They are prepared all over the world now . They are easy to make, pleasant to the eyes and delicious.
Petits Fours Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 stick unsalted butter at room temperature
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Jam or fruit preserves of your choice to assemble the cookies
- About 1/2 cup melted chocolate
Instructions
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In a bowl of a stand mixer, put butter and powdered sugar.
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Whisk until creamy then add the egg, salt, and vanilla extract.
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Whisk more for few minutes.
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Add flour and baking powder then mix everything together until well incorporated.
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Place the very soft sticky batter in a piping bag fitted with a large pastry star tip (about 1/2 inch).
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Pipe in a non stick baking pan.
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Pipe in the same spot by pressing down to obtain rosette shaped cookies.
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To shape the dough into shells, pipe a small amount of batter in one spot, then slide the piping bag down. Fix the end of the shell with your 2 fingers.
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Bake at 350°F preheated oven for 15 to 25 minutes or until golden.
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Let cool.
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Put a small amount of jam or fruit preserves on the base of one cookie then sandwich it with the other cookie.
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Dip the shell shaped cookies halfway or less into the melted chocolate.
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Let set.
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Enjoy.
Recipe Notes
- If you want crunchy cookies, add 1 tablespoon of milk powder to the batter.
- You can shape your cookies the way you want.
- You can dip your cookies in chocolate then in ground pistachios, almonds, peanuts,…etc.