cookies (recipe by Luca Montersino)

After the Christmas festivities, let me make a simple recipe: the cookies by Montersino, that I worked as a pastry dough instead of using a pastry bag to make little circles on the baking tray, as suggested by him.

HAPPY 2012 TO ALL OF YOU !!!

Ingredients for about 50 cookies

• 300 g butter at room temperature
• 225 g brown sugar
• 120 g free range eggs
• 30g honey
• 200 chocolate drops
• 450 g all purpose flour
• 6 g baking powder
• 1 vanilla bean
• 1 g salt

Preheat the oven to 180° 

Whip the butter with the brown sugar, the vanilla seeds, the honey and the salt. Pour the eggs one by one while the mixture is whipping at low speed; then add the flour sifted with the baking powder and finally the chocolate drops. Roll out the dough between two baking papers, flatten with a rolling pin into the desired thickness and then give the biscuits the shape you most prefer. Bake at 180° for about 15 minutes. Let cool on a rack. 

plum cake with white chocolate frosting

The secret not to make all choccolate drops fall in the bottom of the cake, you can find here in the point 3 and can be used in any other vs. recipe.


Ingredienti: 

• 150 g butter
• 250 g sugar
• 125 g chocolate drops 
• 125 g yogurt
• 350 g flour 00
• 3 eggs 
• 50 ml milk 
• 12 g baking powder
• 12 ml of rum
• 100 g white chocolate (for the frosting) 

Preheat oven to 170°.

1. In a bowl whisk very well the softened butter, sugar and and 25 g of yogurt using a wooden spoon. It must become a creamy.

2. Add a little at a time: the sifted flour, the eggs, milk, and the remaining yogurt; mix everything thoroughly with a wooden spoon.

3. In another bowl mix together the remaining flour (50g) sifted baking powder, chocolate drops and rum. Add them to the mixture stirring gently.

4. Pour the mixture into a mold for plum-cake, the size of 25x8 cm. Bake for about 50 minutes . It should be golden on the surface. Let cool.

5. In the meanwhile in a small saucepan melt white chocolate in a double boiler, let cool for a while; put hte plum-cake on a serving plate and decorate the top with the white chocolate frosting. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve.

If you prefer the chocolate drops cab be replaced by whole pistachios (same weight, same method).

plumcake con glassa al cioccolato bianco

Serves 8/10