At home we can’t live without chocolate! Be it in tablets, cake, mousse or cookies! Now if the chocolate has a touch of mint, it’s irresistible! My Pechu loves After-Eights and he also likes to take cookies to the office so I resolved to mix the best of both worlds. I set to work and made these wonderful cookies I found in one of the most beautiful and tasty book ever had: Bolos & Boscoitos – Decorar com Magia, Annie Rigg, Mel Editores, Portugal.
My biggest fan, my Pechu, says they are delicious! He says they are as soft as brownies (he loves them!) in the inside but crunchy on the outside and that the mint cream is a great idea! Also they are beautiful with their doughnut sprinkles, just can’t stop eating them!
These cookies are easy to make and to eat, but they get eaten faster than they are made! In this recipe the temperature of the ingredients, of the cookies and the cream are very important so to obtain the desired results. For them to come out perfectly, take your time and be patient. Despite being laborious they deserve the time invested in them…
These cookies are easy to make and to eat, but they get eaten faster than they are made! In this recipe the temperature of the ingredients, of the cookies and the cream are very important so to obtain the desired results. For them to come out perfectly, take your time and be patient. Despite being laborious they deserve the time invested in them…
Little Kisses
Cookies
175 g of high quality baking chocolate in pieces
175 g of saltless butter
2 medium sized eggs
225 g of light brown sugar (mascabado)
250 g all purpouse flour
¾ teaspoon of yeast
A touch of salt
Place the chocolate pieces and butter into a bowl and put the bowl in a hot water bath until the mix becomes soft and uniform.
Mix the eggs with the sugar to obtain a whitish, light mix. Add the chocolate and mix until it’s soft.
Sift the flour with the yeast and salt, add to the previous mix until it’s uniform. Put in the fridge covered with plastic wrap at least for two hours. Once done, pre-heat the oven at 180º C (Gas 4).
Remove from the fridge molding them into nut sized balls. Place them on trays covered with greaseproof paper and take them to the oven, medium height for approximately 15 minutes or until the cookies are crunchy outside but soft inside (like brownies). Let them cool on the tray and them place them on a grill to completely cool down.
Mint cream
75 g of salt less butter
150 g of powder sugar
2 spoons of mint syrup (I used Carte D’Or)
In a large bowl, stir the butter until it becomes a soft cream. Gradually, sift the powder sugar into the cream mixing until it’s whitish and soft. Add the mint syrup mixing until it’s all uniform.
Once the cookies are cold and the cream is ready, sandwich the cookies together with the cream.
Decoration
200 g of high quality baking chocolate in pieces
Doughnut sprinkles
Place the chocolate pieces into a bowl and put the bowl in a hot water bath until it becomes soft.
Once the cookies are together, dip half of each cookie in the melted chocolate and sprinkle them. Let them rest on a grill.
Cookies
175 g of high quality baking chocolate in pieces
175 g of saltless butter
2 medium sized eggs
225 g of light brown sugar (mascabado)
250 g all purpouse flour
¾ teaspoon of yeast
A touch of salt
Place the chocolate pieces and butter into a bowl and put the bowl in a hot water bath until the mix becomes soft and uniform.
Mix the eggs with the sugar to obtain a whitish, light mix. Add the chocolate and mix until it’s soft.
Sift the flour with the yeast and salt, add to the previous mix until it’s uniform. Put in the fridge covered with plastic wrap at least for two hours. Once done, pre-heat the oven at 180º C (Gas 4).
Remove from the fridge molding them into nut sized balls. Place them on trays covered with greaseproof paper and take them to the oven, medium height for approximately 15 minutes or until the cookies are crunchy outside but soft inside (like brownies). Let them cool on the tray and them place them on a grill to completely cool down.
Mint cream
75 g of salt less butter
150 g of powder sugar
2 spoons of mint syrup (I used Carte D’Or)
In a large bowl, stir the butter until it becomes a soft cream. Gradually, sift the powder sugar into the cream mixing until it’s whitish and soft. Add the mint syrup mixing until it’s all uniform.
Once the cookies are cold and the cream is ready, sandwich the cookies together with the cream.
Decoration
200 g of high quality baking chocolate in pieces
Doughnut sprinkles
Place the chocolate pieces into a bowl and put the bowl in a hot water bath until it becomes soft.
Once the cookies are together, dip half of each cookie in the melted chocolate and sprinkle them. Let them rest on a grill.
ana, têm um aspecto delicioso! Que cozinheira me saiste! Um beijo enorme... a ver quando provo essas coisinhas boas que fazes! =) beijinho
ReplyDeleteOlá Diana!!
ReplyDeleteEstamos de regresso ao blog!!
Prometo muitas receitas novas e deliciosas!!
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