Cookies! Cookies! Cookies!

Last week I made Nutella sandwich cookies from a recipe I found on an Italian website. They were delicious. I doubled the batch, and I used the 2nd half of the dough today.

I did 12 with Trader Joe's Cherry Preserves inside (and topped them with an almond sliver) and filled the rest with Nutella. You just can't go wrong with Nutella.

These cookies are delicious warm, but also at room temperature, and they are awesome with coffee.

Butter Break-Ups

I managed to get back on schedule this week with the Salted Butter Break-Ups from Dorie Greenspan's Around My French Table. The dough was very easy to make, thanks to my new food processor :) I chilled it for about two hours in a square shape, and then bashed it a little with the rolling pin as suggested by the book, then rolled it out into a "rectangle."



I brushed on the egg wash with my brand new pastry brush from Sur La Table (yay!). Notice the gentle brush strokes and the expert artist's hold of the brush (haha.)











I then created the criss-cross pattern with the back of a fork. That was the most "difficult" (and by difficult, I mean time consuming) part of this recipe. The pictures tell all.





The final product was DELICIOUS.