Salted Praline Langues De Chat Recipes

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.

LANGUES DE CHAT

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
• Butter and flour two baking sheets.
• Beat the butter, sugar, vanilla, and salt until pale and fluffy. Beat the egg whites for 1 minute, until they mound slightly. Add the egg whites and mix just enough to blend. Add the flour through a sieve, shaking it over the batter and folding it in quickly.
• Using a dinner knife, scoop up about 1 teaspoon batter and tap it onto the cookie sheet. Press the knife down onto the batter so you have a line 2 1/2 inches. Spread the batter on the sheet in this manner, leaving 2 inches between each cookie.
• Bake for 4-5 minutes in the middle of the oven, until the cookies have browned slightly at the edges. Remove with a metal spatula and cool on a rack. If the cookies harden before you take them off the sheet, return them to the oven to warm them.
• When the cookies have cooled, store them in an airtight container.

LANGUES-DE-CHAT

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F. Sift together flour and salt in a bowl.
• Put butter into the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment; mix on medium speed until pale and creamy. Mix in confectioners' sugar. Add eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Mix in vanilla. Fold in flour mixture.
• Transfer batter to a pastry bag fitted with a 3/8-inch plain round tip (such as Ateco #802). Pipe 2 3/4-inch lengths about 3/8 inch wide (the ends should be slightly wider than the center) onto baking sheets lined with parchment, spacing about 1 inch apart. (Batter should be refrigerated if not being used immediately.)
• Bake until just golden around edges, 10 to 12 minutes, rotating sheets halfway through. Let cool on sheets 3 minutes. Transfer to wire racks; let cool completely. Cookies can be stored in airtight containers at room temperature up to 3 days.
• Use a pastry bag fitted with a plain round tip to pipe lengths of batter in rows; squeeze a bit of extra dough on the ends of each, so that the ends are slightly wider than the centers.

LANGUES-DE-CHAT

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter 2 large baking sheets. Using electric mixer, beat butter and sugar in medium bowl until well blended. Beat in lemon peel and vanilla. Add egg whites and beat 30 seconds. Add flour and salt; beat just until blended
• Spoon batter into pastry bag fitted with 1/3-inch plain round tip. Pipe batter onto baking sheets in 2 1/2-inch-long strips, spacing 2 inches apart. Bake until edges are golden, about 10 minutes. Transfer cookies to racks; cool (cookies will crisp as they cool). (Can be made 2 days ahead. Store airtight at room temperature.).

SALTED PRALINE LANGUES DE CHAT

Steps:

• Make praline:
• Put a large sheet of foil on a heatproof work surface.
• Heat sugar in a 12-inch heavy skillet over medium heat, stirring with a fork to heat sugar evenly, until it starts to melt, then stop stirring and cook, swirling skillet occasionally so sugar melts evenly, until it is golden. Add toasted almonds, stirring until coated well, then carefully pour onto foil (mixture will spread) and cool completely, about 15 minutes. Peel praline off foil and chop with a large heavy knife. Transfer to a food processor and pulse until finely chopped.
• Make cookies:
• Preheat oven to 325°F with racks in upper and lower thirds. Line 2 large baking sheets with parchment paper.
• Whisk together flour and table salt. Pulse almonds with sugar in a food processor until finely ground.
• Beat butter and sugar mixture with an electric mixer until pale and fluffy, then beat in egg whites and extracts. At low speed, mix in flour mixture in 3 batches until just combined well.
• Transfer batter to pastry bag, then dab some batter under corners of parchment to secure to baking sheets. Pipe 6-inch-long strips (about 1/3 inch wide) 1 1/2 inches apart in 2 slanted rows (so they will fit) on each baking sheet.
• Bake until slightly puffed but still pale, 7 to 9 minutes, then sprinkle generously with praline and lightly with sea salt. Continue baking until cookies are baked through and golden-brown on edges, 7 to 11 minutes more. (Turn baking sheets if cookies are browning unevenly.) Slide parchment with cookies onto racks to cool completely (cookies will crisp as they cool).
• Form and bake more cookies on cooled baking sheets lined with fresh parchment.