dough will not stick to the surface when rolled out. Dust your rolling pin as well.
Now roll the lock into a rectangle 36cm x 35cm
Cut 4 stripes lengths wise .
Transfer the dough stripes with the help of a spatula or dough card carefully onto a backing tray prepared with baking paper.
If the dough stripes tear don't worry just stick them together. Use a dough card to bring the stripes back into a rectangular form if necessary.
You might need to use 2 baking trays to bake all 4 stripes.
Bake the chocolate short pastry stripes for 10 minutes at 175C fan (350F)
Method 2
Take the chocolate dough out of the fridge and cut into 4 equal parts .
Roll every part into a log about 30 cm long.
Lightly dust a parchment paper with flour put 2-3 logs onto the parchment paper. Leave some space between the logs and roll them into rectangular stripes which are 35 cm long and 8cm wide.
Repeat that process with the other logs.
Bake the stripes for 10 minutes at 175C Fan (350F)
Almond paste filling
First crate the almond paste with a rough grater.
Then mix in a mixing bowl of a stand mixer with the whisk attached the egg white with the sugar until stiff and glossy .
Now whisk in another bowl the grated almond paste, ground almonds and the butter together.
Add half of the stiff egg white mixture and fold it into the almond butter batter .
Add the rest of the egg white mixture and fold it in again.
Fill the batter into a piping bag with a 1cm (0,25 inch) open star piping tip (Number 19 or 20)
When the chocolate cookie dough stripes are baked for 10 minutes let them slightly cool and then start piping the tracks.
Pipe two tracks on each side of every chocolate cookie stripe and bake again for 10 more minutes.
Jam filling
When the baking time is almost over pour the orange jam into a bowl and reheat it for 1-2 minutes in your microwave. The orange jam should be at body temperature . Stir the jam with a spoon until smooth.
Take the baking trays out of the oven and fill the middle of every strip with the orange jam.
Let the train track stripes sit for about 10 minutes and then cut them into train track cookie slices. Every cookie should be about 1,5cm large (thats about 0,6 inch).
Transfer the cookies onto a cooling rack and let them cool completely .
When the cookies are cooled you can store them into airtight cookie boxes but make sure to put a piece of baking parchment between the cookies before you add the cookies on top of each other.
Store the cookies in your fridge. They will stay good and delicious for up to 3 weeks.
Have a lovely christmas time with your family and I hope you love those cookies as much as we do.

Nutrition Facts

Calories: 57kcal
Carbohydrates: 8g
Protein: 1g
Fat: 3g
Saturated Fat: 1g
Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.2g
Monounsaturated Fat: 1g
Trans Fat: 0.1g
Cholesterol: 7mg
Sodium: 18mg
Potassium: 19mg
Fiber: 0.3g
Sugar: 5g
Vitamin A: 61IU
Vitamin C: 0.2mg
Calcium: 9mg
Iron: 0.2mg

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Fudgy chocolate orange bundt cake with orange flavored caramel sauce

Nina — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 20:29:15 +0000

Here you get a delicious chocolate dessert recipe for fudgy chocolate orange bundt cake with a decadent orange flavored caramel sauce. The bundt cake is a super easy recipe you even don’t need a mixer for combining the ingredients. The chocolate cake recipe is bursting with flavors because of the added orange marmalade and that homemade orange flavored caramel adds some decadency to everything ?.

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My favorite chocolate cake recipe : Fudgy chocolate orange Bundt Cake with orange flavored caramel sauce

Everybody needs a favorite chocolate cake recipe. An easy recipe which is whisked together in no time . Because when the craving hits I don’t want to fuss around for hours.

My favorite chocolate cake is fudgy and moist because I’m not a caky kind of cake person ?. Uniqueness and lots of flavor that’s what I was looking for too.

Years later I still bake this deliciousness. Every time I need a quick cake, every time we need a chocolate cake for Sunday afternoons, every time we need something comforting to dry the tears of frustration or sadness. So…yes. That chocolate cake recipe gets made very often in our home.

Today I would like to share the recipe with you and I truly hope it comforts you as much as it does comfort us.

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The Recipe for this cake is super easy.

For the cake we only need a medium sized heavy bottom saucepan . Before I start I butter and flour the cake bundt form and sieve together in a medium bowl the flower , baking powder and cardamom.

Start with melting the butter in the saucepan over medium heat.
When melted I’m adding the chopped chocolate and leave it for 30 seconds on the cooktop and then turn off the heat and leave it be for another minute.
Then Im whisking everything together with a wooden spoon or a spatula until smooth.
Now I’m adding the orange jam ( I always use my homemade decadent vanilla and Rosemary orange jam), the eggs, sugar and the salt to the chocolate butter mixture and mix everything again with the wooden spoon or spatula until its a homogenous batter.
At last I’m adding in 3 parts the flour mixture and mix again .
Im pouring everything into the prepared cake form and bake it for about 50 minutes .

