Chocolate Dipped Jam Filled Cats Tongues Recipes

CATS' TONGUES (COOKIES)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400*.
• Lightly grease baking sheets.
• Cream butter and sugar together.
• Add egg whites, one at a time, mixing well after each.
• Add flour and then vanilla, mixing well.
• If dough seems to soft, add a bit more flour.
• Force through a pastry bag or cookie press fitted with a medium star tip onto baking sheets, making cookies about 3 inches long.
• Bake for 10 minutes or until lightly browned.
• Cool on wire racks completely.
• If desired, make sandwich cookies by spreading with jam or melted chocolate, or be truly decadent by making jam filled sandwich cookies and then dipping in chocolate!

CHOCOLATE DIPPED JAM FILLED CATS' TONGUES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400*.
• Line cookie sheets with baking parchment.
• Cream butter on medium speed until light, about 2 minutes.
• Add sugar and blend together.
• Add vanilla (or zest), then egg and egg yolk;mix well.
• Sift flour over batter and incorporate.
• Batter will be thick.
• Spoon batter into pastry bag or decorator fitted with 1/2 inch round tip or medium star tip.
• Pipe 3 inch lengths of dough, about 2 inches apart, onto cookie sheets.
• Bake cookies in the center of the oven for 8 to 9 minutes, until golden brown around the edges.
• Let stand on cookie sheets 2 minutes, then remove to wire racks to cool completely.
• While cookies are cooling, prepare filling.
• In a saucepan, melt the jam with the lemon juice until it comes to a simmer.
• Brush the jam over flat side of half the cookies and top with remaining cookies, flat side touching the jam.
• Let cookies remain on racks in a cool place until jam has set.
• Dip one end of each cookie into melted chocolate and place on wax paper until chocolate hardens.
• If desired, sprinkle chocolate with chocolate or colored sprinkles (jimmies) before letting the chocolate set up.

LANGUES DE CHAT

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Lightly grease baking sheets.
• In a medium bowl, cream together butter and 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar until smooth. Beat in the egg whites one at a time until batter is light and fluffy. Stir in the vanilla. Mix in the flour just until blended. Dough will be a little stiff.
• Using a cookie press or a pastry bag with a medium star tip, press dough onto prepared baking sheet into 3-inch lengths, like a ladyfinger.
• Bake cookies in preheated oven until straw-colored, about 10 minutes. Cool on wire rack.
• When cookies are cool, dip one end of each cookie in melted chocolate and place on wax paper until chocolate hardens. Store in a cool place.

LANGUE DE CHAT (CAT'S TONGUE)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 150°C.
• Cream butter + sugar till fluffy. Sugar should melt into the butter.
• Gradually add egg whites bit by bit while blending. Mix in vanilla extract.
• Sift in flour + cornflour. Fold well. Mixture should turn into a paste-like texture.
• Place mixture into piping bag. (You may use a plastic/ziploc bag, put it into a tall glass as shown & pour in the mixture. This is my best mess-free method.).
• Pipe 2" strips onto tray that is lined with baking sheet.
• Bake for 150°C for 20mins or until the edges turn slightly brownish.
• Melt some coating chocolates under the double-boiler. Spread on the biscuit and sandwich another biscuit together. Serve! Recipe can make approximately 12-15 sandwiched biscuits.