15:07, 06 Sep 2023, author: Ermakova M.

Cookies "Tangerine sticks"

Name: Cookies \"Tangerine sticks\"
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 2 h
Total time: 2 h 10 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Australian
Ingredients: Butter (soft) - 250 g; Powdered sugar - 80 g; Potato starch - 2 tbsp. (without slide); Wheat flour - 300 g; Mandarin zest - 2 tbsp + some for decoration; Mandarin juice - 60 ml; Milk chocolate - 80 g

Delicate, crumbly cookies with a light aroma of tangerines and sweet chocolate icing.

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Probably, many of us got enough of tangerines during the New Year holidays and now these fragrant, sweet and bright fruits lie and “miss” them. But everything ingenious is simple. It seems that the usual shortcrust pastry, but adding juice and zest from a tangerine to it, we get cookies with the taste and aroma of the New Year in the form of sticks or fingers. I found this delicious idea on a food site in Australia.

In terms of structure, Mandarin Sticks cookies are similar to Baku Kurabye, but the dough is more liquid, which means that we will cool it twice: after kneading and after shaping the cookies, so that after baking we don’t get pancakes instead of sticks.

Prepare the ingredients: the butter must be softened in advance at room temperature. Depending on the size and juiciness of the tangerines, 3-4 pieces may be needed. Remove the zest with a fine grater, and squeeze the juice out of the pulp. The dough is not very sweet, so milk chocolate icing will add sweetness, but it can be replaced with bitter if desired.

Cookies "Tangerine sticks"

Кухня: Australian, выпечка, калории: 433, время приготовления: 02:10

Ингредиенты

Butter (soft) - 250 g

Powdered sugar - 80 g

Potato starch - 2 tbsp. (without slide)

Wheat flour - 300 g

Mandarin zest - 2 tbsp + some for decoration

Mandarin juice - 60 ml

Milk chocolate - 80 g

Рецепт

1. Put soft butter and powdered sugar in a deep bowl. Mash the ingredients with a spatula, and then whisk until fluffy.

2. You can also use a mixer, but a spatula does an excellent job. Add tangerine zest to the whipped mass.

3. Pour in tangerine juice, you can not filter it, but use it with pulp.

4. Stir the juice and zest into the oil mixture, then sift the flour with starch into a bowl.

5. Let's start kneading the dough first with a spatula, and then continue kneading with our hands. Once the flour and starch have combined with the butter-tangerine mixture, stop kneading. It turned out a very soft dough, from which until the sticks are obtained. We cover the bowl with the dough and put it in the refrigerator for 1-1.5 hours.

6. Prepare a large baking sheet, cover it with baking parchment. There are a lot of cookies. I deposited the dough from a pastry bag without a nozzle with chopsticks of 15 cm each, and I got 24 pieces. When forming cookies, leave a place between the blanks, because the sticks will spread a little in the oven. We remove the baking sheet with the blanks in a cold place for 30 minutes, but for now we preheat the oven to 180 degrees.

7. Bake the sticks in a preheated oven for about 15 minutes or until done. The cookies won't brown too much, just become golden around the edges. While the cookies are baking, melt the milk chocolate on a steam bath, after chopping it with a knife. Let the finished cookies cool completely on a baking sheet, then decorate it with a mesh of melted chocolate and a small amount of zest. We did not temper the chocolate, which means that at room temperature it will not completely harden, it will stain our fingers a little. I took the baking sheet to a cold place where the chocolate hardened in 15 minutes.

8. Cookies "Tangerine sticks" are ready, you can serve them with a cup of aromatic coffee.

9. Delicate, crumbly, without the addition of baking powder and eggs, with the aroma of the New Year.

10. Bon appetit!