Ischlers Orange Cookies
Recipe From What's For Lunch, Honey?
By Meeta K. Wolff
Prep Time: 55 min
Total Time: 70 minutes + resting time
Yields: 12 cookies
Ingredients
220g butter, at room temperature
1 egg
300g all-purpose flour + more for countertop
Pinch of fleur de sel
200g dark chocolate (75% cacao, melted over a water bath
120g icing sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla sugar
80g butter
200g dark chocolate (75% cacao, melted over a water bath
40g ground almonds
zest of 1 orange
80g icing sugar
Method
Pre-heat oven to 170C and line a baking tray with parchment paper.
Sieve flour into a bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a dough hook, add 220g butter in cubes, then add 120g sugar and vanilla sugar, egg and salt. Knead into a smooth dough, cover with plastic wrap and allow to rest for one hour.
Lightly dust the counter with some flour, then roll out the dough. Using a round cookie cuter cut out circles and place on the baking tray. Bake for 12 minutes.
In the meantime make the cream by whisking 80g butter and 80 g icing sugar until creamy and pale. Add the orange zest and 200g melted chocolate, mix until smooth. Finally incorporate the ground almonds.
Spread the chocolate cream on half of the cookies then cover with the remaining cookie. Dip the sandwich cookies in the 200g melted chocolate and allow to drip and dry on a wire rack.
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