Non-plus Ultra
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video tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p16wD_haYuA
- Ingredients
- Cookie dough :-
- 200gm All-purpose Flour
- 2Tbsp powdered sugar
- 2 sachets vanilla sugar
- 200gm butter, room temperature
- 2 egg yolks
- Meringue :-
- 2 egg-white
- a pinch of salt
- 200gm powdered sugar (I find that less sugar works too)
- 1tsp lemon juice
- Filling :
- 2-3 Tbsp jam of your choice, a more tart jam will work better to counter the sweetness of meringue
Method :-
1) In a bowl, put in the flour, powdered and vanilla sugar. Mix well. Next , crumble in the butter, use fingers to work butter in until crumbly texture. Then put in the egg yolks and knead the mixture until it becomes a dough. Let the dough rest in the fridge for 30 mins.
2) Pre-heat oven at 160`c.
3) After 30 mins , take dough out from fridge, roll dough out , thickness about 0,5cm . Use round cookie cutter to cut into shape and place on a lined baking dish.
4) Make meringue by beating egg white with a pinch of salt. Beat for 1 mins to get the egg white frothy. Then add about 50gm of sugar, start beating again, after another min. add lemon juice and another 50gm of sugar. Beat and add sugar gradually until you reach shinny and thick consistency. not too runny. Pipe meringue onto cookie and bake in the pre.heated oven for 10-15 mins until nice colour.
5) Let it cooled before filling with jam. It better to make these a day before serving.
Or to make ahead of time, keep cookies in air-tight container without filling. Keep in the pantry. Fill with jam before serving.
