Biscuits Befanini for a sweet New Year

What's better to wish someone a sweet Christmas giving as a gift something really sweet, maybe we prepared? On the Christmas' sweets the Tuscan recipes are of a wide variety of biscuits and cakes that can be selected.

What I have decided to propose to you for these festivals is traditionally one of the recipes prepared in Tuscany in the early days of the new year, as the name reveals: the Befanini (from Befana, an old woman who brings the sweets to children for the epiphany).

Ingredients:
For the dough: 500 gr. flour, 100 gr. butter, lard nut, 200 gr. sugar, 2 eggs, 1 egg yolk, some 'milk (enough to make the dough consistent)
For the marzipan: walnuts, almonds and chopped egg clear (mounted)

Preparation:
The mixture should be kept in the refrigerator for about 10, 15 minutes and then laid out with rolling pin and then with the special shapes are obtained many biscuits with the shape of heart, star, Christmas tree ... Now you are ready to prepare marzipan, with a little bit of Alkermes and then spread the batter with a spoon on befanini. Now you only have to put them in the oven and let them brown and... Bon appetit!