Complicated!
A rose by any name is still a rose. A cookie by any of the above names is still a cookie[l1] . Possibly the easies and simplest cookie there is ever made.
I got a little rap on my knuckles from little sister yesterday, for not being true to my blogs name. True! True! True!
But my only excuse...who will eat what I bake? Too tempting, too sweet and too tasty. That is the same as too many calories....
So I was making low cal stuff! The next thing I know, my friends will be running away, screaming like banshees, the minute they see me with a platter in my hands. I so want to keep my friends, so instead of the platters, i’ll use Tupperware.
Did you know that ms-office considers Tupperware to be a proper noun? Instant caps!
Palmiers and Elephant Ears is what these cookies are called in the US and here in Incredible India ,more so Saddi Dilli these re known as French Hearts.
Imagine his ears...
To make these
Palmiers/Elephant Ears/French Hearts/Whatever Cookies
You need
1 sheet puff pastry (generally equal to 490 Gms)
1 cup sugar
1 tsp cinnamon powder
½ tspn butter
Yup, that’s all!
I pulled some strings here. I was in no mood to roll out and fold pastry to get 729 layers, so I sweet talked my neighbourhood baker to give me some. They make veg and non veg patties out of it everyday, so he was happy to oblige.
For those of you, who can find puff pastry in your supermarket aisle, yay! For the others, we will make puff pastry soon!
Ok, i got 400 Gms of pastry made with 250 Gms flour and 100 Gms butter. The rest is of course water, which btw is 0 calories.
As if you already did not know!
The first step, switch on your computer...no....the oven to 200C/390F.
Divide the dough into two parts.
Dust your worktop with flour and roll out half the puff pastry dough to 3/8th inch thickness.
Coat the surface with 1/4th of the melted butter, paint will be a better word! You just need the sugar mix to adhere to the pastry.
In a bowl, mix the cinnamon and the sugar well.
Decide which way to roll. I did hearts and elephant ears. The elephant ears were more like pinwheels, so rolled in one direction.
One log, slice into 3/8th inch thickness.
With a super sharp knife.
Place these on al foil. Trust me, you don’t want to omit this, you’ll end up scrubbing your baking tray till kingdom come.
Into the hot oven....7-8 minutes max.
Check, because sugar burns superfast. Once the pastry is light brown bring them out and make sure you taste them only when they have cooled down. Hot sugar can burn your tongue.
Next the hearts. Folded from both directions.....
When they meet in the centre...reminds you of an old fashioned camera reel. Pinched bottom.
Same drill....Al foil, oven, cool, hot etc...
My, my, you are a super cool learner.
Now go attack these cookies with a vengeance...the rolling bit was fun. And if you don’t get neat cuts, just pop the dough into the fridge for a while and then start again.ImagineDumbo's face in the middle....
Otherwise ...beating hearts...
And good enough for a small baby to bite into....
So what are you baking today???
Coming up...
Chocolate Fudge Cake
The one used to make the http://baketitude.blogspot.com/2011/11/brandy-drenched-black-forest-cake.html
Chocolate Fudge Cake
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