This Delicious Italian Canestrelli Cookies recipe or flowers cookies that melt in your mouth is a recipe of Italian cuisine much loved and loved by all.
Furthermore, this recipe is unique for its cooking technique. So, the eggs are not added fresh as in any other cookie dough, but the egg yolks are hard-boiled and passed through a sieve to add as finely as possible to the dough.
Also, the shape of the Flower is another feature in this recipe.
Also, you can try our Bullseye Cookies.
Ingredients
- 150 g of flour
- 100 g of cornstarch
- 75 g of icing sugar
- 150 g of butter
- 2 hard-boiled egg yolks
- Vanilla
- Lemon zest
- a pinch of salt
- a little baking powder
- icing sugar to decor them
Directions
- First, boil the eggs for 8 minutes and let them cool.
- Meanwhile, add the sifted flour, starch, and icing sugar to a bowl.
- Then, add the cold chopped butter and the aromas, vanilla, and grated lemon peel.
- Also, add a little salt and 1/2 teaspoon of cake baking powder.
- In the end, we will add the boiled egg yolks, passing through a sieve to finely ground.
- Knead the dough quickly, wrap it in a bag and leave it in the fridge for about 30 minutes to 1 hour.
- After that, we roll the dough with the help of a roller and a little flour up and down.
- Moreover, roll a layer with a thickness of 5-7 mm.
- Then, cut the biscuits with flower shapes as in the picture and put them into a pan lined with baking paper.
- Next, bake them for 10-12 minutes in a preheated oven at 180 degrees. Be careful that the biscuits do not get too dark in color.
- Once they are ready, take them out of the oven, let them cool a bit, and add powdered sugar on top.
Bon Appetit!
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