Food for Two

Salima and David:

The way I see it, sitting around a table over well prepared food is what makes strangers into friends and friends into family. So, many wishes for plentiful encounters with strangers, long drawn out dinners, a warm house, and endless adventures in the kitchen and elsewhere.

-khatidja.

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Chocolate Dipped Viennese Butter Cookies


Ingredients
80 grams icing sugar
270 grams butter
220 grams flour
75 grams corn flour (not corn starch or corn meal)
2 tsp vanilla
300 grams milk chocolate

*you'll need a piping tool fitted with 1.5-2 cm nozzle, a coupler, and a filling bag. The whole thing costs about $2.

In a bowl using a handmixer cream together the butter and sugar. Add in the 2 types of flour and mix until integrated. Add in the vanilla and transfer the batter into a piping bag set up with nozzle.

Pipe out onto a piece of parchment paper, and stick in an oven preheated to 170C for 15 mins or until golden brown. Remove, and allow to cool.

Wilde Oscar says: The cookies should have expanded to a good width. Thickness will depend on the type of nozzle you use. If they're too thin, the cookies'll be fragile and break when dipped in chocolate.

Use a double boiler (or if desperate, a microwave) to melt the chocolate. Let it cool a bit once melted, and dip cookies so that between a third and a half are coated. Remove and allow to cool.

1 comment:

  1. Looks yummy ... I think I'll amend the recipe so that the whole cookie is covered. :)

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