Fall Leaf Cookies
Serves: 3
Ewell Douglas
1 January 1970
Based on User reviews:
47
Spice
49
Sweetness
48
Sourness
39
mins
Prep time (avg)
4.8
Difficulty
Ingredients:
1 cup
All-Purpose Flour3 tbsps
Cocoa Powder (dutch-process)2 cup
Sugar (confectioners')4 large
Egg White (at room temperature)Directions:
1
Heat oven to 400 degrees F
2
Make chocolate and white tuile batters according to following recipes
3
Trace a leaf onto a large, flexible plastic lid, such as one from a coffee can
4
Using scissors, cut lip from lid
5
With a utility knife, cut out the leaf shape to make a stencil
6
Place nonstick baking mat or parchment paper on top of a baking sheet, and place stencil on mat
7
Using a small offset spatula, spread a thin layer of chocolate batter over stencil; carefully lift up stencil
8
Repeat, making more leaves, spacing evenly on baking mat
9
Transfer 1/2 cup white batter into a pastry bag fitted with a #2 tip
10
Pipe white veins onto chocolate leaves
11
Bake 4 minutes
12
Using spatula, drape leaves over rolling pin to cool
13
Repeat process to make 50 cookies, reserving 1/2 cup chocolate batter
14
Repeat step 2 with white batter, using reserved chocolate batter for piping
15
Sift flour with cocoa, and set aside
16
In the bowl of an electric standing mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat butter and sugar on medium until well-combined, about 2 minutes
17
Beat in egg whites, 1 at a time, beating for 4 minutes after each addition
18
Add the flour-and-cocoa mixture, and mix until just combined
19
Reserve 1/2 cup batter; place in a pastry bag fitted with an #2 tip, and set aside for piping white tuile cookies
20
Sift flour into a mixing bowl, and set aside
21
In the bowl of an electric standing mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat butter and sugar on medium, until well-combined, about 2 minutes
22
Beat in egg whites, 1 at a time, beating for 4 minutes after each addition
23
Add the reserved flour, and mix until just combined
24
Reserve 1/2 cup batter; place in a pastry bag fitted with a #2 tip, and set aside for piping chocolate tuile cookies