Easter surprise inside cookies
Preparación: 30 min
Cooking time: 15 min
Yield: 24 cookies
Ingredients
- 250 g butter, room temperature
- 100 g confectioners' sugar
- 1 egg, small (40-50 g)
- 5 g salt
- 400 g flour
- 1 Tahitian vanilla pod
- red, purple, blue, green, yellow and orange gel food colouring
- non pareils or sprinkles
Directions
- Start by preparing the the cookie dough. Whisk butter and sugar until creamy.
- With a sharp knife, slit the vanilla pod lengthways. Scrape the seeds, and then stir in vanilla seeds, salt, and egg, until combined.
- Fold in flour and mix. Divide the dough in 3. Reserve one portion inside a plastic bag. Then take the two remainig portions, and divide each in 3 (you should have 6 portions in total). Colour each portion using a pinch of gel edible colouring (blue, purple, green, yellow, orange and red), and roll out each portion between two sheets of parchment paper, forming a rectangle. The thickness should be adjusted depending on the size of your cookie cutter. Mine was 3.6 cm, so each layer was rolled out to a thickness of 0.6 cm. If the dough is too sticky, chill in the refrigerator for 30 minutes before rolling, covered with plastic wrap.
- Pile up six rainbow sheets brushing egg white between the sheets. And let set in the freezer for 1 hour.
- Slice the rainbow sheet with a knife. The width should be slightly smaller than the height of your cookie cutter. And then cut eggs using the cookie cutter. Pile up the rainbow eggs applying egg white as a glue between them, and freeze for 1 hour.
- Then roll out the white dough we had reserved before, and cover the egg pile. Roll to form a cylinder, and freeze for 30 minutes.
- Brush the roll with egg white, and roll in a bed of rainbow non pareils. Freeze again for 30 minutes
- Slice the dough, and freeze again, whilst preheating the oven to 160 º C (320º F)
- Bake using a double baking sheet for 15-20 minutes
- Leet cool on a wire rack, and store in an airtight container
NOTES:
- I always use a double baking sheet to bake my cookies, which is the secret for a perfect browning. Using a double baking sheet, or stacking two baking sheets together avoid hot spots whilst cooking
- I have followed Eugenie's Kitchen idea for cooking these cookies. Please watch her video here
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