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IMPORTANT:

When I’m taking out the cake from the oven I leave it on the kitchen counter for about 10 minutes. After that I carefully put a plate upside down on the opening of the bundt cake form and while holding everything together with kitchen towels, I’m turning the cake onto the plate. BUT I don’t take off the form. I’m leaving the form on top for another 15 minutes covered with kitchen towels. This way the bundt cake becomes extra moist.

The homemade orange flavored caramel sauce

It’s simple.

Firstly I’m whisking together the sugar and the orange juice until dissolved in a heavy bottom saucepan.
Then I let everything gently bubble over medium heat and wait, while occasionally stirring, that the bubbles turn into light amber brown colored bubbles.
When the mixture is changing color its time to turn off the heat and adding whisking in the heavy cream. But be careful its extremely hot and you could get burnt easily by the caramelized sugar.

What I like about this chocolate orange bundt cake recipe.

What I love the moist about this cake is that you don’t need any fancy kitchen gadgets.
The bundt cake on its own is already bursting with flavors because of the orange jam and the cardamom. This means you can eat that cake with a simple sprinkle of powdered sugar and its already enough and fantastic and simply delicious and comforting.
But IF you would like a little fanciness and decadency pour some of the caramel sauce on top.

I know when you make this chocolate cake recipe you will immediately fall in love with it because its so good. So please say “HI” and leave my some kind words and give it 5 .

What I love the most is hearing from you guys. Let me know what you think about it. and of course, if you do make this recipe, don’t forget to also tag us on Instagram ?. Seeing your photos making our recipes, is our favorite thing to do ?.

Warm chocolate hugs, yours truly Nina

Oh! And here is the link to my Bundt Cake pan. It’s from Nordic Ware . My favorite Bundt Cake brand ?.

If you are looking for a fabulous Orange jam recipe I have one up on our blog for you: Decadent Vanilla and Rosemary flavored Orange Jam.

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Chocolate orange bundt cake with orange flavored caramel sauce

5 from 2 votes

Recipe by Nina Course: coffee cake, DessertCuisine: austrian, british

Servings

Prep time

minutes

Cooking time

minutes

Calories

511

kcal

This is hands down the best chocolate bundt cake ever the added orange jam makes the cake very moist and bursting with flavors. A drizzle of orange flavored caramel is the cherry on top.

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Ingredients

Orange flavored caramel
375 ml 375 white sugar
125 ml 125 fresh orange juice
250 ml 250 heavy cream
1/2 tsp 1/2 orange zest
Chocolate orange bundt cake
120 g 120 butter room temperatured
220 g 220 bittersweet chocolate chopped
200 ml 200 orange jam thinly cut or maybe you would like to give my rosemary orange jam a try
220 g 220 white sugar
1 pinch 1 salt
4 large 4 eggs room temperatured
260 g 260 all purpose flour
2 1/2 tsp 2 1/2 baking powder
1/4 tsp 1/4 ground cardamom
3 tbsp 3 butter for greasing the bundt cake form
3 tbsp 3 all purpose flour for shaking out the form

Directions

Orange flavored caramel sauce
In a heavy bottom sauce pan whisk together the sugar and fresh orange juice until dissolved.
Bring the liquid ot a gentle boil over medium heat with an ocassional whisk.
Boil the liquid until the bubbles turn light brown in color . This will take about 10 minutes.
turn off the heat and whisk in the heavy cream. But be careful its super hot.
Add the orange zest to the caramel and let it cool.
Orange Bundt cake
Preheat the oven to 175°Celsius (350°Fahrenheit)
Butter and flour a bundt cake form.
Mix flour, baking powder and cardamom in a medium sizend bowl togehter and put aside.
Melt the butter in a heavy bottom saucepan .
Add the chopped chocolate. leave it for a moment then turn off the heat.
With a wooden spoon or rubber spatula stir until butterand chocolate are a homogenous batter.
Add the orange marmelade, sugar, salt and eggs and mix with the wooden spoon or rubber spatula until smooth.
Beat in the flour mixture in 3 small portions.
Pour the batter into your prepared bundt cake form and bake for 50 minutes or until a wooden skewer comes out clean.
Take out the cake and let it set on a cooling rack for 10 minutes.
Turn the bundt cake form on a cake plate but leave the cake form on top for another 15 minutes before you take it off and let the cake cool completely .
Before serving drizzle some of the caramel sauce on top.
IMPORTANT: That cake is super delicious on its own, so when you dont have time for the caramel . Leave the caramel be. See the caramel as a little more decadency. But I will promise the cake alone will be enough to get a ton of compliments.

Equipment

bundt cake form

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size: 0g
Calories: 511kcal
Carbohydrates: 69g
Protein: 7g
Fat: 24g
Saturated Fat: 14g
Cholesterol: 111mg
Sodium: 164mg
Potassium: 314mg
Fiber: 3g
Sugar: 42g
Vitamin A: 538IU
Vitamin C: 1mg
Calcium: 94mg
Iron: 3mg

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